Dadhood: Recent Episodes
Shoayb Muhammad
At the Dadhood podcast we discuss all things related to being a young Muslim dad. An episode will be released every week with a guest who will share his experience. If your wife is expecting a baby or you already have young children then this is the podcast to listen to
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Yusuf Patel is a father to 5 children and is the founder of SRE Islamic. SRE Islamic was established in 2008 to support Muslim parents navigate and respond to Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) in schools.
What we covered:
🍼 5 children and 0 theories about parenting
🍼 Fatherhood is a mirror reflecting your inner self
🍼 Importance of positive male figures
🍼 How SRE Islamic was founded
🍼 Debunking myths around tackling RSE in schools
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Zakariya Mohamed is a father to one daughter and two sons. He works in the rail industry and is involved in starting up and running a number of Muslim community projects focused on Muslim families.
What we covered: 🍼 How his family spends Eid 🍼 Community projects for Muslim families 🍼 How to get parents together to start your own community projects 🍼 Needing a strong support network as a father 🍼 Sometimes doing the basics is enough 🍼 His children's milestones
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Ahtisham Aziz is an all-rounder working on various businesses and projects such as TV presenting on Eman Channel, running a media and marketing agency, developing real estate and organising Islamic events alongside his wife through Ilmforum. He is a proud father to his young son and he has another child on the way!
What we covered:
🍼 Supporting your wife through pregnancy
🍼 Building a bond with your spouse before having children
🍼 Being present with your spouse
🍼 Practical ways to manage your time as busy parents
🍼 Shifting from single to married to parent
🍼 Men being dictators in their house
Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4mT_3M8lzQc
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K. S. Malik is a passionate author dedicated to connecting young Muslims with their cultural heritage through children's and young adult literature. With a background in engineering, he transitioned into writing to fill the void of culturally appropriate literature for Muslim children in Western societies. He is a father to 2 young children.
What we covered:
Why make Hijrah?
What are the benefits of living in Pakistan
Why children should not live in luxury
How will parenting styles differ in the East
Why he started writing
Books that are published and what's on the way
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Dr. Saqib Iqbal Qureshi is a Fellow at LSE and a renowned writer whose book "The Broken Contract" achieved bestseller status. He is also a film producer, founder of Building Capital Inc, and has a diverse background in finance and consulting.. And top it all off, he is an active father to 3 young boys.
What we covered:
🍼 Keeping fit as a busy dad
🍼 Instilling discipline into young boys
🍼 Surrounding kids with role models
🍼 Achieve your goals to set the standard for your kids
🍼 Top time management tips
🍼 Fatherhood is a passion
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Jibril Hanzo has been on many podcasts to speak about his journey to Islam but this time we speak about his journey as a father. He has 3 daughters and one newborn son. He is a counsellor and also works in the construction industry.
What we covered:
🍼 Becoming a dad for the first time
🍼 Being raised by a single father
🍼 Taking daughters to link-ups with your friends
🍼 Advice to fathers on raising daughters
🍼 Being a hands-on dad is masculine
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Ramiz Ibrahim is the founder of The Therapy Clinic which offers physiotherapy through hijama, massages and other services. He is also a psychotherapist who has worked with men and married couples to help resolve conflicts and heal from traumas. He is also a proud father to 3 children.
What we covered:
🍼 How to teach emotional intelligence to your children
🍼 The impact our parents can have on the way we parent
🍼 Controlling your anger
🍼 Tips for men on how to build emotional intelligence
🍼 You cant know your children if you don't know yourself
🍼 Dealing with divorce
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Alim Sheikh is currently the Principal at Barnet Hill Academy, a private Islamic school which will be taking on Reception students starting September 2023 on a Voluntary Aid basis (link with more info below). Mr Shiekh has an MA, PGCE, Mphil and NPQH. He helped to open to first Islamic boys school in the UK, Brondesbury College.
What we covered:
🍼 Hearing about the birth of his first child whilst on Umrah
🍼 How growing up in Scotland has affected his fatherhood
🍼 What the past 27 years of teaching at Islamic schools has been like
🍼 Why its important Islamic Schools get Voluntary Aid status
🍼 Why parents need to trust Islamic schools more
Watch on YouTube https://youtu.be/d1BT6BbwPl4
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Ehsun Anwar is a life coach who primarily helps people to lose weight through healing past traumas. He is not a father nor a Muslim but has powerful insights in how we can improve our relationship with our fathers and others around us.
What we covered:
🍼 What is a 'father wound'?
🍼 Identifying the symptoms of the father wound
🍼 Connecting with God is part of the healing process
🍼 Stop living as a reaction to your past traumas
🍼 How to start your journey towards healing
🍼 The power of patience and gratitude
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Ustadh Shabbir Hassan recently became a father to his beautiful daughter Rawda after having completed his Alimyyah and gaining an Ijazah in Dawrah al-Hadith. He spends most of his time teaching at Faith and getting halal couples married with Nikkah Co.
What we covered:
🍼 Becoming a dad for the first time
🍼 Overcoming fears of travelling with a newborn
🍼 Top hacks for travelling with a baby
🍼 Praying with Rawda in the Rawda
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Ameen Omar is a father of two young boys. He is a part of the Muslim CEO team helping Muslims to launch businesses. He is the author of the Muslim men's book The Shepard's Way. He is also a Youtuber and Co-Host of the podcast Mind Heist.
What we covered:
🍼 Muslim men need to Pray, Provide and Protect
🍼 What is a "masculine" dad?
🍼 Going beyond the basic parenting duties
🍼 How we want our children to view us
🍼 How to "control" your family
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Simon is a convert to Islam who originally from Sweden and now living in the UAE. He is a father to an adorable daughter and is an Online fitness coach or Muslim men and women.
What we covered:
🍼 Simon's experience of becoming a father
🍼 How to keep up with your fitness with a newborn
🍼 Common mistakes fathers make with their health
🍼 Being a healthy role model for your children
🍼 "Health hacks" that actually work
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Musa Adnan, although not a father himself, is well known to have a great relationship with his father Ustadh Adnan Rashid. Following in his fathers footsteps Musa has a degree in History and is heavily involved in learning and teaching Islam.
What we covered:
🍼 Your father is the "best" gate to Jannah
🍼 Dealing with "abusive" parents
🍼 Father and child relationships in the Quran
🍼 How Musa's dad built a bond with him
🍼 The impact Musa's dad had on him
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Shoaib Hussain or @thesunnahguy has been hitting the social media algorithm hard in the past few weeks with his hard hitting short videos. I decided to sit down with him and discuss his less well known role of being a father to a boy and a girl. Be warned, he is very unorthodox!
What we covered:
🍼 Why he started using social media
🍼 How social media impacts our parenting methods
🍼 Public school vs Home school
🍼 Why Shoaib is a relaxed parent
🍼 What a decade of youth work has taught him about fatherhood
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Ahmed Yunus or better known as @Father2AQueen makes viral videos on TikTok and instagram with his 5 year old daughter where they learn about Islam in a fun and engaging way
What we covered:
🍼 How the viral videos started and their impact
🍼 Protection against the evil eye
🍼 Why fathers need to play an active role in the family
🍼 The importance of seeking knowledge
🍼 Teaching Islam in a fun way
🍼 Answering questions from the live audience
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Khidr or Just Another Brother as he is known on Instagram is a father of 3 at only 26 years old, a student of knowledge and works for Islamic Finance Guru as their Community Lead.
What we covered:
🍼Why Khidr put his children in school
🍼 "Parenting books are like books on how to swim"
🍼 Reviewing various parenting books we have read
🍼 Defining the roles of a father
🍼 Overcoming generational trauma
🍼 Khidr's library
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Jalal is an IT professional, Da'ee, founder of projects like 1Eid and a father to multiple children.
What we covered:
🍼 Experience of being a father for the first time
🍼 Lessons from the story of Suhayla and Farooq
🍼 How 1Eid started
🍼 How to involve your children in Dawah projects
🍼 Answering your questions from the Instagram live
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Jalal is an IT professional, Da'ee, founder of projects like 1Eid and a father to multiple children.
What we covered:
🍼 Experience of being a father for the first time
🍼 Lessons from the story of Suhayla and Farooq
🍼 How 1Eid started
🍼 How to involve your children in Dawah projects
🍼 Answering your questions from the Instagram live
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Uthman is a humanitarian aid worker and a father to two young boys. He used to weigh 166kg and over the course of the last 12 months he has lost 70kg resulting in him becoming a more active dad.
What we covered:
🍼 Struggling with being a dad at 166kg
🍼 Almost taking his own life
🍼 The mental struggle of being overweight
🍼 What benefits he gained from losing the weight
🍼 Answering your questions from the Instagram live
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Shaykh Abu Muslim Kamran is a graduate from the Islamic University of Medina and now works as a secondary school teacher. He is also the founder of a unique online madrassah called Your Madrassah and is a father of two.
What we covered
Becoming a father at 21
Raising his son in Medina
Homeschooling tips
What is Your Madrassah
Inspiring the love of Quran in children
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Zen Mahmood is the Co-Founder Q-Iman, an institute of Arabic and Islamic Sciences, a Secondary School Teacher and a Father to his 1 year old son.
What we covered:
🍼 Positively handling his parents divorce
🍼 Not wanting a second wife
🍼 Balancing fatherhood with a business, full time job and studies
🍼 Teaching vs Tarbiyah
🍼 How his son made him wealthy
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Ismael Musoke is a poet, an author, a project manager and a father to his 1 year old son. He is also the youngest person to come on the podcast at 25 years old.
What we covered:
🍼 Getting married at 22
🍼 Positive impact of Ismael's father
🍼 Parenting goes beyond the parents
🍼 Fatherhood brings you closer to Allah
🍼 Sons vs Daughters
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Adam Kaan is an online personal trainer, the founder of the Fit Dad Life Mastery Program, has 2 children and has been through a divorce and remarried.
What we covered:
🍼 Battling with tuberculosis as a teen
🍼 Lack of health role models in South Asian community
🍼 How dads can fit healthy habits into their busy lifestyle
🍼 Raising two children for 7 years as a single father
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AkhiTweet, actual name Mohamed R, is a visual artist, co=host of Mind Heist podcast, co-host of Dad's Dunya podcast (Freshly Grounded), lives in Brighton and is a father of two!
What we covered:
🍼 Why we got married early and had kids early
🍼 Why men delay marriage and the harms of it
🍼 Raising kids outside the big cities
🍼 The long lasting impact fathers have
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Yusuf Kalam is a Fundraising Manager for Muslim Aid and is a brand new father with his daughter being only a month old!
What we covered:
🍼 The taboo of miscarriage and still births
🍼 Tips on supporting your wife through pregnancy
🍼 Unexpected emergency C section
🍼 The special name given to his daughter
🍼 The first month of being a dad
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Dr. Salman Butt is the Chief Editor of the website www.Islam21c.com has a PhD in Chemical Biology and is a father to 4 children.
What we covered:
🍼 Children bring their own provision
🍼 New societal norms are harming our children's development
🍼 How Islam can reverse that harm
🍼 Shocking studies on the harms of smartphones
🍼 Why parents should buy the most expensive games
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Fayaaz has a 2 year old daughter, lives in Exeter and is a data privacy specialist.
What we covered:
🍼 Career change with a Newborn
🍼 Making sacrifices for your children
🍼 High income vs job satisfaction
🍼 Learning about yourself from your children
🍼 Making the most of the early years
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In Episode 12 we are joined by Reece Byfield aka Muhammad Ibrahim Al-Shafi'ee who is a Revert to Islam, an Alimiyyah student at As Salaam Institute (ASI), a graduate in Philosophy from KCL and now a Masters student in University of Cambridge. He just became a father 4 months ago and shares his reasons for giving his son a "controversial name", how he plans to nurture a strong Muslim personality in his son and why he has decided to study at University of Cambridge.
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In this episode I was joined by Zarrar. He is a father to one 3 year old son, he works in a senior position in the sales industry and he is an avid reader. Zarrar broke down the allergies his son has and how he and his wife deal with his nutrition. He also explains what challenges he faced when looking for a Nursery for his son. We then discussed how we want to educate our children at their young age now and moving ahead in the future and why reading is a key part of that. He ends off with telling us some of his time management tips!
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I was joined by Qari Is’Haaq Jasat who is the founder of the National Huffadh Association UK. He is currently is a part-time Imam at London Islamic Cultural Society in North London and Head of Religious Education at Eden Girls Waltham Forest. He is a father to one daughter. We spoke about some of the challenges he faced being a new father, balancing all of his roles with fatherhood, encouraging his daughter to memorise Qur'an at a very young age, football for toddlers and the rewards systems he has in place to regulate his daughters behaviour. Overall this episode stressed the importance of being an active parent.
For more information about Qari Is'Haaq and his book projects, please visit: www.getmy365.co.uk
Today I was joined by Nur Choudhry the founder of Involved fathers (involvedfathers.com) and chair of charity Human Aid UK. He has 6 children the youngest 4 and the eldest 14. He is a parenting consultant holding a diploma in child psychology and cetificates in counselling and life coaching.
We spoke about the recently released OFSTED report on sexual harassment in schools, how it affects our children and what we can do about it. Towards the end Nur shared some tips on how busy fathers can still play an active role in their children's lives
In this episode I sat down with Khidr or Just Another Brother as he is known on Instagram. He's father of 3 at only 25 years old, a student of knowledge and works for the East London Mosque. We spoke about his reaction to having twins, how him and his wife deal with raising 3 children, his favourtie books, why he started his Instagram account and what he looks forward to doing with his children as they grow up.
Tanim Zaman, Co-Founder of Golden Touch Academy and father to one boy, joins me on the podcast to share his experiences. We start by delving into how Tanim made time for the birth of his son. We then spoke about why having a your own business has so many advantages for fathers. Tanim shares his advice to young brothers who are thinking about starting a family. He also gives fathers advice on how to teach their children about money. Finally he ends on his vision for a Muslim homeschooling village.
This is the fifth episode of the Dadhood Podcast with Dr. Yusuf Abdul-Jobbar who has 6 children with the oldest being 16 and the youngest being 5. He tuned in live from Turkey so we discussed why and how he moved his family out there. We shared his thoughts on balanacing Secular and Islamic education. He is a part time Imam/Da'ee so we spoke about how he balances that responsibility with 6 children. We ended with some funny moments he's has in his journey of Dadhood.
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This is the second episode of the Dadhood Podcast with my dear friend Hamza where we discuss his journey from being on the roads to taking hundreds of people on Umrah, with an unexpected turn into youth work. We talk about his parenting organisation Bonsai Trust, how he handles his two toddlers, why we always need to be improving ourselves as parents and how anger can destory households
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This is the third episode of the Dadhood Podcast with my friend for 13+ years, Maruf, who is not yet a father. We discuss going on Umrah together and what we got up to in school. He asks me questions about fatherhood to prepare himself for when that moment comes like when are you ready to have kids, how do you prioritise your time and how to support your wife during pregnancy.
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My good friend Maruf is back again with more questions about becoming a Dad. In this episode we started with a quick fire round to get to know him a bit better. Then i gave him a scenario in which he is a father with two children, we broke down what that vision looks like and how we can work towards that ideal. The key message was that we need to start working on ourselves from now in order to reach that ideal vision in the future.
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This is the fourth episode of the Dadhood Podcast with Tariq Shaekh who has 3 children and has been working in charity fundraising for over a decade. We speak about how he gave me my first job, key marriage advice, how to set a vision for your children, what are the benefits of home births and why the outdoors are so good for our children.
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This is the first episode of the Dadhood Podcast with my dear friend Taha we discuss how he feels being a father for the third time, what his experience was with pregnancy throughout the pandemic, how he got into the infamous Eton boarding school and the mindsets hes learnt from that and wants to pass down to his children.
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