The “self” is that thing within us that makes us alive. It makes us who we are and it gives us our identity. It is the soul. We take this soul, either in its original beauty, or in its corrupted form, with us through the three lives that we experience after we die and from there into eternal bliss or eternal damnation.

Why do we die? A materialist might answer that we die because our body stops working—our breathing, our heartbeat, our brain activity, everything, stops. The materialist is wrong—although our death is accompanied by bodily changes, death is not those bodily changes themselves, but something else related to the soul.

The global monoculture has done away with true love. Most of us no longer understand what it means to truly love another human being and, by extension, what it means to truly love God. Osama Hassan chats with Hamza Karamali on the relationship between worship, slavehood, love of God, and love of other human beings.

We live in a world that is heavily influenced by a worldview grounded in modern scientific reasoning that seeks to explain the universe without any reference to God. Osama Hassan chats with Hamza Karamali about Aristotle, the medieval Catholic church, science, the modern disinterest in religion, and the role of Islam in helping us discover the purpose of our lives.

Hamza Karamali unpacks a traditional Islamic definition of “deen” (commonly translated into English as “religion) to open up a conversation with Osama Hassan about why Islam is not a political ideology, the Age of Enlightenment, rational and spiritual proofs for the truth of a religion, and how Islam fills a modern spiritual void to bring us true happiness in the 21st century.