Episode 383: Hisham Abu Yusuf

Freshly Grounded

Faisal & Sam

Muslimpodcast, Freshlygrounded, Islam, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 941 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

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Ustadh Hisham Abu Yusuf is not your typical influencer. In fact, he hates social media. And yet, through a divine twist, his words have reached millions.

In this powerful episode of Freshly Grounded, Ustadh Hisham opens up about:

👉 His viral Names of Allah series and why it resonated so deeply.
👉 The emotional depth and research behind each lesson.
👉 His reflections on sincerity, fame, and being a “reluctant influencer.”
👉 Insights from his role at Tarteel AI and why it’s different from other AI apps.
👉 How working as a Muslim chaplain exposed him to the raw, unfiltered reality of young Muslims struggling with faith, identity, and trauma.
👉 The prophetic secret to calmness, productivity, and long-term resilience.
👉 The Musa (AS) story like you’ve never heard it before — as a framework for processing trauma and finding meaning in our most painful moments.

We also dive deep into topics like Arabic language revival, toxic teaching, and the dangerous illusions of self-help culture.

This isn’t just a conversation, it’s a perspective shift.

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0:00.0	Some people love social media, some people live on social media, but this person, he hates social media and still pulled in half a million followers who love his content.
0:10.0	He's a graduate of Al-Azhar, head of growth at Tertil AI, a data and AI specialist,
0:15.0	Khatib, father, thought leader, the man behind the viral series on the Nice and Our Names of Allah, a reluctant influencer, but a necessary voice.
0:22.5	He didn't chase their numbers. The numbers chased him. Please welcome Ustahad Hisham Abu Yusuf.
0:29.2	That is a ridiculous in production but it is accurate how are you doing al-hambalah very well have you
0:38.0	how you've been missed this is a long time coming it is it has been i have been i have been late yes
0:43.7	you you are late but this is even for me this is yeah this is this is late subhannal but it's fine
0:49.6	look we got the karak there's a bit of a kithalaf on uh type of carac at the shop, but ahmdhah.
0:57.0	This is not a discussion of superiority.
1:00.0	Uh, sheikh, 13, first of all, how is it, how is it going?
1:05.0	I feel like, I don't know what's happening anymore.
1:08.0	How is Tertile going? Like, what's, how's it been? Are you guys, are
1:13.2	you guys, you guys, you guys are finally free of my, of my over-talking and my, uh, and my rapid, erratic
1:20.5	decision-making, I should say. Tartile without you is like tea without sugar. It's flat, so on,
1:26.3	but healthier. Is that, it's the thing that they tell you is healthy,
1:30.7	but when you taste it, you have like a look on your face like, please. Yeah, it's missing the,
1:35.3	it's missing the zinc that you bring. Al-Hamda-Lah. I think the whole team feels that. And also there's a,
1:41.3	I was looking through your page the other day and I was seeing even
1:44.9	in your facial chadjury content, there was always a tertile logo in the background.
1:48.9	Like it was, you were, you and Tertil was like married everywhere you went.
1:53.7	No, we still are.
1:54.7	No, don't say that we still are.
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