Islamic Finance Guru
243 episodes
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!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
IslamicFinanceGuru Podcasts treats Muslim money decisions as questions of faith, family duty, ambition, and practical responsibility.
IslamicFinanceGuru Podcasts works the Religion & Spirituality lane through money, work, inheritance, entrepreneurship, and ambition. The feed shifts between interviews, lecture-style talks, and practical explainers, with Islamic categories brought directly into financial…
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A sober critique of get-rich-fast status performance and the burden of looking successful.
The episode works best as a critique of get-rich-fast aspiration rather than a broad culture-war argument. It ties debt, designer signals, and staged success to a deeper concern about faith, purpose, and masculinity, and it keeps pressing on the distance between looking…
A grounded founder story about fragrance, craft, and staying humble after scaling.
A fragrance founder's climb from selling out of a van to a 20 million turnover business gives this conversation its arc, but the more interesting part is how the brand's taste sharpened as it grew.
A grounded case for treating charity as serious operational work, not a Ramadan-only habit.
The piece treats charity as a discipline, not a seasonal gesture. It starts by pushing back on the idea that giving in Ramadan and hoping for the best is enough, then moves into the practical work of incentives, pay, and the systems needed to keep charity work running at scale.
A Muslim founder story that treats business, belief, and identity as one question.
A Muslim founder story anchors the discussion, but it does not stay inside startup biography. It moves from council-estate life in Oldham to bullying, then to the drift and uncertainty of university, and it keeps returning to a harder question: how does a Muslim build something…
A faith-driven Bitcoin discussion that treats crypto as a question of value, control, and halal money.
The episode tracks a Muslim finance conversation that moves from a pivot out of medical school into crypto, then settles on Bitcoin as a way to hold value and keep direct control over an asset.
Wealth is framed as a strategic duty to build institutions and capacity, not just to accumulate.
The episode treats Muslim wealth less as a moral badge than as a practical question. It argues that communities need institutions, research, and productive capacity if they want to shape their own future, and it keeps the focus on means rather than slogans.
A clear case for reading the Quran as guidance, not just recitation.
This episode makes a blunt point: recitation is not the finish line. The Quran is presented as something to understand, sit with, and then follow, and the discussion keeps pulling that idea back toward money, inheritance, riba, and charity instead of leaving it at devotion alone.
A sober look at death, wills, inheritance, and the cost of leaving planning undone.
This episode starts from death and keeps the focus on what comes after: wills, inheritance, default civil rules, and the friction that follows when planning is left unfinished.
Serious Islamic reminders for pressured lives.
Friday from the minbar, Birmingham.
Salafi lessons from text to practice.
Contemplative Islamic teaching for inward practice.
Islamic teaching with moral weight.
Ibrahim, founder of IslamicFinanceGuru, narrates his journey from leaving a six-figure law job to building a multi-million dollar Islamic finance business.
Arfa Farooq traces Muslimic Makers and Muslim Tech Fest back to her early London tech days in 2012-2013, when she entered tech at 21 or 22 and noticed how few people looked like her.
The host starts with death, because that is what puts inheritance in sharp focus.
Shanaz shares what it was like growing up on a council estate in Oldham after moving from Kerala.
The conversation treats the image as a mix of status anxiety, debt, and borrowed confidence.
Mohammed Nazanwan, co-founder of Holy Land Dates Limited, says he and his wife started the company in 2016 after a 2014 trip to Palestine and commit at least 50% of net profits to Palestinian or other causes.
Ibrahim Al-Kurd describes turning about 2k into about 12k through early Bitcoin arbitrage, then building a crypto-mining service business that reached 2 million in first-year sales while he was still in medical school.
Shaykh Dr Suhaib Saeed joins the podcast in Scotland.
The conversation opens with a blunt question about whether it is wrong for a Muslim to be rich.
Ibrahim, host of IslamicFinanceGuru Podcasts and founder of Curate Capital, argues that $100,000 is the first wealth milestone that changes how a low-income earner thinks and lives.
Abid traces the brand's rise from van sales to a £20 million business.
Omar and Zak Bamji walk through how their family built Seeker Foods from humble beginnings into a business with $100 million in turnover.
Comprehensive guide to Bitcoin from Islamic finance perspective.
Ibrahim from IslamicFinanceGuru identifies 13 common ways Muslims waste money, from luxury cars and lavish weddings to forgotten subscriptions and avoiding halal investments.
The host shares five AI-proof side hustle ideas for 2026, drawing from his personal journey of turning an Islamic finance writing side hustle into a $175 million investment business.
This segment introduces Uthman ibn Affan's hidden business strategies for amassing enormous wealth, based on authentic early Islamic sources, and previews seven secrets to his financial success.
Sonny says his company Dinnershare grew by serving Instagram food sellers, reached 1,000 users in one night, and later faced a COVID shock when its systems broke and investors stopped answering calls.
Comprehensive educational video on halal investing principles and practice.
Ibrahim provides deep expert analysis of Fida, an innovative Islamic home financing company claiming to offer a purer Sharia-compliant alternative to traditional Home Purchase Plans.
Mohammed Paracha says he should have started investing much earlier, only became active after becoming a partner at Norton Rose, and now prefers dollar-cost averaging into equities rather than trying to time the US market.
IslamicFinanceGuru Podcasts frames charity as "a flourishing commitment to God, underpinned by highly effective social ventures," and Rizwan links that idea to Funders in Good, National Zakat Foundation, and Sheikh Fahim Al-Anam's influence.
It opens with death in view.
IslamicFinanceGuru Podcasts centers on Epic City, a 400-acre project in Collin County and Hunt County near Josephine, Texas, led by Imran Chaudhary of Epic Mosque and Community Capital Partners.
Ibrahim Khan argues that Islamic finance has often copied conventional products, but says newer fintechs such as Wahid, Nestor, Faida, and Offa are trying to solve Muslim-specific problems from first principles.
Muhammad Fares discusses the Barakah culture model of productivity, contrasting it with hustle culture to offer a God-centered, Akhira-focused approach.