The Wird

Hasnat Ali & Tamim Sookoor
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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.

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  1. 5시간 전

    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

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    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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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.

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    Hasnat Ali & Tamim Sookoor
  • 방송 연도
    2026년
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