ROOTED | Ep. 2 — "He Came Home Different"

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In a generation pulled in every direction, ROOTED is a series about the ones who stayed grounded. The scholars who sat at the feet of their teachers and carried the tradition home. Sh Muhammad West is one of the few in his generation who carries two worlds at once. A graduate of the Islamic University of Madina and a chartered accountant. The imam of one of the oldest masajid in the country, Boorhanol Islam in the Bo-Kaap, and the treasurer of the Muslim Judicial Council. He is the Madina graduate who refused to come home and cut himself off from the community he disagrees with on secondary matters. He chose the harder road, the road of staying in the room. In this conversation, we sit with the formation of a scholar in Jeddah and Madina, the texture of his return, the Athari and Shafi'i fault lines, the cost of refusing tribalism, the romantic but halal proposal, the autistic son who is the happiest person he knows, the burnout he is only now learning to name, and the institution he is now responsible for the finances of. We talk about the MJC honestly. What it is, what it is not, why our forefathers thought it was non-negotiable, and what the path forward looks like for an organisation eighty years old that is finally being asked to explain itself. A conversation between two scholars and a long-time colleague about formation, friction, and the institutional servant’s reckoning. This is your deen. You deserve to understand it. 00:00 Cold open: just die as a Muslim 00:22 Opening monologue 02:25 Quick-fire opener 07:43 Jeddah as a child 10:50 Madina University from the inside 13:18 Coming home in 2011 17:45 The parents' search across Malaysia, Egypt, Jeddah 22:30 The mother's record 27:40 The maternal grandfather and the Silo gym call 33:30 The Madina student years 39:20 Teaching the Sirah from a minority lens 49:20 The Woolworths meeting 52:00 Athari, Salafi, and the time and place for debate 57:00 Sami Hamdi and the politics of Quran and Sunnah 01:00:40 Palestine and the heart right now 01:11:30 Just talk to Allah 01:17:25 The Romantic Proposal 01:21:00 The life of an alim's wife 01:31:30 Burnout and sharpening the saw 01:33:50 The MJC: what it actually is 01:46:35 Baytul Ulama in the absence of a Khalifa 01:55:50 Living with politics 01:57:55 Final advice for the seeker 02:00:00 The point of all of this #ROOTED #IsnadAcademy #IslamicScholarship

ROOTED | Ep. 1 — "He Went to the Source" | Shaykh Zaid Fataar Al-Azhari

We live in a time when anyone can upload an Islamic video and call themselves a scholar. But Islam has never been carried that way. It has always moved from teacher to student, across generations, all the way back to the Prophet ﷺ. That chain has a name: isnād. ROOTED is Isnad Academy's flagship interview series — conversations with South Africa's qualified Islamic scholars. The people who went to the source and came home. Rooted in tradition. Routed through the chain. Our first guest embodies both. Shaykh Zaid ibn Riad Fataar Al-Azhari left Cape Town at the age of six for Cairo, where he would spend the better part of his life inside one of the oldest universities on earth. At Al-Azhar he memorised the Qur'an, completed his Diploma in Islamic Sciences, and earned his BA in Islamic Theology — specialising in Aqīdah and Philosophy. He studied privately with Egyptian scholars, receiving ijāzāt in Hadith and Aqīdah. He returned to Cape Town, completed his Masters at the Madina Institute with a thesis on Al-Ghazali and Ibn Rushd — Revelation versus Reason — and has been serving the community ever since as imam, teacher, and founder of Dar At-Tawhid Institute. He currently serves as Head of Department for Islamic Studies at the Oracle Academy. He is, in the truest sense, a scholar who went to the source — and came back to us. In this conversation we cover: — What it means to grow up as a Cape Town child inside the Azhar world — The moment knowledge stopped being something forced and became something wanted — What isnād actually is and why it matters in an age when any fatwa is a Google search away — The three levels of ijāzah — and what each one actually authorises you to do — Why sitting with a scholar gives you something no YouTube video, PDF, or AI can replicate — The nūr of prophethood — and why it only travels heart to heart — How the ādāb of the scholars changed Shaykh Zaid more than their knowledge did — A real talāq case that showed exactly why wisdom cannot come from a book alone — The difference between being religious and performing religiosity — What our generation of scholars carries differently — and what that demands of us — What to say to a young Muslim who wants knowledge but doesn't know where to start or who to trust This is not a wellness podcast. This is not a highlight reel. This is a conversation about what it actually means to carry knowledge — and what Cape Town has quietly been producing for generations. ROOTED. Every episode, one scholar. One chain. One city at the bottom of Africa with more to offer the world than most people know. Isnad Academy is based in Cape Town, South Africa. Our mission is to connect the global Muslim community to authenticated Islamic scholarship — through live teaching, recorded courses, and platforms like ROOTED that make our scholars visible to the world. New episodes drop regularly. Subscribe and turn on notifications so you don't miss the next conversation. #IsnadAcademy #ROOTED #IslamicScholarship #SouthAfrica #CapeTown #Azhar #Isnad #IslamicKnowledge #MuslimPodcast #Ulama 00:00 — A Family Almost Broke Up (Cold Open) 00:12 — Welcome to ROOTED | Series Introduction 05:00 — Quick Fire: Coffee, Cairo & Astronomy 09:45 — Cairo at Six: Growing Up as a Foreigner 18:00 — The Quran is Everywhere in Egypt 22:00 — When Knowledge Became a Choice 31:00 — The Fish in the Tank: Entering the University 38:00 — The Turning Point: The Ādāb of the Scholars 44:00 — What is Isnād and Why Should You Care? 51:00 — The Soul Operation 57:00 — What is an Ijāzah? Three Levels Explained 01:02:00 — What a Teacher Gives You That a PDF Cannot 01:09:00 — The Nūr of Prophethood: Heart to Heart 01:12:00 — Egypt's Politics and the Colonisers' Legacy 01:23:00 — The FBI Story: Freedom We Take for Granted 01:29:00 — Do We Carry the Tradition Differently? 01:35:00 — The Worrying Trend: Religion as Fashion 01:52:00 — The Exciting Trend: Scholars in the University 02:03:00 — Final Advice to Young Seekers of Knowledge 02:08:00 — What's Coming from Isnad Academy

25. Apr. 20262 h 11 min

ROOTED | Ep. 2 — "He Came Home Different" | Sh Muhammad West

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