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Millionaire Muslim by islamicfinanceguru.com is a podcast designed for ambitious Muslims. We discuss halal investments, personal finance, entrepreneurship and ways that will kickstart you to being the best version of yourself! We also give you a spiritual kick with regular business/finance-focused Qur'an tafseer sessions.
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E101: How to invest halal without losing all your hair!
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As always at IFG we're always keen on helping people with their investing journeys. Check out this snippet by Ibrahim on how to invest halal without losing all your hair (Mohsin couldn't do this episode for obvious reasons...).
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E100: Expat Uzbekistanis working on "Quranera"
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Check out our fun interview with the founders (Maruf and Nadir) of Quranera, a fun way to teach quran to kids. The founder are both Uzbeki and now based in Australia and Canada. Definitely one to listen to.
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E99: The Incredible Story of a $X00,000,000 Business Built in 3 Years | Powerry
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We had the pleasure of interviewing Abdumalik Mirakhmedov and Andrey Kim - the co-founders of Powerry and Scalo Technologies. They hail from Uzbekistan/Kazakhstan and have built amazing 9-figure businesses from scratch in that part of the world. We can't reveal the exact amount due to confidentiality but it's big! Borat gives a bad name to Kazakhst…
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E98: a successful business man from the community - Aftab's story
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Check out our interview with Aftab - an IFG fan and very much one of us from the community. Listen as he talks about his non-entrepreneurial background, working in McDonald's at 16, getting into pharmacy after university, before then setting up his own successful businesses. An inspiration from the community!…
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E97: Sheikh Haitham talking Islamic Finance
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Join us for this fascinating interview where we spoke to Sheikh Hatham al Haddad!
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E96: Side incomes that actually work during COVID
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Listen to our musings on side incomes that actually work!
Join us as we get a sneak peek into a company that has changed the face of halal investing globally - Wahed Invest.
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E94: Kestrl - interview with founder Areeb
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Check out our interview with Kestrl founder Areeb Siddiqui!
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Transform Your Prayer - And Why That Makes you Happier and Richer
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We caught up with Iqbal Nasim the CEO of National Zakat Foundation who has now launched a new initiative to level up our prayer. Most of us zip through our prayers without attention, enjoyment, or even understanding. But then what's the point? And how do we fix this malaise? We go into all this and more in this podcast. You can find out more about …
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E92: What I wish I knew about money when I was 18
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The IFG team shares some roundtable thoughts on what we all wish we knew about money when we were 18!
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E91: Is Forex halal or haram? An insider view
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In this short snippet, we explain the insider details on forex trading and whether it's halal or haram.
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E90: Dr Suriyah Bi: fighting for a better Equality Act
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Check out our interview with Dr Suriyah Bi (Oxford grad, PhD at UCL and Yale, lecturer at SOAS) and her research on Muslim women's experiences of work and career development. Suriyah is campaigning hard to make the Equality Act fairer.
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E89: normalising insect consumption - interview with Mohammed Ashour, co-founder of Aspire Food Group
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Check out this fascinating interview with Mohammed Ashour co-founder of Aspire Food Group who have managed to raise a large sum of money! Mohammed shares his valuable tips and advice.
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E88: Interview with Arfah from Muslamic Makers
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Muslamic Makers is a fantastic initiative helping Muslims to kickstart their tech career and network with Muslim mentors. Check out our interview with the founder, Arfah!
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E87: Qardus - Halal Finance for SME Businesses
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Qardus is a very exciting new startup that provides halal financing for SME Businesses. If you are a business looking for financing you can apply here: https://www.islamicfinanceguru.com/sharia-compliant-sme-finance/ If you are an investor looking to invest in fixed income you can sign up to Qardus here: https://islamicfinanceguru.typeform.com/to/F…
We talk to Layla Begum, an ordinary person like you and me, who unfortunately like many Muslims, fell prey to the OneCoin scam. We talk in-depth to her about her story. A must-listen. And if you've not watched it already, check out our documentary on the dark truth behind MLM schems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nztyeDBIAvM…
Tune in for a very insightful interview with Nohman Ahmed, co-founder at Crep Protect, and how they went from launch to becoming a household name partnering with big names like Footlocker and JD Sports.
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E84: lessons from a startup founder on failure and emerging from it
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Join us in this fascinating interview with Mags Chilaev, founder of jamma.co - a quora-style platform for immigrant communities. Lots of amazing lessons here about being a startup founder!
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E83: Interview with Islamic Finance expert - Umer Suleman
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In this episode, Ibrahim interviews Umer Suleman, director of 360 Risk and Islamic Finance expert. He talks about his journey into Islamic Finance and shares plenty of interesting stories from the years gone by!
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E82: Is Your Job Haram or Halal? W/Mufti Faraz Adam [PART 3] [LIVE]
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The third and final part of a really interesting 3-part session with Mufti Faraz discussing all things careers. As always, it's all about giving *you* the tools to understand how to navigate this tricky question! If you've not listened to the others first then head over to episodes 80 and 81!
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E81: Is Your Job Haram or Halal? W/Mufti Faraz Adam [PART 2] [LIVE]
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This is the second part of a really interesting 3-part session with Mufti Faraz discussing all things careers. As always, it's all about giving *you* the tools to understand how to navigate this tricky question!
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E80: Is Your Job Haram or Halal? W/Mufti Faraz Adam [PART 1] [LIVE]
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The first part of a really interesting 3-part session with Mufti Faraz discussing all things careers. As always, it's all about giving *you* the tools to understand how to navigate this tricky question!
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E79: Retiring before 40 - business lessons from Sufyan Ismail [PART 2] [LIVE]
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In this episode which was aired as a YouTube Live, we interview Sufyan Ismail - businessman-turned-philanthropist. Sufyan started life out at Deloitte before going on to start his own business. Sufyan then stopped working on his business before 40 in order to found MEND - an organisation aimed at helping Muslims to get into media and politics. A fa…
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E78: how to save for university and avoid student loans
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We're exploring the important topic of student loans. Putting aside their sharia compliance or otherwise for a second, we run through in a really pragmatic way (with the benefit of our hindsight and experience) why avoiding student loans is a good thing full stop - and exactly how you can do it!
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E77: Retiring before 40 - business lessons from Sufyan Ismail [PART 1] [LIVE]
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In this episode which was aired as a YouTube Live, we interview Sufyan Ismail - businessman-turned-philanthropist. Sufyan started life out at Deloitte before going on to start his own business. Sufyan then stopped working on his business before 40 in order to found MEND - an organisation aimed at helping Muslims to get into media and politics. A fa…
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E76: How I got my Islamic Channel on to Amazon
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This episode we chat with Navid Akhter, who successfully got his Islamic channel on to Amazon Prime.
We know lots of you are struggling to save for a deposit so we got together and racked our brains to help give you folks some helpful tips and hacks on how you can speed up the process insha'Allah!
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E74: building companies & selling to major banks - a chat with Usman Khan
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Usman Khan grew up in East London from an ordinary Muslim family. But from those humble beginnings he went on to found 3 different highly successful data companies that raised money from A-list investors and counted most of the mainstream investment banks and fund managers as its clientele. He talks of how he first got into entrepreneurship, how he…
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E73: starting an Islamic mortgage lender in Canada
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In this episode, we chat to Mohamad Sawwaf, the founder of a Canadian startup called Manzil. Manzil are a mortgage lender in Canada and offer mortgages to house buyers, and also have a mortgage fund which people can invest into. We dive deep on the Canadian Islamic scene, starting Manzil, advice for founders and much more!…
Join us as we chat to Dr Wahbi El Bouri - a good friend of ours and now an Oxford professor. He tells us about the fascinating research he's up to, as well as going behind the scenes on the undergraduate Oxford application process.
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E71: planning and pivoting your business around coronavirus
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In this episode, we brainstorm some business planning around coronavirus. In particular, we think about how a regular hajj operator might need to react in the current climate.
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E70: How we choose startups & intro to our first hire!
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Join us for this chat with Ibrahim and our addition to the team, Muhammad. They discuss how we actually go about choosing the startups which we invest in via our syndicate (which is made up of lots of IFG fans!).
There's only one thing to talk about right now - and that's coronavirus. Some key updates from us which are hopefully beneficial. 1. Launch of wills for NHS workers specifically. 2. Update on our coronavirus-specific page for useful info 3. Islamic approach to panic-buying and hoarding. 4. Discussion on whether or not masaajid should be open.…
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E68: Asad Hamir - serial multi £m entrepreneur shares his tips and insights
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Check out our interview with Asad Hamir, a serial entrepreneur with a fascinating background with plenty of great tips for us all.
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E67: Shabir Randeree CBE - interview with a godfather of Islamic Finance
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In this episode we interview entrepreneur and philanthropist, Shabir Randeree CBE. Shabir has had a fascinating career spanning finance, business and philanthropy. He is a trustee of the Prince's Trust and a great example to our community.
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E66: How companies make money in unexpected ways
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Today we're exploring the topic of business models. People are making money in increasingly novel ways. Google is essentially a marketing company (makes money from ads), Dropbox has a freemium model (use it for free to a limit), Amazon is in many ways a data company. How should you be thinking about the companies around you, and about your own busi…
In this episode, Mohsin interviews Ibrahim about his Oxford application and interview. He shares some hacks for other students and reveals how, ironically, he massively flopped his R.E exam.
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E64: an update from us (and an apology for the hiatus!)
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Hey folks, we're just using this episode to update you on our lives! Listen in to hear the latest goings-on at IFG and what has been keeping us busy. **The Millionaire Muslim podcast is supported by Euro Quality Lambs. Top quality lamb meat delivered to your doorstep**
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EP63: How a Muslim Should Approach the Coronavirus [Sermon]
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In this khutbah Ibrahim discusses what a Muslim's approach to the Coronavirus (and other pandemics like it) should be and how a Muslim can make the most out of it for his or her akhirah.
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EP62: What Can We Expect from Islamic Fintechs with Abdul Haseeb Basit
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Islamic fintechs are the next big thing and in this episode we dive behind the hype and take stock of the industry, its challenges, its promise, and where its headed. Abdul Haseeb Basit is the co-founder of Elipses and helped put together the Global Islamic Fintech Survey 2019. You can find out more about Abdul Haseeb here: https://www.linkedin.com…
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E61: My life in Islamic Finance - law firm partner Mohammed Paracha
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Many moons ago, in typical Ibrahim fashion, he randomly reached out to a bunch of top lawyers asking for work experience. Those of you in the industry will know that law firms don't take people like this, they have formal applications. But one man responded and gave Ibrahim his first taste of law - and that man is Mohammed Paracha! Mohammed is a di…
In this episode, we're talking through another business as part of our Business Agony Aunts series. This week, it's latinhoneyshop.com - a great website selling high-quality honey.We analyse and run through some really easy changes that they could implement in order to become more profitable. Ibrahim also amusingly confuses Baber Ahmed for Babar Az…
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E59: Mohsin's Oxford Interview Process & advice to future uni students
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In this episode, Ibrahim interviews Mohsin about his Oxford application and interview (and the infamous Swahili-gate - you'll understand when you hear the story!). We also share some views at the end for future uni applicants to heed!
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E58: Thought Experiment - plonked in London with £5
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This episode felt like a throwback to our uni days! We had the rare pleasure of being in the same room whilst recording a podcast and so we conducted a thought experiment like we used to back in the day. More particularly, a thought experiment on how would we approach being plonked in London with £5 to our name. What would the path to success look …
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E57: Why we think the definition of Islamic Finance needs to change
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Check out this talk by Ibrahim at the Islamic Finance & Ethics Society. He goes into detail about why the old-school Islamic Finance of big-ticket corporate stuff is not what we need to focus on - and why we at IFG are all about Islamic Finance from the grassroots level.**The Millionaire Muslim podcast is supported by Euro Quality Lambs. Top qualit…
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E56: NEW SERIES: BUSINESS AGONY AUNTS - this week we're analysing Halwa shops
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We're launching a new series of podcasts (switching to 2 a week, with the second one being this new series). It's called Business Agony Aunts (the aunts being Ibrahim & Mohsin...). Each week the plan is that we look at a particular business or industry and analyse it - thinking about how it can scale in the modern era. We had fun chatting about hal…
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E55: Ex-Google DeepMind startup founder Omar Latif on his mind-blowing 10 years-in-the-making mental health startup, the ONE quality he looks for in entrepreneurs, what young coders need to do & more
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Mohsin interviewed Omar Latif, the founder of WeAreAssif, a mental health startup which spots micro-changes in you which may be the early signs of mental health deterioration. 10 years of gruelling research and coding have got Omar to this point. Listen to the episode to learn more about Omar, his own mental health challenges which inspired WeAreAs…
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E54: How to plan your career and give meaningful charity - a short talk @ LSE
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Ibrahim gave a short talk at the London School of Economics about charity. He discussed how students need to start thinking about their careers from an impact-to-the-ummah perspective, and what really meaningful charity looks like.**The Millionaire Muslim podcast is supported by Euro Quality Lambs. Top quality lamb meat delivered to your doorstep**…
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E53: Ex-JP Morgan Islamic banker Safdar Alam & the future of Islamic Banking
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We're joined by Safdar Alam in this interview for a fascinating and revealing insight into the rise of Islamic Finance in the UK and globally, what's changed since then, and what Safdar thinks about the way forward. **The Millionaire Muslim podcast is supported by Euro Quality Lambs. Top quality lamb meat delivered to your doorstep**…
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E52: In-depth tour of an abattoir: a groundbreaking perspective
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We are so excited to bring you this episode! It's a genuinely groundbreaking episode where we've been given all access into Europe's largest Muslim-owned lamb abattoir in Europe. This is an interview where you'll literally be taken into the abattoir with Rizvan, our host at the abattoir. We also get a fascinating insight into what it takes to lead …
