OnePath Podcast

Fifty years ago, a young Englishman educated to run an Empire that no longer existed staged the largest celebration of Islamic civilisation the West had ever seen. Six months before it opened, he became Muslim. In this OnePath Podcast, Ahmed Paul Keeler sits down with us to tell that story, and to deliver a warning for a world in crisis.Raised to believe Britain was the greatest civilisation in history and brought up a Zionist, how did one of the British establishment's own find his way to Islam? Why does he describe modernity as a cult, a creation of the human imagination cut off from reality? And why does he believe the Golden Age story Muslims love to tell may be doing us more harm than good?We explore the Mizan, the divine balance at the heart of his work, why so many Muslims blame their own weak faith for the decline of their civilisation, and what it means to see our history through the eyes of the conqueror. Ahmed Paul Keeler argues that Muslims must recover their own story before they can offer it to anyone else, and that in an age of storms, our task is to bear witness to the truth and provide a refuge.Ahmed Paul Keeler was born in 1942 and was the founder and director of the World of Islam Festival, held in London in 1976 and opened by Her Majesty the Queen, the most comprehensive exposition of Islamic culture ever staged in the West. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, and the author of Rethinking Islam & the West: A New Narrative for the Age of Crises, in which he introduced the Mizan Thesis, and A Life's Journey: The Story Behind the Book.Support the show

In this OnePath Podcast, Dr. Yasir Qadhi joins us for a frank conversation about what it means to live as a Muslim in the West today: our responsibility before Allah, to our families, and to the communities we call home.Dr. Qadhi shares his perspective on the rise of Muslim politicians such as Zohran Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed, why he does not endorse candidates, and why no politician will ever be our saviour. He also speaks candidly about the idealism behind migration.We also discuss the revival among young Muslims since Gaza, how online division distorts the reality of our communities, his first visit to Syria, the lessons of Salahuddin, and the spiritual cost of handing our thinking over to AI.Dr. Yasir Qadhi is the Dean of the Islamic Seminary of America, the Resident Scholar at the East Plano Islamic Center in Texas, and the Chairman of the Fiqh Council of North America.Support the show

Your phone knows where you go, who you speak to, and what you search at 2am. In this Expert Q&A, cybersecurity specialist Ahmed Khanji explains who wants that data, how they get it, and what you can do to protect yourself.From Pegasus, the military grade spyware that sits on a phone without leaving a visible trace, to new police powers in New South Wales to extract data from your device, to data brokers feeding companies like Palantir, how exposed are we really? Can deleted messages be recovered? Is your phone listening to you? And what happens to everything you tell AI chatbots?At the end of the episode, we hand Ahmed a phone and ask him to check it for spyware.Ahmed Khanji is the Chief Executive Officer of Gridware, a Sydney-based specialist cybersecurity firm founded in 2017. Gridware provides penetration testing, digital forensics and incident response, managed security, and cyber advisory to organisations across Australia, and was named SIEM Provider of the Year at the 2025 Australian Cybersecurity Awards. Having worked on more than a thousand cyber attacks, Ahmed brings a frontline view of how criminals, corporations, and governments access personal data.Support the show

For most Muslims, faith sits on one side and work sits on the other. In this OnePath Podcast, Omar DaCosta-Shahid argues that the separation is a recent invention, and that asking whether your income is halal is only the beginning of the question.If more than half of our waking life is spent working, what does it mean to make that work an act of worship? We explore why the ethical order of no harm first, then benefit, then profit, is the exact reverse of how most businesses operate, what the classical Islamic literature on trade and earning actually says, whether behaving ethically really costs you money, and how the Prophetic model of trade followed by withdrawal applies to a life of relentless deadlines. The conversation also turns to the harder questions. Does wealth change people for the better or the worse? Why do brands stay silent on Gaza? And is any of this just a spiritual pacifier for capitalism?Omar DaCosta-Shahid is an entrepreneur, public speaker and educator who specialises in integrating Islamic spiritual principles with modern business practice. He studies classical works on earning and trade with scholars in the UK and Malaysia, and has completed a two-year part-time group study inIslamic finance with Mufti Faraz Adam (“TheMessenger’s Money Morals”).Before this he advised Fortune 500 companies on the Muslim market and worked as a journalist for The Guardian, The Times, The Independent and the New Statesman, writing on religion and politics. He founded the Muslim Influencer Network in 2017 and now runs Spirituality of Business, a platform built on the premise of business as a path to God. He is a Forbes 30 Under 30 listee and has been named among the UK's most influential Muslims in media.Support the show

n this OnePath Podcast, registered psychologist Tareq Ahmed joins us to talk honestly about depression, suicide and bullying, including a devastating lived experience he overcame.Tareq Ahmed is a registered psychologist based in Sydney, currently practising at Mindwise, where he works with children, teens and adults. He is also the co-founder of Educaid Australia, a non-profit that has trained more than 2,000 mental health first aiders and partnered with over 100 schools, organisations and community groups across Australia. Alongside his clinical background, Tareq speaks publicly about his own experience navigating suicidal ideation as a Palestinian Muslim, bringing a rare combination of professional expertise and lived experience to conversations many families still find difficult to have.Support the show

Neanderthals, evolution, and now artificial intelligence. On this OnePath Podcast, Hamza Karamali argues the problem was never the science. It is that we stopped teaching our children how to think. We cover the Sapiens claim that religion was invented as a useful fiction, the argument from contingency, and then evolution at length. Does it remove the need for a Creator? Where do Neanderthals and the fossil record sit alongside the Quranic account of Adam? And what happens to our children’s faith when they reach a university where evolution is settled fact, and take their hardest questions to a machine instead of a teacher? Hamza Karamali is the founder of Basira Education and the author of Why Islam Is True, a book and website setting out Quranic arguments for the existence of God, the messengerhood of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, and the purpose of life. Originally from Canada and now based in Turkey, his work draws on the classical science of rational arguments preserved in the tafsir tradition.Support the show

Shaykh Abdurragmaan Khan is one of South Africa's most prominent Islamic scholars, serving as imam and Director of Dar al-Turāth al-Islāmi (DTI) and co-founder of the Maḥabbah Foundation. A hafidh and Mufti on the Muslim Judicial Council of South Africa, he trained under some of the most respected names in the Islamic tradition, including Habib Umar bin Hafiz and Shaykh Muhammad Taha Karan. His scholarship bridges the deep roots of South African Islam — a community shaped by centuries of history and forged through the trials of apartheid — with the classical learning of Yemen's scholarly tradition. Today he is a leading voice on dawah, Islamic jurisprudence, and preparing the next generation of Muslims to navigate a rapidly changing world.Shaykh Abdurragmaan Khan traces Cape Town's Muslim community from its origins with exiled scholars like Shehu Yusuf, who led resistance against the Dutch East India Company before being brought to the Cape in chains, through three centuries of colonial rule and apartheid, to today. He describes how weekly dhikr gatherings functioned as a community-wide parenting system that held families and faith together under persecution, and reflects on the largely untold role Muslims played resisting apartheid alongside Mandela.He shares his own story growing up in South Africa as the son of a well-known rugby player, and how his path led him to Yemen to study under Habib Umar bin Hafiz and Shaykh Muhammad Taha Karan — including what that experience taught him about staying high-spirited through hardship. Returning home, he speaks to the real challenges of applying what he learned abroad in a South African context, what makes a dawah project actually succeed, and the difference between preaching Islam and living it so that character alone becomes the invitation.Support the show

In this OnePath Podcast, we sit down with Na'ima B. Robert, author, editor, and coach, to talk about identity, purpose, and what it really means to live as a Muslim woman navigating multiple roles, seasons, and the weight of a public life.What does it mean to see yourself as a traveler rather than a title? How do you raise children in a world where Islamic books for kids barely existed? And when society says Muslim women should step back from the mic, what does history actually tell us about women and knowledge?Na'ima B. Robert is an award-winning author of multicultural literature and the founding editor of SISTERS Magazine, a UK-based publication for Muslim women. Born in Leeds to a Scottish father and Zulu mother from South Africa, and raised in Zimbabwe, she converted to Islam in 1998. Over a career spanning more than two decades, she has published close to 30 books for children, teens, and adults, beginning with The Swirling Hijab, and has become one of the most recognised voices in Islamic publishing and Muslim women's media globally.Support the show

There is a difference between a religion that is alive and a religion that is merely practiced. Dr. Samir Mahmoud has spent decades thinking about what separates the two. In this episode, he lays out one of the most rigorous and far-reaching frameworks for Islamic revival the channel has hosted.Dr. Samir Mahmoud is Academic Director of Usul Academy and Lecturer on the Diploma in Islamic Psychology at the Cambridge Muslim College. He was formerly Assistant Professor at the Lebanese American University. He holds a BA in Anthropology and Politics and an MA in Architectural History, Theory and Urban Design from the University of New South Wales, an MPhil in Theology and Religious Studies, and a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Cambridge, completed under the supervision of Dr. Timothy Winter (Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad).Support the show

What does it actually take to find the right person, and are most Muslims approaching it completely backwards? In this OnePath Podcast, relationship coach Hannah El-Gashingi joins us for an honest, Sharia-grounded conversation on love, marriage readiness, and what nobody teaches Muslim singles before they start looking.We cover the red and green flag mentality and why it misses the point entirely, what Islamic personal development actually looks like before you enter the marriage process, the five topics every Muslim should discuss when getting to know a potential spouse, how to handle the social pressure of still being single in your 30s, and the real difference between planning a wedding and building a marriage.Hannah also shares her own deeply personal journey, including losing her mother before finding her husband, the grey jumper she bought for a man she had never met, and how shifting from dua made in despair to dua made with hope changed everything for her.Hannah El-Gashingi is a certified relationship coach and co-founder of The Muslim Love Coaches, an Instagram platform she runs alongside her husband offering Islamic-grounded relationship coaching for Muslim singles and married couples. Her work focuses on pre-marriage readiness, values alignment, emotional intelligence, and building marriages that last.Support the show