Sakina Binterik offers advice to brothers who offer Islamic classes in order to catfish or manipulate unsuspecting Muslim women, and brings some guidelines for prevention of this predatory behavior, to keep everyone safe.

Sakina Binterik goes through the 5 ways that Islam came to save humanity. Will people follow the guidance and save themselves, from themselves? You decide!

Muslims online have forgotten the angels are not only writing what they say, but what they comment. Sakina Binterik advises what to do when you as a Muslim feel a compelling urge to comment in a rude way or interrupt the flow of Islamic knowledge online.

Did your Quran teacher beat you? Probably. Or you were at least really bored learning about Quran or Islam as a child. Our next generation of students must have better, kinder Islamic education. Sakina Binterik discusses what can happen when it's the opposite.

(Emotional) Sakina Binterik asks why she is approached often by brothers who need help being married to a convert to Islam. Her main advice: follow the Sunnah. Her other advice ranges from giving good dawah to her parents and realizing that you are not Islam.

When Muslims comment questions off topic, in a rude way, or to obviously challenge the knowledge base of a creator online, it shows they don't really want to learn. Sakina Binterik rants about how if you don't trust the teacher, don't learn from them. If you're on social media, that means scrrrroolllllll…

After a few conversations with young sisters who are being strung along on very long, private conversations and being heartbroken, I decided to speak on the dangers of this very popular activity. Yes, I'm going full-on aunty about it but I am also offering several reasons, and alternatives to breaking hearts in private.…

Does it make any sense to call a Muslim out on their behavior online? Sakina Binterik examines the aftermath of call-out videos and suggests following the Sunnah instead: call out behavior instead of people.

So you're getting married...again. Sakina Binterik shares from personal experience what happens to the marriage with your current wife. And you might not like it.

Sakina Binterik has had enough of people asking her for marriage, asking her to find her a spouse and asking her to connect people looking for marriage! In this podcast she details why it's important Muslims make their own connections, for the sake of Allah and their future successful marriage.

This special edition of the podcast is a reflection on myself, lessons learned from a recent gardening experience. What began as a simple gardening task became nearly a whole day of work, involving help, and letting things go.

All kinds of things can happen in the DMs, and you don't want your efforts to go to waste, or be public knowledge! So, have someone read and guide you through it with you as you search for a spouse. We already know what happens when we don't!

Do you want to be the reason someone hurts when they hear the Quran? In this podcast Sakina Binterik discusses the harms of abusing people by using the Quran, hadith and words of the scholars as weapons to only win arguments. This is a very dangerous thing: do we honestly believe that the Quran will testify for us when we have used its beautiful ay…

Keeping Muslim women out of your eyesight gets a lot easier when you lower your gaze. This narrative about protecting Muslim women is really about control. We would not know a great amount of the Islamic information we have today if it wasn't for the scholarship and teaching of Muslim women, through the ages. Colonial times changed that, but let's …

Does talking about mistakes Muslims make equal bad dawah? Why can't we put the blame on those who are publicly making mistakes, and misrepresenting Islam? Sakina Binterik talks about how accusations of bad dawah flip back on those who act badly in sight of non-Muslims and Muslims alike. And it's not wielding Quran and hadith like weapons, either: w…

Do you suspect converts? Do you assume we all had wild lifestyles and got into all kinds of corruption before Islam? You will be surprised, and you should be ashamed: converts are Muslims. As as such, they have the same rights as all Muslims: they should be safe from your assumptions.

Is it the evil woman that breaks a marriage? Or has she gone through so much that she decides the marriage must end before she herself breaks? Sakina Binterik discusses the ugly stigmas of divorce, divorcees and famous examples of excellent Muslims divorcing.

Muslim men have girlfriends. Let's get that out of the way. They could either be single or married, but they have something in common: thinking they can make rules for their girlfriends to follow, as if they are 1. Muslim women and 2. actually married. You're having cake, brothers, but you're not going to get to eat it, too. Sakina Binterik discuss…

How do you 'make' your daughter wear hijab? Some Muslims say that hijab is mandatory at the age of sixteen, and they practice this by dressing the girls in all kinds of immodest clothes, then at the age of 16 exactly, boom, down comes the hijab. Illogical and antithetical to tarbiyah, it often does more harm than good.…

How did we get to a place and time that Muslim men have fallen back onto their couches and refuse to provide? Sakina Binterik discusses the strange and unIslamic phenomenon of Muslim men not providing for their wives, with the result of them having to beg from social services. Why is this a thing?By Sakina Binterik

What kind of Muslim are you? If you've ever been asked that, or been judged by a fellow Muslim, listen to Sakina Binterik refute the use of the statement "We judge by what's apparent". Very, few of us are called upon to make a ruling about another Muslim. If we aren't then we leave alone judging others, offering unrequested advice, shaming and humi…

Us hijabis are all just wearing one, big hijab together. If you're out, and your hijab slips off, your sisters are the first to help you put it back on. So how come we aren't doing that with digital images? Sakina Binterik discusses that if we would pull our sister's hijab back on if we saw it slipped off, why we don't respect our sisters' hijab on…

Fallen in love? With a non-mahram, you've fallen into destruction. While it might taste sweet and bitter, and deliciously heartbreaking, you're attaching someone to your soul. And it will hurt so much when they are ripped away. Sakina Binterik discusses the harms and the solutions to get out and get away from the vices that drag the Muslim into des…

Here's something you're not ready to hear: people-pleasing is hidden shirk. That's why it makes your life miserable, prevents you from success and beneficial relationships, and is at odds with your worship of Allah. Sakina Binterik discusses this trick from Shaytan and how to tell if you are really doing things for the sake of Allah, and how to swi…

Has anyone told you that you're being rewarded for staying to be harmed over and over? If that's happening, it should be prevented, either by helping the oppressed or stopping the oppressor. Sakina Binterik debunks the idea that we are rewarded for allowing ourselves to be abused by other Muslims.By Sakina Binterik

Are you one of the Muslims who are confused when they love Islam, but don’t like Muslims? Does something feel off when you’re reminded ‘for the sake of Allah’, and not motivated in the least? Join Sakina Binterik as she draws on her decades of experience in dawah, discussing mistakes made in dawah each week, and their remedies. You will see and hea…

Sakina Binterik examines the abuse of hadith in telling those in abusive situations 'It could always be worse'. She examines that result, and what the cycle of abuse continues to tell Muslims: you're a bad Muslim if you don't grin and bear it. After all, it could always be better, too.By Sakina Binterik