Sh. Mikaeel Ahmed Smith - With the Heart in Mind
ReRooted
English - December 24, 2019 13:00 - 56 minutes - 39.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsIslam Religion & Spirituality Society & Culture islam muslim dawah god allah selfhelp life muhammad newmuslim revert Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This episode we are honoured to have Shaykh Mikaeel Ahmed Smith onto the ReRooted podcast. Shaykh Mikaeel Ahmed Smith (Michael V Smith) is an instructor at Qalam. He is a teacher at the Qalam Seminary, and online at Qalam Connect. He travels around the country conducting classes and seminars like Prophetic Empathy.
Shaykh Mikaeel previously served as a resident scholar at the Islamic Society of Annapolis and the Islamic Society of Baltimore. He grew up in a deeply spiritual Christian home in Buffalo, NY. At the age of 18, he embraced Islam after reading the Qur’an and the Autobiography of Malcolm X. He then enrolled at the Dar ul-Uloom al-Madania in Buffalo, NY, where he completed his memorization of the Qur’an. He continued his studies in Jami’a Abu Noor in Damascus, Syria.
In 2012, he earned his Bachelor's Degree in Islamic Studies at the Dar ul-Uloom Canada in Chatham, Ontario. He is the author of With the Heart in Mind, a book exploring the moral and emotional intelligence of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. He currently resides in Dallas, TX with his wife and three children.
You can listen to him regularly on the Qalam Podcast, including the Purification of the Heart series.