Book Talk: Hadith Transmission and Confession...

Can mourning become a pathway to the divine? Has the modern world sanitised death, and does Muharram insist we don’t look away?Drawing from his forthcoming book Senses of Mourning, Dr Babak Rahimi of UC San Diego asks a question many have wondered, but few have explored: why do S ...  Show more

Dr Nisha explores how digital technologies are reshaping religious life in contemporary India. Challenging the strict divide between the secular and the religious, she argues that digital media has given rise to new hybrid forms of belief, practice, and spiritual experience. 

In this episode, Shaykh Faraz Rabbani covers hadiths twenty-seven to thirty from Imam Nabahani’s set of hadiths on the virtues of the Qur’an and its recitation. In hadith twenty-seven, Al Bara’ ibn Azib (May Allah Be Pleased With Him) relates hearing the recitation of th ...

Hazrat Ali ibn Abi Talib is one of the most important spiritual and intellectual authorities in Islam after the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). He was the son-in-law and cousin of the Prophet, the fourth of the four ‘rightly guided caliphs’ who led the nascent Muslim community, and the ...  Show more

In this podcast Shaykh Faraz Rabbani continues with the text, “Blameworthy Traits and Their Cure” (‘Uyub al-Nafs wa Mudawatuha) by Imam Abu Abdulrahman al-Sulami (died 412 A.H.). This work deals with states of the self, and how to rid oneself from blameworthy traits. In this e ...

Have we truly understood the life of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)? In this episode, we explore the Seerah of Rasul Allah (saww) and how it differs from his Sunnah, the Quran, and the world of Hadith. Our esteemed guest, Sayed Ali Imran, joins us from Canada to discuss how the Seera ...