The Wird

Hasnat Ali & Tamim Sookoor
  • 4,3 (6)
  • Islam

What does success look like when faith leads the way? Every visible achievement rests on something invisible; a practice repeated daily, long before anyone was watching. Wird is an ancient word for a well or watering hole on a desert route: the place a caravan returned to for water they couldn't cross without. It came to mean the daily devotion a person returns to — spiritual sustenance drawn from the same kind of well. And wārid, from the same root, is what comes to meet you there. The Wird is a conversation series about that exchange. We sit with people from all walks of life — surgeons and scholars, filmmakers and artists, teachers and builders — and we look past the income and the accolades to the practice underneath. Each episode moves through three things: The Journey — the turning points that actually changed the trajectory. The Practice — the daily habits, systems, and wird that hold it all together. The Future — the challenges facing the Ummah, and concrete ways forward. Thoughtful, hopeful, and oriented around ihsan. Man laysa lahu wird, laysa lahu wārid. …whoever has no wird, has no wārid.

Épisodes

  1. 17 août

    Beyond the Page: Knowledge Lived — Professor Hernán Guadalupe

    Hernán Guadalupe became Muslim on the morning of September 11th, 2001, in a dorm room, minutes after the towers came down across the water. That's the part people know about him. This conversation is about the twenty-five years since. He's an engineer who'll tell you he isn't a technical person; what he actually does is find what people are capable of and get them there. He runs a Brazilian jiu-jitsu school. He co-founded Hablamos Islam, building Islamic resources in Spanish. He went to Egypt intending to study at al-Azhar and came home before he started. What makes this episode unusual is that he doesn't present a practice that worked. He describes a plateau; a stretch where he did the minimum and told himself it was enough, and only in the last two or three years has he started climbing back. Through dhikr. Through a set of prayer beads he'd avoided on principle. Through al-Ghazali, at an age when it finally landed. An imam told him something that undid him: that he'd learned a little knowledge, but he was actually living it. Chapters 00:00 What the wird is 01:59 How he defines success 04:40 Ecuador, Jersey City, and his parents' definition 07:52 The zeal of a new convert 10:33 His father's question: "Why now?" 13:13 Why he waited, and what changed that morning 16:26 Altar boy: faith and logic in conflict 20:11 Losing a community 22:51 "I didn't convert for a community" 25:00 Starting Hablamos Islam 28:45 Latino Muslims since the 1930s 30:53 You don't have to change your name 33:01 An imam from Ecuador, and a turning-point Ramadan 36:46 Egypt: what he learned without the language 40:31 Dar Al-Salam, and finding jiu-jitsu 44:16 Roll Star, and a father crying on the phone 46:56 "Whatever you're meant to make, you're gonna make" 4 9:05 Hitting a plateau 50:41 Dhikr, and the beads he avoided 52:49 The sky looks different now 54:26 Al-Ghazali cleaning the floors

    Beyond the Page: Knowledge Lived — Professor Hernán Guadalupe

  2. 3 août

    From Restrictions to Openings - Khaled Helmi

    Khalid Helmi spent 23 years in Tech at the Social Security Administration. Finance was the thing he actually loved, but every path into it ran through something he wasn't comfortable with. So he kept narrowing: out of most stocks, into gold, into real estate, and eventually into a corner of the energy market almost nobody knows exists. What he found is that the narrowing was the opening. "That restriction on myself made me open up my mind to other opportunities." In 2025 he took a one-time federal resignation offer, walked away from a stable job in his mid-forties, and went full-time on Date Palm Resources. But the part we came for is smaller. Every morning: a short du'a, and about five minutes of Quran. He's clear that he can't tell you what it's produced; only that he trusts it has. We talk about: — Monopoly money, muscle men, and what childhood play predicts — Tripling his mother's IRA in the dot-com bubble, then losing all of it — Why he left traditional finance before he ever entered it — Mineral rights: how owning what's under the ground pays you when someone drills — Cold-calling a stranger from a decade-old newspaper article, and where that call led — The first year of losses, and the one deal that turned it — Taking the leap at 45, against nearly everyone's advice — Five minutes of Quran, and calendar reminders for du'a he doesn't want to forget — Success measured against a Galaga high score — Why Allah's generosity means you don't have to knock down anyone else's tower Man laysa lahu wird, laysa lahu wārid.

    From Restrictions to Openings - Khaled Helmi

  3. Bande-annonce saison 1

    What is the wird?

    The Wird Intro Whoever has no 'wird' has no 'waarid'... مَنْ لَيْسَ لَهُ وِرْدٌ لَيْسَ لَهُ وَارِد

    What is the wird?

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À propos

What does success look like when faith leads the way? Every visible achievement rests on something invisible; a practice repeated daily, long before anyone was watching. Wird is an ancient word for a well or watering hole on a desert route: the place a caravan returned to for water they couldn't cross without. It came to mean the daily devotion a person returns to — spiritual sustenance drawn from the same kind of well. And wārid, from the same root, is what comes to meet you there. The Wird is a conversation series about that exchange. We sit with people from all walks of life — surgeons and scholars, filmmakers and artists, teachers and builders — and we look past the income and the accolades to the practice underneath. Each episode moves through three things: The Journey — the turning points that actually changed the trajectory. The Practice — the daily habits, systems, and wird that hold it all together. The Future — the challenges facing the Ummah, and concrete ways forward. Thoughtful, hopeful, and oriented around ihsan. Man laysa lahu wird, laysa lahu wārid. …whoever has no wird, has no wārid.

Informations

  • Création
    Hasnat Ali & Tamim Sookoor
  • Années d’activité
    2026
  • Épisodes
    3
  • Classification
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  • Copyright
    © The Wird 2026
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