OnePath Podcast

In this OnePath Podcast, Raz returns two years on to share 42 days studying in Syria with no program and no teachers lined up. She takes us inside a Hadith school founded, taught and attended entirely by women, a tradition that during the war survived in homes and hidden study circles, and tells the story of being told a class was cancelled, only to end up sitting front row beside the school’s founder.

We also talk honestly about imposter syndrome, why manners must come before knowledge, how consistency changed far more than her studies, five years since she put on the hijab, and why the Hadith rejection noise online looks very different once you have seen the people preserving it.

Raz Aziz is a Sydney-based Muslim influencer, youth worker and community advocate of Kurdish background. She studies Arabic and Hadith weekly with her teacher in Sydney and documented her time studying in Damascus through daily Arabic vlogs.
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Fifty years ago, a young Englishman educated to run an Empire that no longer existed staged the largest celebration of Islamic civilisation the West had ever seen. Six months before it opened, he became Muslim. In this OnePath Podcast, Ahmed Paul Keeler sits down with us to tell that story, and to deliver a warning for a world in crisis.

Raised to believe Britain was the greatest civilisation in history and brought up a Zionist, how did one of the British establishment's own find his way to Islam? Why does he describe modernity as a cult, a creation of the human imagination cut off from reality? And why does he believe the Golden Age story Muslims love to tell may be doing us more harm than good?

We explore the Mizan, the divine balance at the heart of his work, why so many Muslims blame their own weak faith for the decline of their civilisation, and what it means to see our history through the eyes of the conqueror. Ahmed Paul Keeler argues that Muslims must recover their own story before they can offer it to anyone else, and that in an age of storms, our task is to bear witness to the truth and provide a refuge.

Ahmed Paul Keeler was born in 1942 and was the founder and director of the World of Islam Festival, held in London in 1976 and opened by Her Majesty the Queen, the most comprehensive exposition of Islamic culture ever staged in the West. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, and the author of Rethinking Islam & the West: A New Narrative for the Age of Crises, in which he introduced the Mizan Thesis, and A Life's Journey: The Story Behind the Book.
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In this OnePath Podcast, Dr. Yasir Qadhi joins us for a frank conversation about what it means to live as a Muslim in the West today: our responsibility before Allah, to our families, and to the communities we call home.

Dr. Qadhi shares his perspective on the rise of Muslim politicians such as Zohran Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed, why he does not endorse candidates, and why no politician will ever be our saviour. He also speaks candidly about the idealism behind migration.

We also discuss the revival among young Muslims since Gaza, how online division distorts the reality of our communities, his first visit to Syria, the lessons of Salahuddin, and the spiritual cost of handing our thinking over to AI.

Dr. Yasir Qadhi is the Dean of the Islamic Seminary of America, the Resident Scholar at the East Plano Islamic Center in Texas, and the Chairman of the Fiqh Council of North America.
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Your phone knows where you go, who you speak to, and what you search at 2am. In this Expert Q&A, cybersecurity specialist Ahmed Khanji explains who wants that data, how they get it, and what you can do to protect yourself.

From Pegasus, the military grade spyware that sits on a phone without leaving a visible trace, to new police powers in New South Wales to extract data from your device, to data brokers feeding companies like Palantir, how exposed are we really? Can deleted messages be recovered? Is your phone listening to you? And what happens to everything you tell AI chatbots?

At the end of the episode, we hand Ahmed a phone and ask him to check it for spyware.

Ahmed Khanji is the Chief Executive Officer of Gridware, a Sydney-based specialist cybersecurity firm founded in 2017. Gridware provides penetration testing, digital forensics and incident response, managed security, and cyber advisory to organisations across Australia, and was named SIEM Provider of the Year at the 2025 Australian Cybersecurity Awards. Having worked on more than a thousand cyber attacks, Ahmed brings a frontline view of how criminals, corporations, and governments access personal data.
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For most Muslims, faith sits on one side and work sits on the other. In this OnePath Podcast, Omar DaCosta-Shahid argues that the separation is a recent invention, and that asking whether your income is halal is only the beginning of the question.

If more than half of our waking life is spent working, what does it mean to make that work an act of worship? We explore why the ethical order of no harm first, then benefit, then profit, is the exact reverse of how most businesses operate, what the classical Islamic literature on trade and earning actually says, whether behaving ethically really costs you money, and how the Prophetic model of trade followed by withdrawal applies to a life of relentless deadlines. The conversation also turns to the harder questions. Does wealth change people for the better or the worse? Why do brands stay silent on Gaza? And is any of this just a spiritual pacifier for capitalism?

Omar DaCosta-Shahid is an entrepreneur, public speaker and educator who specialises in integrating Islamic spiritual principles with modern business practice. He studies classical works on earning and trade with scholars in the UK and Malaysia, and has completed a two-year part-time group study in
Islamic finance with Mufti Faraz Adam (“The
Messenger’s Money Morals”).

Before this he advised Fortune 500 companies on the Muslim market and worked as a journalist for The Guardian, The Times, The Independent and the New Statesman, writing on religion and politics. He founded the Muslim Influencer Network in 2017 and now runs Spirituality of Business, a platform built on the premise of business as a path to God. He is a Forbes 30 Under 30 listee and has been named among the UK's most influential Muslims in media.
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