Episode 7

Part 2 - The Voluntary Journey: Surah al-Fatihah and The Choices We Make in Our Daily Life

The Voluntary Journey means the choices that we make in our daily life.

What informs our choices and to what extent do our choices reflect our al-Fatihah informed understanding of being on an involuntary journey?

In this episode, we look at the second part of Surah al-Fatihah and what it tells us about who we are and the choices we make.

We also look at the vastness of the knowledge that it contains by mentioning the 8 Quranic themes and the 14 branches of philosophy in it.

However...perhaps the greatest statement about Surah al-Fatihah is reflected in what is often the most overlooked aspect of it. Tune in to find out what that is.

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Left or Right? The Straight Path Please
An overview, analysis and critique of contemporary left and right wing ideologies from the perspective of the Qur’anic Straight Path metaphor and the Islamic scholarly and spiritual tradition. For women listeners only.

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MISK Women

Umm Abdullah is the developer of MISK Women at the Muslim Institute for Sacred Knowledge and is a student of the Islamic Scholarly and Spiritual Tradition. She presents podcasts, Zoom classes and courses focusing on developing English-speaking Muslim womens' textual competence through the engagement of sacred texts and contextual competence through analysis and critique of the modern world from an Islamic perspective.