May Allah put barakah in your work. Our community needs more of these thoughts, provoking conversations. We must learn to take what we find beneficial and leave the rest. Our stories and life experiences are so diverse, and sometimes, it is good to hear different points of view.

i thoroughly enjoyed every episode i listened to, even being brought to tears by some. the people who are criticising are the ones who are in more need to hear the stories of these wonderful people that you bring on the podcast. Please brother keep doing what you are doing, change in society is brought upon by people like yourselves who have the awareness of what is happening in our communities and willing to shed light upon them. Ignorance is prevalent and our immigrant communities living in the west are suffering, and trust me i am yet to see an ignorant person enjoy being educated and made aware of their own problems there is almost always resistance to change and criticism of the very people who want their best interests. Its all part of the process brother, may god keep us steadfast on the path inshallah.

Keep up the great work and keep shining

Well said brother. Please keep up the great work and the wonderful podcasts.

Really great podcast, keep going inshAllah, vey valuable conversations. JazakAllah Khair for all your efforts.

Well said👏🏻

I am your sister from Yemen, and by Allah I only spoke out of hunger and distress. My mother, my brothers, and I lessons and tears. We are in a situation that only God knows about. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs for those who brought us to this situation. By Allah Almighty, I did not write this appeal out of distress and distress. Poverty, O world, they have felt it So, I hope for you. By Allah Almighty, Lord of the Great Throne, he ate what I had in the house. By Allah, my brothers, he is my brothers by sitting in the house. Who has no food? By God, we are in a very difficult situation. We have 6 people entering the house, and my father has died, and there is no one who can depend on us and who lives in it.We live in a rented house because we cannot pay the rent we owe. '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''' My brother, my first words are: I swear to God that I will not lie to you or deceive you. I am a Yemeni girl displaced from the war. My family and I live in a rented house in Al-Shahrab 15,000 Yemenis among us, and now we owe 45,000 for 3 months. The owner of the house is one of the people who does not have mercy, by God, my brother. He comes every day, insulting us, talking about us, and moving from the house to the street because we were unable to pay him the rent. The neighbors saw us crying and came back.They came back to talk to the neighbors and we were given the weekend. So we made him swear by God. He will take us out into the street. Have mercy on him and us. Our country is due to this war and we do not find food for our day, and my brothers and I live in a difficult life. Our father died, may God have mercy on him, and we have no one in this world who was with us in these harsh circumstances. My younger brothers went out into the street and saw...The neighbors eat and stand at their door in order to give them bread even if they break it. By God, to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, they closed the door and expelled them and came back crying. They are dying of hunger. No one has mercy on them and a holiday is returned. I have made a living, and now if one of us helps us with a kilo of flour, I swear to God, I am dying of hunger. My brother, I am an alien to God. Then, I ask you to help me for the sake of God. I ask you, by God, to love goodness and to help me, even if you can, by messaging me on WhatsApp.On this number 00967717415667 and ask for the name of my card and send it and do not be late and may God reward you with all the best, my brothers Sagar, see how they are and help us and save us before they throw us out in the street, you will be lost or we will die of hunger. My family and I ask you, by God, if you are able to help us, do not be late and may God reward you well..`/--~«««~-♡~♡~♡~~•~•~♡~♡~♡~♡~♡~♡♡♡~~~: ~:~¡~¡~¡~;I.i.i.i.i.i،،،

Danish! So great to hear more of your story! Congratulations on becoming a father!

Amazing conversation! I love this podcast and I have been sharing it with many people!!

What a beautiful soul...

🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩Am I the only one who is bothered by letting the Zuckerbergs gathering our DNA? 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

This was such an amazing podcast. The part where he went to America to find his Islamic roots and acknowledge how much the American Muslims influenced our Islamic identity. We were thought nothing but shame from our Islamic community it was people like Malcom X and Muhammad Ali who thought us to be proud of ourselves. This is such an important story. In the end it bothered me that he said he is trying to show non-Muslims about Islam and I thought,' here we go again begging our colonial oppressors to acknowledge our humanity' but then but when he said, they use the camera to dehumanize us and he is using that same weapon, that was really powerful and empowering.

this podcast and this specific episode deserves more attention, I really pray that this podcast reaches the people who need it the most. Thank you very much Jafaar for your work and inshallah this is goes into your hasanat.

thanks for talking about this, i myself have been hearing voices and having visions of things not actually there for about 9 years. Only after suffering for many years silently did i finally seek the help of mental health professionals and try medication which alhamdulilah has made me feel a million times better. Initially me and my family were not too well informed about mental health in general and it doesnt help that the whole community doesnt talk about these things either. We sought the help of the shaykhs and tried treating it spiritually however that did not seem to work. Alhamdulilah for everything though i feel blessed to be able to be functioning as i am now and receive the help that i need. If only more mosques were more open about these topics and as a community we were made more aware of these problems then many people would have reduced their suffering and not gone down the path of suicide and addictions. thanks again for talking about this, may god reward you both for the work that you do😊

I don’t know what yemeni community this guy is talking about. I’m yemeni and he is clearly exaggerating. Not sure if this is on purpose or he only new a family that perhaps has a genetic mutation or something. But to make it look like every family has someone who is schizophrenic or su1c1d. al is BS. If he only knows the people that come to his mental health clinic then he should know only people with mental issues will visit his clinic. I hate the fact that this channel is promoting this without verifying only to gain more views.

Social media is no longer social, it's hypnotical. I remember a meditation book called 30 Days Without Social Media by Harper Daniels that was helpful.

I think our Muslim community has MANY mental health issues that are not talked about enough. There is still stigma around it. We NEED to talk about it more to break the stigma. I don’t think we should go around exposing our sins or other sins. But I think it’s important to break the silence on topics that are plaguing our community! I love this channel ❤️🤲🏽 May Allah swt bless you!!

Great video. Appreciate this channel mashAllah

I loved her insights, thank you ❤

Subhanallah, this work is so important. may Allah facilitate the work of mental health workers and provide more opportunities for them to help our communities. We deeply need it.

I could almost agree with every single thing he said. Especially about the unknown issues in our community. After many years of lots of social interaction in this community, we all seem to have a friend or two who we jokingly say are 'a little out there' or 'you know how they are' but we would never label that person, they're completely 'normal' other than that 'weird' thing they do. I have slowly been noticing they come from families with 'close knit' marriages. When certain cultures, especially the Yemani community, have such strict expectations of even the exact city that the spouse should be from within Yeman, in combination with the plethora of other exposures in specifically the South end of Dearborn with the air quality and food, etc. - I would not be surprised one bit if the link he is suspecting exists in one way or another. I've noticed it among the Yemani and Lebanese community the most. I'd be very interested if our institutions put more effort into these topics since they drive the future of our Ummah.

Montessori is a great alternative! I left my career to become a Montessori teacher. It's a pedagogy that educates the whole child. Just watch out for critical theory and critical pedagogy though!

As Salaamu Alaikum SO TRUE 💯🤔May Allah guide you to SUCESS n protect you n elevate you In this life n in the next AlkahummaAmeen ,,,in sha Allah we gonna offer dua n follow ya closely BarakaAllah feekum ..🤔💯☝🏽❤️🇵🇷🇵🇸

The public education of America is not broken but was always broken! They don’t teach you anything! 12 years in school and nothing to help in real life! After elementary and you learn how to read, write, and learn basic math! The rest is to teach how to be a slave to big corporate’s!

This was an excellent discussion, I disagree with stepping out of a majlis, but I do agree we need to reform the way some speakers will relay the masaib, very brave of your guest to say so out loud.

Since most people cannot afford private schools, parents should teach at home subjects like religion, ethics, morality and civics. Hard to depend public shcool teachers for all that a student needs.

Then when your kids grow up and leave, you have no one. Mothers are so selfless and giving but men are self serving.live your life cause they're living theirs

What an insightful discussion on education in America.

Allah yirhamo his dad was an amazing guy!

Always glad to listen to your podcast! I’m glad his mind and heart is with Allah Alhamdulilah for god testing us all! Believe god is there for us Allah Subhanallah 🤲🏼May Allah bless us all!

Israel is behind education in USA even universities specially medicine doctors now are sells men for pharmaceutical companies

the most bright and insightful teacher i’ve ever had the pleasure of getting to know!!

Ms. Chami was my teacher she’s one of the teachers that have inspired me to become a teacher myself because of how she treated her students and everyone around her. I loved having her and anyone would be lucky having her as a teacher. ❤

Really like this episode

Part 2 please!

ms chami was my teacher. if I didn't have her as a teacher, i would not be as aware as I am now, nor would I be as community conscious as I am now. im so glad she was my teacher

Another episode 😁

Incredible! What an insightful conversation, looking forward to listen to more. ربنا يحفظها و هون عليها و يجعل والدتها من أهل الجنة يا رب.

I want to tell sister Zeinab that she isn’t alone in feeling this way about Ashoura. I struggled with this after seeing the exaggeration as well. Unfortunately, it is almost like idolizing and less about following in the footsteps of our prophet’s family nowadays. And it isn’t only Ashura. It’s the “3ayb” for women but not 3ayb for men. We see men shirtless and they see nothing wrong with it as if modesty isn’t for men; why don’t we hear more about the “hijab” for men? And countless other things. Before Imam Ali’s martyrdom, he left us with this message which is recorded in Nahjul Balagha Letter 23: “I enjoin upon you as my dying wish not to regard anything by way of partner with Allah, not to disregard the sunnah of Muhammad (may Allah bless him and his descendants), establish these two pillars and light these two lamps. You will then be free from evil.” ‎وَصِيَّتِي لَكُمْ: أَنْ لاَ تُشْرِكُوا بِاللهِ شَيْئاً، وَمُحَمَّدٌ (صلى الله عليه وآله) فَلاَ تُضَيِّعُوا سُنَّتَهُ، أَقِيمُوا هذَيْنِ الْعَمُودَينِ، وَخَلاَ كُمْ ذَمٌّ. In our mosques, we need more of teachings about following the sunnah of our prophet through the teachings of the family of our prophet rather than making mourning and Ashoura be the center of their story.

Love!!! Big reason why I chose to homeschool my kids ❤

Great episode! I always love hearing Zeinab's perspectives.

as a non shia muslim studying to become a teacher I have so much respect for this sister, may Allah always give her the best :)

It is brainwashing. I was a public school teacher before being Muslim. In Texas they spend 9 weeks on teaching Anne frank in English. Why? Can’t we spend history time on that or read any other story about internment camps in American, like the Japanese? It’s not enough though, because they then take 9 more weeks on high school to teach it in English again. What’s the message: The Juice need to be safe…yeah. Right.

I really enjoy this podcast and look forward to the growth of this channel. I will say in addition, I find sometimes that the interviewer cuts the interviewees often mid sentence and it would be great as an audience member to hear less interruptions. JazakAllah Khair

So much for a free country, when the both of you are self censoring because of the rainbow mafia. Jafar doesn't want to have a strike on his channel and Zaynab doesn't want to be reprimanded at the public school. Other communities and religious groups look at the Muslims who are capable of putting a stop to the degeneracy that's taking place in the society, because Islam is about family values and focus on raising children on the correct path. As far as the the exaggeration of the majalis, I would advise Zaynab to look into Sheikh Mohammad Taqi Bahjat and understand what it means to cry and shed tears for Imam Hussain. I hope Jafar can reach out and have a podcast with Hajj Khalil Jafar to give more understanding about majalis/azadari and raising children in the west.

Which podcast

One of the most insightful people I know! Zeinab you are the best!

I am your sister from Yemen, and by Allah I only spoke out of hunger and distress. My mother, my brothers, and I lessons and tears. We are in a situation that only God knows about. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs for those who brought us to this situation. By Allah Almighty, I did not write this appeal out of distress and distress. Poverty, O world, they have felt it So, I hope for you. By Allah Almighty, Lord of the Great Throne, he ate what I had in the house. By Allah, my brothers, he is my brothers by sitting in the house. Who has no food? By God, we are in a very difficult situation. We have 6 people entering the house, and my father has died, and there is no one who can depend on us and who lives in it.We live in a rented house because we cannot pay the rent we owe. '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ''''''''''''' My brother, my first words are: I swear to God that I will not lie to you or deceive you. I am a Yemeni girl displaced from the war. My family and I live in a rented house in Al-Shahrab 15,000 Yemenis among us, and now we owe 45,000 for 3 months. The owner of the house is one of the people who does not have mercy, by God, my brother. He comes every day, insulting us, talking about us, and moving from the house to the street because we were unable to pay him the rent. The neighbors saw us crying and came back.They came back to talk to the neighbors and we were given the weekend. So we made him swear by God. He will take us out into the street. Have mercy on him and us. Our country is due to this war and we do not find food for our day, and my brothers and I live in a difficult life. Our father died, may God have mercy on him, and we have no one in this world who was with us in these harsh circumstances. My younger brothers went out into the street and saw...The neighbors eat and stand at their door in order to give them bread even if they break it. By God, to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, they closed the door and expelled them and came back crying. They are dying of hunger. No one has mercy on them and a holiday is returned. I have made a living, and now if one of us helps us with a kilo of flour, I swear to God, I am dying of hunger. My brother, I am an alien to God. Then, I ask you to help me for the sake of God. I ask you, by God, to love goodness and to help me, even if you can, by messaging me on WhatsApp.On this number 00967717415667 and ask for the name of my card and send it and do not be late and may God reward you with all the best, my brothers Sagar, see how they are and help us and save us before they throw us out in the street, you will be lost or we will die of hunger. My family and I ask you, by God, if you are able to help us, do not be late and may God reward you well..`/--~«««~-♡~♡~♡~~•~•~♡~♡~♡~♡~♡~♡♡♡~~~: ~:~¡~¡~¡~;I.i.i.i.i.i. i.I.|-......

Yumna - thank you for sharing the simple way you went about life and your business and the situations that made it possible. Thank you for sharing how you made it work with the given parameters. Big shoutout to you, your husband for supporting, and definitely your kids for taking part. Also thank you Jaafar for this episode.

Host always asks very good questions and gives them space to talk well done