Left or Right? The Straight Path Please

Left or Right? The Straight Path Please


Latest Episodes

First Wave Feminism and The Suffrage Movement: How Is It Relevant to Muslim women??
July 13, 2020

We embark on our study of Western feminism by examining its historical development through the first wave of women's struggle for equality: The suffrage movement. We focus on England as a case study to see how bitterly women fought a decades long battle t

The Straight Path: A Sociological Perspective
July 03, 2020

After exploring the sociological theories of the Right and Left, we turn now to the Islamic scholarly and spiritual tradition to see how our own scholars have observee and theorized society. In this episode, we briefly mention the main concepts of the th

MISK Women Facebook Live #1 Recording
June 25, 2020

MISK Women presented our first FB Live on June 23, 2020 on our private group MISK Women Halaqa. This is an unedited recording of the session, uploaded for those who were unable to attend. The topics covered included the development of MISK, women in Islam

Marxism: Origins, Impacts and Influences
June 18, 2020

Join us in this episode as we explore Marxism, the fundamental ideology of leftist thinking in the contemporary world. Due to the prevalence of Marxist thought in all spheres of political, economic, social and cultural life, it is essential that we deve

The Genealogy of Conservatism: From the Magna Carta to Modernity
June 10, 2020

This episode introduces an historical overview of the political, economic and social philosophies of the Right. We look at the development of 'reason' and the 'reasonable' man who sought freedom, the pursuit of wealth and happiness. How was the Muslim wor

European Colonialism And The Status Quo: From A Surah al-Fatihah Perspective
May 26, 2020

We take a brief overview and analysis of the most significant events in the last 500 years of European history, in order to understand the basis and foundations of modern Western society. What was the dominant vision, mission and method enacted in this ep

Bonus Episode: A Summary of the Surah al-Fatihah Worldview in Six Questions
May 18, 2020

Join us for an overview and roundup of the key concepts in Surah al-Fatihah in six short questions. We are reminded to check ourselves by the question asked of us in the Quran: "Where are you going?" What's your answer?

Part 2 - The Voluntary Journey: Surah al-Fatihah and The Choices We Make in Our Daily Life
May 18, 2020

The Voluntary Journey means the choices that we make in our daily life. What informs our choices and to what extent do our choices reflect our al-Fatihah informed understanding of being on an involuntary journey? In this episode, we look at the second par

Part 1 - The Involuntary Journey: Imam al-Haddad's The Lives of Man
May 11, 2020

In this episode we look at how some of the scholars of our rich, intellectual tradition have conceptualized existence and understood its parts to contain anywhere from one to 100,000 levels of being! We then read selected parts of Imam al-Haddad's book

Part 1 - The Involuntary Journey
May 03, 2020

What is the 'Involuntary Journey'?We establish the first part of our al-Fatihah world view by understanding this fundamental aspect of human existence, from the in the Basmalah to the Yawm al-Din.