IslamicFinanceGuru Podcasts
Islamic Finance Guru
The Islamic Finance Guru Podcasts are a series of podcasts aimed at bringing money matters to the forefront of the Muslim community. We've got something for everyone, from our popular Millionaire Muslim podcast where we discuss halal investments, personal finance and entrepreneurship! We also give you a spiritual kick with regular business/finance-focused Qur'an tafseer sessions! Or hear the IFG team discuss current affairs in our fortnightly news round-up!
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Jul 21, 2020 • 42min
E84: lessons from a startup founder on failure and emerging from it
Join us in this fascinating interview with Mags Chilaev, founder of jamma.co - a quora-style platform for immigrant communities. Lots of amazing lessons here about being a startup founder!
Jul 14, 2020 • 1h
E83: Interview with Islamic Finance expert - Umer Suleman
In this episode, Ibrahim interviews Umer Suleman, director of 360 Risk and Islamic Finance expert. He talks about his journey into Islamic Finance and shares plenty of interesting stories from the years gone by!
Jul 9, 2020 • 39min
E82: Is Your Job Haram or Halal? W/Mufti Faraz Adam [PART 3] [LIVE]
The third and final part of a really interesting 3-part session with Mufti Faraz discussing all things careers. As always, it's all about giving *you* the tools to understand how to navigate this tricky question! If you've not listened to the others first then head over to episodes 80 and 81!
Jul 6, 2020 • 32min
E81: Is Your Job Haram or Halal? W/Mufti Faraz Adam [PART 2] [LIVE]
This is the second part of a really interesting 3-part session with Mufti Faraz discussing all things careers. As always, it's all about giving *you* the tools to understand how to navigate this tricky question!
Jul 1, 2020 • 33min
E80: Is Your Job Haram or Halal? W/Mufti Faraz Adam [PART 1] [LIVE]
The first part of a really interesting 3-part session with Mufti Faraz discussing all things careers. As always, it's all about giving *you* the tools to understand how to navigate this tricky question!
Jun 28, 2020 • 39min
E79: Retiring before 40 - business lessons from Sufyan Ismail [PART 2] [LIVE]
In this episode which was aired as a YouTube Live, we interview Sufyan Ismail - businessman-turned-philanthropist. Sufyan started life out at Deloitte before going on to start his own business. Sufyan then stopped working on his business before 40 in order to found MEND - an organisation aimed at helping Muslims to get into media and politics. A fascinating character with lots of lessons - so many that we had to split it up in two parts! If you've not listened to part 1 yet, go to episode 77 and come back!
Jun 15, 2020 • 48min
E78: how to save for university and avoid student loans
We're exploring the important topic of student loans. Putting aside their sharia compliance or otherwise for a second, we run through in a really pragmatic way (with the benefit of our hindsight and experience) why avoiding student loans is a good thing full stop - and exactly how you can do it!
Jun 9, 2020 • 44min
E77: Retiring before 40 - business lessons from Sufyan Ismail [PART 1] [LIVE]
In this episode which was aired as a YouTube Live, we interview Sufyan Ismail - businessman-turned-philanthropist. Sufyan started life out at Deloitte before going on to start his own business. Sufyan then stopped working on his business before 40 in order to found MEND - an organisation aimed at helping Muslims to get into media and politics. A fascinating character with lots of lessons - so many that we had to split it up in two parts!
May 25, 2020 • 52min
E76: How I got my Islamic Channel on to Amazon
This episode we chat with Navid Akhter, who successfully got his Islamic channel on to Amazon Prime.
May 13, 2020 • 24min
E75: hacks to save for a deposit
We know lots of you are struggling to save for a deposit so we got together and racked our brains to help give you folks some helpful tips and hacks on how you can speed up the process insha'Allah!
