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Travel Is Mutual Unveiling: A Conversation with Sacred Footsteps
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English - April 16, 2020 20:10 - 1 hour - 56.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsDocumentary Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality Islam sunni sufi muslims muslim american spirituality sufism islam religion muslim american islam Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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What We Talk About In This Episode
How this period of quarantine has affected our content/the way we work.Travel as a mutual ‘unveiling’ (in the Arabic language) and what this means.Guinea Bissau: conversion of tribes to Islam after an elder, Maulana, dreamt of the Prophet (saw)- and how Imran’s experience visiting the country was transformative for him.How vulnerability whilst travelling can lead one to have a greater sense of tawwakul, reliance upon God.Finding meaning in times of crisis.Finding the deeper meaning in art and architecture; how the state of the artist/architect affects your soul.Indonesia- visiting the Wali Songo, the ‘Nine Saints.’Yemeni traders; how they brought Islam to the region, and the way in which they interacted with the local population and culture, including through music and shadow puppet plays.The tombs of the saints in Java.Preserving and connecting with tradition.How Sacred Footsteps started and what it has become.How travel can be transformative and the importance of intention.Things / People Mentioned in this Episode
SF contributor Shahroze Khan – Wazir Khan mosque Insta Story.Mimar Sinan – Ottoman architectWali SongoSalahuddin Mazhary – Chechnya Podcast and Insta Story Murabit al Hajj‘A Mauritanian Retreat: In Search of Murabit al Hajj’ by Zara ChoudharyAmerican Submitter is a podcast about Muslims in the West and the spiritual teachings of Islam hosted by Imran Ali Malik. Through a combination of long form conversation, audio documentary, and reflective narration the listener gets the personal story of a religious life. American Submitter attempts to translate what it means to be a conscious Muslim in America by measuring the spiritual teachings of Islam with the reality of Muslims finding their way while living at the western edge of civilization. LISTEN HERE.
Imran Ali Malik is a radio journalist based in Oakland, California. Connect with him on Twitter and Instagram.