Assalamu alaykum,
As I begin my own spiritual journey, I want to hear from those who have taken this path before me. This podcast focuses on them and listening to their stories - uninterrupted. My name is Hebah Masood. I invite you to reflect on the trajectories of their lives, and the guidance and blessings provided by Allah swt, along that journey.

In this episode, I'm joined by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani, the founder of Seekers Guidance Global Islamic Seminary. He gives a great contemporary history lesson into Islamic scholarship in North America today and how a group of University of Toronto MSA students were inspired to go and acquire sacred knowledge in the late 1990s. He travelled with his wife, Ustadha Shireen Ahmed, to Syria, Jordan and Pakistan to learn from some of the most renowned scholars of our time. He then returned to Canada to begin Seekers, where students of all levels - like me - have been able to access Islamic knowledge for free. His story is particularly inspiring for me because I too went to the University of Toronto and was involved in the MSA.

His story intersects with many familiar names: Shaykh Nuh Keller and his wife Umm Sahl, Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad, Shaykh Talal Ahdab, Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, Shaykh Yahya Rhodus, Shaykh Jihad Hashim Brown,