Boys In The Cave

We invite the wise men of the community Imran and Shihab onto our podcast to talk about their Muslim app called 'Go Pray!'. We also discuss all things tech, deen, life and career related. Imran and Shihab are founding members of Go Pray!, app that connects Muslims to prayer places. They are also members of SWMA, who are sponsors of Boys In The Cave. SWMA is a NFP group focused on empowering Muslim youth to give back to the community. Hosts : Tanzim & Josh Please email us your comments, feedback, and questions at: info@boysinthecave.com, and leave a review and 5-star rating on iTunes! Check out our website - boysinthecave.com Follow us on: Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/boysinthecave/ Instagram – @boysinthecave Twitter - @boysinthecave Become a Patreon today! https://www.patreon.com/boysinthecave -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Go Pray! Online Visibility https://gopray.com.au/ https://www.facebook.com/goprayapp/ Imran's Online Visibility: https://www.facebook.com/imranc https://twitter.com/imranlfc -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Modernity, artistic expression, design, creativity & Islam. Peter Gould joins us in the Cave! Peter Gould is a designer, creative entrepreneur and artist. He is the Design Executive Officer at Zileej. Hosts : Tanzim & Rafael Please email us your comments, feedback, and questions at: info@boysinthecave.com, and leave a review and 5-star rating on iTunes! Check out our website - boysinthecave.com Follow us on: Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/boysinthecave/ Instagram – @boysinthecave Twitter - @boysinthecave Become a Patreon today! https://www.patreon.com/boysinthecave -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Gould's Online Visibility: http://peter-gould.com/ https://www.instagram.com/petergouldart/ https://www.facebook.com/petergouldart/ https://twitter.com/petergouldart -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dina Tokio, Muslim Women, Hijab, the YouTube scene and Muslim Businesses. We touch all bases in this round table discussion with Monika Sarker. Monika Sarker is a YouTuber for HijabiBengaliSisters, and is also a Photographer and Videographer. Hosts : Tanzim, Rafael, Josh & Nabila Please email us your comments, feedback, and questions at: info@boysinthecave.com, and leave a review and 5-star rating on iTunes! Check out our website - boysinthecave.com Follow us on: Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/boysinthecave/ Instagram – @boysinthecave Twitter - @boysinthecave Become a Patreon today! https://www.patreon.com/boysinthecave -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monika Sarker's Online Visibility: https://www.youtube.com/user/HijabiBengaliSisters https://www.facebook.com/hijabibengalisisters/ https://twitter.com/HBS_Sisters -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Speakers Corner UK, the Evolution of dawah, materialism, Atheism, how to attain Truth and Theory of Evolution. We touch all bases with Subboor Ahmad! Subboor Ahmad is the head of Mission Dawah & an instructor and lecturer for iERA. He is a student of Islamic thought & studies the philosophy of biology. Hosts : Tanzim, Rafael & Josh Please email us your comments, feedback, and questions at: info@boysinthecave.com, and leave a review and 5-star rating on iTunes! Check out our website - boysinthecave.com Follow us on: Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/boysinthecave/ Instagram – @boysinthecave Twitter - @boysinthecave Become a Patreon today! https://www.patreon.com/boysinthecave -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subboor Ahmad's Online Visibility: https://www.facebook.com/subboor.ahmad/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Purchase The Divine Reality by Hamza Tzortzis http://www.hamzatzortzis.com/thedivinereality-2/

Nationalism, Khashoggi, Syria, Geo-politics of Turkey and lets not forget the infamous Maajid Nawaz & Quilliam Foundation. We touch all bases in this monster episode featuring our dear Bangali Brother Dilly Hussain! Dilly Hussain is the deputy editor of British Muslim news site 5Pillars. He is also a blogger for the Huffington Post UK, a freelance contributor for Al Jazeera English, the Ceasefire Magazine, the Middle East Eye and the Foreign Policy Journal. Hosts : Tanzim, Rafael & Josh Please email us your comments, feedback, and questions at: info@boysinthecave.com, and leave a review and 5-star rating on iTunes! Check out our website - boysinthecave.com Follow us on: Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/boysinthecave/ Instagram – @boysinthecave Twitter - @boysinthecave Become a Patreon today! https://www.patreon.com/boysinthecave -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dilly Hussain's Online Visibility: https://www.facebook.com/dilly.hussain88/ https://www.facebook.com/dillysdesk/ Twitter: @DillyHussain88 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Our dear brother Ahmed Karat joins the Boys In The Cave. We delve into archery in the Islamic tradition, veganism, meat consumption, hunting, and Ottoman history. Ahmed Karat is the President of the Maydaan Archery Club Australia. Hosts : Tanzim & Josh Please email us your comments, feedback, and questions at: info@boysinthecave.com, and leave a review and 5-star rating on iTunes! Check out our website - boysinthecave.com Follow us on: Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/boysinthecave/ Instagram – @boysinthecave Twitter - @boysinthecave Become a Patreon today! https://www.patreon.com/boysinthecave -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out Maydaan Archery's page! https://www.facebook.com/maydaanarchery/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dr. Ghilan returns back home to the Cave! We delve into veganism, what is true reality, how rationality and science alone cannot lead to real Truth, why Allah created Hell-fire, and the state of the Muslim world in today's day and age. Dr. Ghilan is a neuroscientist, Islamic lecturer, YouTuber, podcaster, writer and is currently studying Medicine at The University of Queensland. Check out our video of this episode on YouTube! Hosts : Tanzim, Rafael & Josh Please email us your comments, feedback, and questions at: info@boysinthecave.com, and leave a review and 5-star rating on iTunes! Check out our website - boysinthecave.com Follow us on: Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/boysinthecave/ Instagram – @boysinthecave Twitter - @boysinthecave Become a Patreon today! https://www.patreon.com/boysinthecave -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Ghilan's Online Visibility: AndalusOnline.org - Join the Andalus Book Club! Support Dr Ghilan on his patreon. https://www.patreon.com/MohamedGhilan Search for "Mohamed Ghilan" in iTunes and subscribe to his podcast. Twitter: @MohamedGhilan Dr. Mohamed Ghilan is a Canadian Muslim originally born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to parents from Sudanese and Yemeni backgrounds. He attended high school after immigrating to Canada in Vancouver, British Columbia. Eventually, Mohamed moved to Victoria where he obtained a B.Sc. with a major in microbiology (honours) and a minor in business administration. In 2007, Mohamed began his full-time studies in the Islamic Tradition after having made connections with several Muslim scholars. He has been consistently travelling over the past years to spend intensive extended periods studying various aspects of the Islamic sciences relating to Theology and Creed, Jurisprudence, Hadith, Foundational Principles (Usool), Arabic, Poetry, spiritual purification, and Qur'anic sciences. Mohamed has previously given lectures on the biography of the Prophet Muhammed peace be upon him, Fundamentalism in Islam, Islam and science, the message of Islam, Jesus in the Qur'an, in addition to others. He has also taught an introductory course on Islamic Jurisprudence according to the Maliki School as well as an introductory course on Islamic Theology ('Aqeedah). In 2015, Mohamed earned a PhD in neuroscience at the University of Victoria, where he studied synaptic plasticity in Huntington's disease, as well as the effects and molecular mechanisms of stress on the brain in Fragile X syndrome. He hopes his research can eventually be used to develop new therapies can be used to assist individual with movement disorders or intellectual disabilities. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [11:00] Introducing Dr Mohamed Ghilan [12:30] Dr Ghilan's time after touching down in Sydney [14:00] Some Sahaba didn't slaughter meat on Eid-ul-Adha [14:47] Dr Mohamed Ghilan's article on Veganism [15:00] Separation of the legal from the ethical when it comes to slaughtering meat in Islam. [16:30] Taking on the attributes of what we eat [18:00] The Prophet PBUH's relationship with animals and meat [21:30] As a Muslim how do you respond to an Atheist who says there is no hidden meaning to anything in regards to events that play out in life? [26:00] Nature of quality and quantity [29:00] Nature of knowledge being bound by time, space and science being only an instrumentalising tool. [31:00] Truth based on experiential knowledge. [36:00] Religious people are the worst salespeople [36:30] Mind is powerful that it can rationalise something that we already don't believe in. [37:23] Essence of rationality, rationality can be welded to different ends, can rationality be purely be used to find Truth? [40:00] Why is there so much hype of science in the modern world and the nature of technology. [48:40] Why did Allah create the universe when he already knew only a few people would be Believers and go Jannah whereas the rest will be going to Jahannam? Doesn't that mean he is unjust? [56:00] How should Muslims engage with the society, civic, political system? [1:06:00] Muslims need to be more creative in regards to how they approach the world.

The Mad Mamluks from America invite Tanzim & Josh onto their podcast to make a special announcement!

It is tough being a student of knowledge whilst dealing with the modern world. So we talk to Ustadh Suved about how to seek ilm in today's day and age, juggling the 9-5 work hustle in the process, differences between the traditional Islamic way of seeking knowledge vs. the university scene and how a layman Muslim can gain more rewards than The Sahaba. Suved studies Commerce at University of Sydney, is a teacher of Hadith sciences. He is prominent in the Sydney MSA circles giving talks and lectures at Universities. Most importantly he is a dear friend of ours. Please email us your comments, feedback, and questions at: boysinthecave@gmail.com, and leave a review and 5-star rating on iTunes! Follow us on: Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/boysinthecave/ Instagram – @boysinthecave Donate to our patreon account: patreon.com/boysinthecave -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Suved's Online Visibility: https://www.facebook.com/Suved.Siddiqui -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shownotes [2:00] The Work Life hustle [5:00] How did Suved come to the point of studying traditional Islam? [6:15] Introducing Suved [10:30] Suved's journey about learning biographies of the Scholars [15:20] Is the term "aalim" given to people more easily in this day and age compared to the past? [19:50] How can you proper study Islamic knowledge whilst doing so in the Modern day and age alongside the 9-5 work life hustle for e.g. [26:30] Is the best way to teach Islamic knowledge through the traditional way (i.e. knee to knee), and if so how can we implement this style on a wider scale in today's day and age? [31:22] Is Islamic knowledge decreasing due to the university style of knowledge being transmitted? [33:39] How would we encourage people to get into Islamic tradition? [39:00] Where should you go to acquaint yourself with the Islamic tradition? [43:53] Is it permissible for a Ilm seeker to put a pause on seeking knowledge as life gets hectic? [50:57] How big of a role is rote memorisation in studying Islamic sciences? [55:55] If you want to be studying the Deen overseas in what ways can we fund it to make it happen? [1:02:00] The tough lives of a shaykh [1:08:00] availability of resources online which makes more people intrigued about studying the deen [1:12:00] Can a lay Muslim get immense rewards compared to a scholar of Islam? Our experiences being layman Muslim in the workplace. [1:39:00] What do we aim to achieve as a goal after we have acquired the Islamic knowledge we need?

How we look at the world can be broken into power dynamics. We talk with Yassir Morsi about racism, power structures, feminism and oppression. Yassir Morsi's main area of research is the critical analysis of contemporary racism and Islamophobia. He is a regular contributor to The Guardian. He was a lecturer at RMIT University in Melbourne and now he is currently lecturer at La Trobe University. His recent book which he released is titled 'Radical Skin, Moderate Masks'. Please email us your comments, feedback, and questions at: boysinthecave@gmail.com, and leave a review and 5-star rating on iTunes! Follow us on: Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/boysinthecave/ Instagram – @boysinthecave Donate to our patreon account: patreon.com/boysinthecave -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yassir Morsi's Online Visibility: Twitter: @YMorsi -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shownotes [2:00] Introduction of Yassir Morsi [2:48] Boys In The Caves' experience with Yassir [3:30] Muslim community adapting and having conversations [5:00] Tanzim's experience with Yassir Morsi's ideas on Samarqand Facebook page and being exposed to different ideas when getting into the Deen. [8:15] Why do you think racism is such a central issue for muslims to be aware of and understand thoroughly? [11:45] In Yassir's book 'Radical Skin, Moderate Masks' the terms 'apollonian' and the 'dionysian', the two different elements to how we see racism, are discussed. Dionysian is the brute force of the europeans subjugating the rest of the world, and apollonian is how they present themselves as beyond racism now where all it is good, when it's dyonisian violence that created the societies we live in today. [14:30] Racism is modernity. The condition of the world is racism. [15:50] How does racism trickle down to Muslims? Is that what is called Islamophobia? [17:00] Why do you think race is given such importance to uncover the oppressions of the world? E.g. people may say economic reasons may the reason for certain oppressions in the world. [19:35] In regards to power isn't expansionist Jihad by Muslims be the same as colonialism by the Europeans? [22:20] Some people try to make all violence throughout history the same e.g. comparing Ottomans to the Europeans who colonised lands. [24:25] People feeding into the identity politics. [26:20] Dynamics of violence in a Muslim context. [30:00] The effects of poorly run countries leading to worser conditions for people. [31:30] Being short sighted and blaming countries current climate on themselves rather than looking at the structures that were put in place. [36:30] Joe Rogan talking about inbreeding amongst Muslims being the reason for ISIS coming about. [37:30] Muslims falling back on "racism not being part of the religion" [42:00] Making statements about how Islam gave rights to women but not actually doing anything in practice to live up to that statement. [51:10] To what extent can Muslim brothers use theories external to Islam? [56:20] Just because concepts stem from the West does it mean we can't use it in Islam? [1:00:00] Double standards when it comes to policing Brothers and then the sisters in Islam [1:03:57] Differentiating people who speak about feminism like Daniel H with people like Yassir Morsi. [1:14:50] We hear all these terms such as conservative muslim, fundamental muslim, or moderate/good muslim used by non-muslims to frame us. What are the implications of these terms - like we know we shouldn't use them, because that's how they define us. [1:16:57] If you could hang out with three people, who influenced you during your studies, in a Cave who would it be?