The AlMaghrib Podcast
The Root of All Pain Is Not Knowing Allah
With Ust. Hisham Abu Yusuf and Sh. Ammar AlShukry49 minOct 17, 2026105K views
Ustadh Hisham Abu Yusuf spent 7 years as a university chaplain sitting with students through anxiety, depression and doubt. One thread kept coming up. They didn't really know Allah. "The root of all pain is distance from Allah," he says, "and the root of all dysfunction is not truly knowing Him."
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In this episode
- 0:00 Intro
- 2:06 How each of them started teaching the names of Allah
- 7:05 "We have a name for that"
- 10:07 What happens when people meet Allah through His names
- 16:34 Why the names at the end of a verse matter
- 17:27 Surah Al-Buruj and making sense of suffering
- 26:10 They can't touch the Quran
- 27:43 Their go-to names: Al-Hayy Al-Qayyum and Al-Latif
- 31:32 Why Ar-Rahman appears 16 times in Surah Maryam
- 34:43 Ash-Shakur: so much for so little
- 38:30 "I know Allah, and you don't"
- 41:15 How a wrong image of God leads to atheism
- 45:11 Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem
About the show
Long conversations with scholars, imams and the people building Muslim communities, hosted by Sh. Ammar AlShukry. New episodes on YouTube.
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