Muslim Founder
Muslim Founder
Podcast Description
Conversations with leaders who have built successful companies and organisations.
Our mission is to inspire Muslims to build things that empower the ummah.
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The podcast covers themes such as entrepreneurship, personal empowerment, and Islamic values with episodes exploring topics like the transition from traditional careers to entrepreneurship, social media's role in business, and building a community that supports Muslim entrepreneurs.
Conversations with leaders who have built successful companies and organisations.
Our mission is to inspire Muslims to build things that empower the ummah.
Iqbal Nasim is the former CEO of the National Zakat Foundation.
He studied economics at Cambridge before going into investment banking, then left a seven-figure package to build NZF, transforming how Muslims across the country give their zakat.
He's the founder of Transform My Prayer, helping Muslims connect with their salah, and the Last Day Leadership program, helping them find purpose.
Over the past year, his podcast ”In Good Faith” has become a home for the conversations most people avoid
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0:00 Intro
1:25 ”There's no such thing as Islam”
3:38 What does the Quran say on this?
5:09 The misunderstanding of the word ”Islam”
8:23 How we lost the original meaning
10:33 The trap of ”Islamic everything”
13:07 Why ”non-Muslim” is a dehumanizing word
15:57 Do you believe in Allah because you're ”Muslim”?
20:40 Would a non-Muslim really not understand halal?
26:47 Are Islamic schools a help or a harm?
30:05 The hard lines we draw between ”us” and ”them”
32:29 ”The Muslim ummah is a complete myth”
36:42 Muslim pride & the obsession with ”Muslim power”
45:01 ”There is no ummah” – so what do you belong to?
49:12 ”Why should anyone even care about this?”
52:27 The real harms of clinging to the label
54:38 What keeps Iqbal up at night: NDEs & psychedelics
57:48 Panentheism
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