Heart and Soul: Religion in the 21st Century: Islam
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
What does it mean to be a young Muslim in the world today? In the first of three discussion programmes looking at religion in the 21st century, a panel of young Muslims look at Islam and discuss their hopes, feelings and grievances on how they see their religion shaping up in the modern era.
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| 0:00.0 | World of Secrets, Season 2, investigates allegations surrounding one of the most powerful religious figures of the 21st century, TB Joshua. |
| 0:10.0 | Search for World of Secrets wherever wherever you get your BBC Podcasts. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to the documentary on the BBC World Service and a special edition of Heart and Soul. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Yasminh Fettun-Duwan, and this is a first in a three-part series where we'll be exploring religion |
| 0:25.2 | in the 21st century and specifically how young people rationalize their faith and try |
| 0:31.0 | and practice thousands of years old scripture in today's modern world. |
| 0:35.0 | Today's episode focuses on Islam and I myself am a practicing Muslim |
| 0:40.0 | and my faith is important to me, helping me navigate many things in my day-to-day life. |
| 0:46.0 | I am, as some of you who will have seen me, know, visibly Muslim, through my adoption of the hijab. |
| 0:52.0 | We have three guests with me today from around the world. |
| 0:55.0 | Let's hear from them. |
| 0:56.0 | Hello, my name is Osman Hafiz. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm an 18-year-old high school student in the United States. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm originally from Sudan. I've spent my |
| 1:03.8 | adolescents growing up in Saudi Arabia, Sudan in America across all three, but I've |
| 1:08.3 | been in America for most of my life. I'm one of the brothers from the Dientor |
| 1:12.2 | podcast and the social media platform. |
| 1:14.6 | Most of you might know me from Islamic trivia and whatnot. |
| 1:17.5 | And we've accumulated over 700,000 followers. |
| 1:20.3 | I've written my first book and yeah I'm gonna live. |
| 1:24.0 | Hi I'm Kazna Aska and I'm a fashion designer from Sheffield in the UK. |
| 1:29.0 | My work combines my Yemeni heritage with my British upbringing and the Middle Eastern traditions with being a minority in the UK. |
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