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Someone leaves you on read. Someone gives a one-word reply. Someone doesn't say salaam back after Jummah.

Your brain starts building a case before anyone said a word.

The Prophet ﷺ called that suspicion the most false form of speech there is.

Watch the full khutbah, “Are You Too Sensitive?” by Dr. Omar Suleiman: http://yqn.io/0iw2

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Renad Attalah inspired hope with her cooking videos set in war-torn Gaza. Now, she has sought safety in the Netherlands while her mother remains behind.

Join Dr. Omar Suleiman to hear from Renad and her mother, Um Firas, learn about what life is like in Gaza as the world moves on, and hear the stories of a mother and daughter separated by a needlessly cruel conflict.

#gaza #war #islam #humanity #omarsuleiman

00:00 Introduction: The True Story Behind the Ramadan Series
02:27 Life in Gaza Today
04:00 A Mother’s Strength Through War
04:44 Holding Onto Faith in the Hardest Moments
05:29 Meet Renad
05:54 A Mother and Daughter Separated by War
07:11 Renad on Her Mother’s Sacrifices
09:16 How Renad Stays Strong Away From Her Mother
10:14 Renad’s Relationship With Allah
11:53 The Heartbreaking Moment Renad Left Gaza
13:33 Holding Onto Her Palestinian Identity & Faith
14:57 A Mother’s Love Across the Distance
16:09 Living With the Pain of Separation
16:47 What Renad Wants the World to Know About Gaza’s Children
17:56 Renad’s Dreams for the Future
19:01 A Prayer for Reunion

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Our attention has become one of the world's most valuable commodities—and we're paying for it in ways we rarely notice.

In this Focal Point, Imam Tom Facchine explores how the attention economy grew from a simple business model into an industry built to capture our focus, shape our habits, and keep us distracted. More importantly, he asks what all of this means for Muslims trying to live with presence, purpose, and khushoo'.

This episode looks beyond social media addiction to the deeper spiritual consequences of living in an age of constant distraction.

In this episode:
— How the attention economy really began
— Why social media and modern apps are designed to keep you scrolling
— What surveillance capitalism is and why it matters
— How distraction affects our worship, focus, and relationship with Allah
— What Islam teaches about attention, time, and guarding the heart
— Practical ways to reclaim your attention in a world competing for it

00:00 The People Who Built Our Phones Won’t Let Their Kids Use Them
01:36 Why Willpower Isn’t the Real Problem
03:15 The Birth of the Attention Economy
05:32 How Media Became Concentrated in a Few Hands
08:05 Your Phone Was Engineered to Be Irresistible
10:14 Surveillance Capitalism: What’s Really Being Sold
12:20 Technofeudalism: When Algorithms Control the Marketplace
13:15 When Surveillance Becomes a Matter of Life and Death
15:37 Addiction, Surveillance & Technofeudalism
15:52 How Algorithms Control What We Notice
16:56 What Social Media Is Doing to Our Attention
18:07 Why Islam Takes Your Time So Seriously
18:56 The Slow Descent We Don’t Notice
19:21 Why We Keep Scrolling Even When We Don’t Enjoy It
19:54 What Constant Scrolling Does to the Heart
20:43 How Social Media Can Affect Our Sincerity
21:31 We’re Losing the Ability to Pay Attention
22:12 Why We Can’t Be Alone With Allah
22:59 When Our Homes & Masjids Lose Their Sanctuary
23:52 How to Rebuild Your Attention
26:02 3 Questions to Ask Before You Scroll or Post
26:31 The Prophet ﷺ & the Power of Full Presence
26:48 Everybody Worships Something
27:18 What Are You Really Obeying?

#attention #fitna #distraction

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Get in on the conversation, connect with others, and share your thoughts, all right from your phone.

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That sin you still think about?

Don’t just feel guilty about it. Make it a reason to return to Allah.

Ask forgiveness for it. And remember who you’re asking: Al-Ghaffar, The Constant Forgiver.

Watch how to seek forgiveness from Allah: https://yqn.io/fdf1e1


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A time will come, the Prophet ﷺ said, when people gather in the masjid and there isn't a single believer among them.

Dr. Omar Suleiman unpacks that warning alongside several others: mosques built to compete rather than to function, mushafs that grow more beautiful while fewer people actually read them, and a Companion who wept after watching someone recite the Qur'an for payment.

This episode of Signs of the Hour asks a harder question than whether our masjid is beautiful enough. It asks whether there's still a living faith inside it.

0:00 - Introduction
2:28 - Religion as Form Without Substance
3:39 - People Will Boast About Their Masjid
6:34 - Masjid Rivalries
14:46 - The Qu’ran: Decorated and Deserted?
20:44 - Mosques as Tourist Destinations
23:54 - A Heart Attached to the Masjid
28:37 - When Religion Becomes Content

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It’s easy to care deeply about one part of Islam and slowly neglect another.

We can become so focused on the suffering around us that salah starts to feel secondary. Or so focused on personal piety that the suffering around us becomes someone else’s problem.

Allah never asked us to choose between the two.

Watch the full khutbah, “Priorities Under Pressure” by Dr. Omar Suleiman: http://yqn.io/e4qh

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Many Muslims assume the best way to protect their faith is simply to move.

But what if your greatest opportunity to serve Islam is exactly where you are?

A conversation every Muslim living in the West should hear. Watch the full video with Imam Tom Facchine: https://yqn.io/244a34

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The Prophet ﷺ himself was unsure if this young boy was the Dajjal.

Watch Episode 3 of Signs of the Hour, "A Secret Investigation in Medina," for the full story: http://yqn.io/fo8y

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Some of the most powerful stories in our tradition aren't about people who never sinned.

They're about what repentance, mercy, and restoration actually look like after someone does.

Watch the full episode, “The Cousin Who Tested Abu Bakr (ra).” with Dr. Omar Suleiman: https://yqn.io/18a2d3

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We live in a culture where every slight can become a microaggression, every disagreement can feel like an attack, and “protect your peace” can sometimes mean cutting people out the moment they make us uncomfortable.

But what happens when we lose the ability to overlook?

The Prophet ﷺ described the believer as samhaa—someone who is gracious, easygoing, and willing to let things go. This doesn’t mean tolerating abuse, ignoring oppression, or refusing to set necessary boundaries. It means learning to distinguish between genuine harm and the ordinary friction of living with imperfect people.

In this khutbah, Dr. Omar Suleiman explores what Islam teaches us about sensitivity, boundaries, forgiveness, and the forgotten strength of overlooking—and asks us to consider whether we’ve made ourselves too quick to take offense, cut people off, and slow to forgive.

00:00 Introduction
01:12 Who The Fire Cannot Touch
02:05 Qarib: Are you approachable?
03:19 Hayyin & Layyin: Are you quick to anger? Gentle?
05:12 Samh: A Forgotten Sunnah
08:14 The Difference Between Samh and Forgiveness
10:07 A Plague of Microaggressions
13:14 Clarifying What Samh Does Not Mean
15:25 Boundaries For Real Patterns of Abuse
18:05 Big Ego or Big Heart?
19:54 “But I’m a sensitive person…”
20:30 Closing Du’a

#khutbah #takeitpersonal #character #omarsuleiman

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