The Ansari Podcast: w. ILIA Founder Ayman Nassar goes through his life journey, the lessons he learned from youth working on the ground, the behind the scenes for what happens with troubled children, the mistakes parents make in involvement, the biggest regret he's had, the youth he couldn't save and; instead, lost. And what made him decide to found ILIA and help Muslim Kids. #muslim #teenager #mentalhealth #life #islam The Ansari Podcast: Ayman Nassar narrates the stories of the young Muslim li...
Aug 08, 2022•1 hr 8 min
The Ansari Podcast w. Mahmoud Elansary. Chaplain Sondos Khosaki takes you through her stories. Like about a a hopeless agnostic who was coming close to his time of death, the most common regrets she hears from those dying, an emotional experience that resonates with her till today, the difference between Muslim and Non-Muslim patients. What it's like to experience life and death on a daily basis in a non-Muslim world. And how pain is Sacred.
Jul 26, 2022•1 hr 23 min
The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Mr. Nihad Awad take us through the journey for how and why Nihad Awad went from a poor Palestinian refugee in Jordan, to the most powerful Muslim in America. They discuss Guantanamo Bay, The Patriot Act, Manufactured Terrorism by the FBI, Palestine and Israel, and the Western Media vs Muslims.
Jul 04, 2022•1 hr 9 min
The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Dr. Hernan Guadalupe discuss his journey to becoming Muslim, especially on the day of 9/11. they discuss What kind of internal conflicts Dr. Hernan had before and after becoming Muslim. They discuss the reaction of his community of his conversion during 9/11. They discuss how his brother, mother and father followed in his foot steps and all became Muslim shortly after. They discuss his new struggles that arise as a newly minted Muslim American Frat Boy. A...
Jun 20, 2022•1 hr 44 min
The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Hamzah Raza discuss the Argument of "Necessary Existence" How God is a necessary cause They break down the 3 categories of existence in the universe The idea of idea the soul in Islamic philosophy vs. Western Philosophy and how islam answers the trolley problem They discuss the "fine tuning" argument and its refutation They ponder over why God cares so much about what we do if we're not important? They ponder of why God demands for us to worship him and a...
Jun 06, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Season 4Ep. 1
The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and his friend Kelly discuss the holy Trinity, the relationship between Faith and using reason/logic, the purpose of humanity in the Islamic perspective. Kelly asks What halal and Haram are in Islam and the story behind praying in Islam. They finally discuss the corruption found in Christianity.
May 17, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 40
The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Shehab Hady discuss the strategies, plans, schedule and different techniques a Muslim can use in order to work out during Ramadan and maintain a healthy life. They discuss when to work out during Ramadan. They discuss how to work out during Ramadan. they discuss what your mentality and goals for your body should be for Ramadan. They discuss what you should eat during Ramadan in order to lose weight, gain weight, or maintain weight during Ramadan as a Musl...
Apr 05, 2022•43 min•Ep. 39
The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Osly Melendez break down the 5 types of people entering Ramadan, The Sexer, The Partier, The Smoker, The Converter, and the Nicotiner. They Discuss how Non-practicing Muslims and Non-Muslims who are wanting to observe Ramadan should conduct themselves in sexual relations with their significant other, specifically if they're not married to them. They talk about How to purify yourself in Islam after sex, the requirements for your fast to count during ramada...
Mar 28, 2022•54 min•Season 3Ep. 15
The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Attorney Mohamed Al - Hamdani discuss identity and some of the history of Islam in America, how Islam doesn't let slavery thrive. Islam is deeply anti-slavery. They discuss getting married to non-Muslim women and Al Hamdani's own experience with that. They talk about Islam being as American as apple pie. And how undocumented Americans "illegal immigrants" are the backbone of this country. They talk about Mohamed's own struggle growing up as an Iraqi refug...
Mar 15, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 3Ep. 14
The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary, Bilal and Aymene discuss what role will Muslims play in the geopolitical atmosphere of modern times and what will the future hold for Muslim countries. They talk about what needs to change within every Muslim in order for Allah to bless us as an ummah. They talk about why we ended up in the state were in as Muslims today, what the state of Muslims today are, and how to get out of it. They talk about this generation of Muslims being the next generation to cha...
Mar 01, 2022•41 min•Season 3Ep. 13
The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary calls out our Muslim Leaders and some of their incompetencies. He calls out Saudi Arabia and Iran for their crimes in Yemen. He calls out the amount of money spent on the Kaaba and the hypocrisy of it. He ponders over the state of the Muslim world and where we're all lacking. He talks why us Muslims stand idly by and let "Muslim" countries commit human violations against other Muslim Countries. He talks about how we need to change as Muslims and why. He talks...
Jan 31, 2022•39 min•Season 3Ep. 11
The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Osly Abraham, 2 Muslim Americans, discuss their feelings as Muslims in America. How Islam gets them through hardship, and how Islam challenges them to be better every single day. They talk about living day by day and striving towards good character of Islam. The struggle of being Muslim.
Jan 18, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Season 3Ep. 10
The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Dr. Rana Dajani Discuss whether or not Evolution and Islam conflict on a fundamental level. Dr. Rana Dajani defines Evolution and then Explains how it fits into Islam. Dr. Rana Dajani clears up many of the misconceptions surrounding Evolution and Islam. How Muslims can believe in Evolution and the story of Adam and Eve at the same time. They talk about how evolution and the story of Adam and Eve in Islam don't conflict. Dr. Rana Dajani proposed a differen...
Jan 03, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Season 3Ep. 9
The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Revert Latina Muslim Author Wendy Diaz discuss her story and journey to Islam at a young age. Why she chose Islam? What sparked her interest in Islam? Why not Other religions? What made Islam stand out? What made Wendy Diaz see the illogic in Christianity's theology, while billions of Christians don't? And finally when she decided to convert to Islam. After that we discuss what was life's reaction to her Islam, what struggles did she have now that she bec...
Dec 20, 2021•1 hr 39 min•Season 3Ep. 6
The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Imam Ahmed Deeb discuss Imam Ahmad's life growing up in the United States as a first generation Muslim, they discuss the cognitive dissonance felt when you're a Muslim living in America. They discuss the philosophical and theological questions that troubled Imam Ahmad growing up and how he dealt with them on a personal level. They discuss why the Imam ultimately chose Islam and was convinced by it, and why he decided to completely devote his life to Islam...
Nov 29, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Season 3Ep. 5
The AUDIO IS FIXED*** The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Omar Faison discuss Omar's journey through different religious texts, and how he eventually settled on Islam and becoming Muslim. They discuss Omar's thought process during his religious journey and reading different religious texts such as the bible, torah and more. And then how he felt when reading the Quran, and what about the Quran stood out so much that led him to converting to Islam. Why did he come to the conclusion that Islam...
Nov 22, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Audio will be fixed in 2 Weeks! On this episode of The Ansari Podcast, Mahmoud Elansary and his buddy Max Mzhen have a light discussion about the commonalities between Islam and Judaism. And how Muslims and Jews historically lived in peace together. This episode is not to be informative on historical or religious points, but instead supposed to show a rare civil conversation between a Muslim and Jewish person in today's times.
Nov 16, 2021•42 min•Season 3Ep. 3
The Ansari Podcast, Mahmoud Elansary and Artist Malik Naim discuss the dangers of a Muslim becoming Arrogant in their Islam. How every Muslim has a personal journey with Allah/God and how every Muslim and all humans commits sins. They talk about the dangers of Muslims judging each other. And why Muslim parents and immigrant parents never have the sex talk with their Muslim kids/children. They talk about Muslims conflicting between their non Muslim friends but also wanting to get closer to Islam ...
Nov 08, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Season 3Ep. 2
On this episode of The Ansari Podcast, Mahmoud Elansary and Mufti Muhammed Ibn Muneer discuss why is Weed haram? How about before prayer? How about Alcohol. Why is that haram, even if it's in heaven? Why can't I have sex outside of marriage? It's an act of love and not violence, so is Islam against love Is it haram to masturbate? What about without porn? Why can't Muslim women marry non-Muslim men but Muslim men can marry non-muslim women? II feel like a hypocrite, what should I do? These kinds ...
Nov 02, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 3Ep. 1
*SORRY ABOUT THE SOUND QUALITY, WILL BE FIXED SOON IA* The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Holly Mara, 2 Muslim Americans, discuss why Holly decided to go into the film and arts industry. Especially since she is a minority in being a white American Hijabi Muslim woman. Holly speaks on the false narrative and fake bad reputation Islam has, even though when she discovered Islam it was nothing like the image she's seen in America. Holly talks about how she wants to change the way most Muslim w...
Aug 16, 2021•1 hr 10 min
The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Board Member Raheela Ahmed discuss Raheela's childhood and what led her to where she is today as a Muslim woman in America. They discuss the difficulties her immigrant father went through and the obstacles she had to face to become the first hijabi elected official in Maryland. They discuss how they personally deal with "Islamophobia" and what it is like being in public office. They discuss the corruption within American politics and the issue with dark m...
Aug 09, 2021•1 hr 19 min
The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Professor Sahar Aziz discuss how the American government treated Muslims and reacted to the attack on 9/11. They talk about how the U.S government used 9/11 as an excuse to expand their power and abuse it on Muslims, knowing there would be no repercussions. They talk about how the government was able to do whatever they wanted to Muslims because Muslim Americans are weak and had no political power. Muslims were an easy target for the U.S. government. And ...
Jul 26, 2021•1 hr 23 min
The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Saad Abbasi, 2 Muslim Americans, discuss the psychology behind one of the many reasons why Muslim Americans drink alcohol. They discuss Muslim Americans wanting to fit in, Muslim Americans wanting to be cool and Muslim Americans drinking in order to be cool. They discuss how some Muslims smoke weed, party and have sex. And Mahmoud Elansary gives his own personal account and best reasons as to why he did in the past. They also discuss how America helps man...
Jul 19, 2021•1 hr 24 min
The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and 2 of his highschool/college bestfriends talk about what God and religion has menat to them historically, how they feel about God and religion now. They ponder over the creation of God and who is God, how many Gods and religions are there and how to choose. What logic and knowledge mean to God and how important they are and the analogy of a ballroom as life. The issue with cancel culture, not listening to others, and Darrel Davis' experience with KKK leade...
Jun 28, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Season 2Ep. 13
The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Amal Kassir, 2 Muslim Americans, discuss Amals personal experience growing as a Muslim, Syrian, white American. Her experience being raised a Muslim in this country, how her mother converted, how she found God(Allah), she felt she had no purpose even after success, she questioned Gods will and existence, her struggle with faith and Islam. The moment she turned to God(Allah), and why she started wearing the hijab. They discuss Sadness and its necessity, he...
Jun 21, 2021•1 hr 46 min•Season 2Ep. 12
The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Dr. Sahar Khamis, 2 Muslim Americans, discuss how the internet has both united and disunited Muslims, the world needs more intellectual maturity, the Muslim middle ground is no where to be found online, silent majority of Muslims need to speak up, moderate Muslims don't feel like getting in online dialogues, Muslims not longer get information from scholars but from fools. They discuss the western medias anti-muslim rhetoric and how the media capitalizes o...
Jun 07, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Season 2Ep. 11
The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary, Ozzi, and Japheth. 3 bestfriends discuss Ozzi's recent conversion to Islam from Catholicism, why he made the change to Islam, what he loves about Islam, his relationship with God, being grateful to God, God speaking to us, peoples egos stopping them from the truth, Muslims would not be Muslims if they werent born into it. Mahmoud doubts he'd find Islam on his own, difficult to admit everything about your life is a lie. Harsh environment for converts, Noticea...
May 31, 2021•1 hr 36 min•Season 2Ep. 10
The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Muhammed Ali, 2 Muslim Americans, discuss how Islam will answer the ethical questions of the future, involving things happening now like sex robots, robots who claim to be Muslim, Robots that gain sentience, what is sentience? Dubai releasing an artificial fatua service, what sentience would do to the God argument. What knowledge is and what wisdom is. What consciousness is, if it is ethical to aid in suicide, whether animals are as intelligent as humans,...
May 26, 2021•2 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 9
The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary talks about Ramadan and the mentality Mahmoud enters Ramadan with, he talks about Eid, he talks about Kyrie becoming Muslim. He talks about Stephen Jackson becoming Muslim, and Muslim celebrities, and what Islam means to Mahmoud personally and his mentality on God and religion. #ramadan #kyrie #muslim #Islam #stephenjackson #God #Allah #kyrieirving
Apr 28, 2021•26 min
The Ansari Podcast: Mahmoud Elansary and Joshua Salaam, 2 Muslim Americans, discuss the relationship between immigrant Muslims and African American Muslims in the United States. They discuss how racism is a global phenomenon, Adam being a black man, Satan being the originator of racism, how Prophet Muhammed PBUH dealt with racial issues, if there is a way to integrate now, the trauma behind having slave ancestry, and the diversity of Prophet Muhammed PBUH life. Discuss the history behind the pop...
Apr 19, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Season 2Ep. 7
