Dalia Mogahed is a renowned leader in the field of American Muslim research, with extensive experience in analyzing global Muslim communities. She co-authored the book "Who Speaks for Islam?" with John L. Esposito and served on President Obama's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Dalia has testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, delivered a notable 2016 TED talk, and is a respected expert commentator in international media and forums. She also heads Mogahed Consulting as CEO.
Moments with The Messenger | Episode 3: The Birth That Changed the World
Before the birth of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, Makkah was a society surrounded by spiritual darkness. Yet Allah was already preparing the way for what was to come.In Episode 3 of *Moments with the Messenger*, we journey through the events leading up to the birth of Rasulullah ﷺ, from the rediscovery of Zamzam and the story of Abdul Muttalib to the Year of the Elephant and Allah’s protection of the Ka’bah.We then turn to the birth of the Prophet ﷺ, his family, his orphanhood, and the circumstances Allah placed around him from the very beginning. A life that would come to bring light, mercy and guidance to the world.This is the story of how Makkah was being prepared for the arrival of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.Moments with the Messenger | Episode 3.
19 Jul 2026
Moments with the Messenger | Episode 2
Episode 2: The Two Gifts: Hajar, Zamzam and the Founding of Mecca
Having told the story of the Hijra by starting in the middle, DaliaMogahed now goes back to the beginning—to the great-grandfather many generations removed of the Prophet ﷺ, Sayyidina Ibrahim (as). Born into an idolatrous society to a father who manufactured idols, Ibrahim's fitra was clear even as a child, and his story becomes the origin that explains how we arrived at the Hijra in the first place.
This episode follows Ibrahim's unshakable conviction through his hardest tests: silencing a tyrant king with a single argument about the sun, being stripped and catapulted into an inferno that Allah commanded to become "cool and peaceful," and the surrender of walking away from his wife and infant son in a barren valley without knowing how Allah's aid would come. Alongside him stands Hajar—the Egyptian servant gifted in a Pharaoh's chamber who became the mother in whose footsteps millions still walk—whose running between Safa and Marwa Dalia unpacks as one of the most profound acts of worship we perform: striving sourced in tawakkul, effort that never causes the outcome but always precedes it.
From the gushing of Zamzam and the arrival of the Jurhum, to the rebuilding of the Kaaba by father and son, to the dua that Muhammad ﷺ would one day answer, the story finally turns dark—how a single dictator, Amr ibn Luhai, brought idolatry and its accompanying corruptions into a peninsula that had been founded on Tawhid, setting the stage for the world into which the Prophet ﷺ would be born.
Along the way: never judge a person by their family, surrender doesn't mean you stop making dua, and the danger of uncritical followership of anyone who isn't a prophet.
19 Jun 2026
Moments with the Messenger | Episode 1
Episode 1: The Hijra: The Moment That Stopped and Started Time
Why do Muslims measure time from the Hijra, not the Prophet's birth, not the first revelation, but the night he left everything familiar to step into the unknown? In this episode, Dalia Mogahed takes an unconventional approach to the Seerah: she begins in the middle, with the migration itself, and the treacherous gathering of Quraysh leaders plotting to end the life of a man known never to lie, steal, or cheat.
What follows is the story of that escape, Ali (r) sleeping in the Prophet's bed beneath the green shawl, the trusts returned to the very men planning the assassination, the stillness in the cave of Thawr, the hundred-camel bounty that drew an entire peninsula, and the encounters along the road: Suraqa and the bangles of Kisra, the milk that flowed from a barren goat, Buraydah's cavalry, and two highway bandits the Prophet ﷺ refused to write off.
Along the way, Dalia draws out the lessons that still speak to us today, that our tormentors are not our teachers, that a true leader is the last to drink, and that no one is ever too far gone to be lifted up.
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