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About Islam Academy: Free Islamic Courses

Free Islamic courses as an audiobook podcast: the Qur’an and its tafsir, the life of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), his Companions, faith, fiqh, marriage and more. Each episode is one full lesson from Islam Academy, where every course is free to read, listen to and track at islam.academy.

Publisher

Islam Academy

Category

education · religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Oct 2026

Latest episode

19 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

7 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   19 Oct 2026

   Signs of the Last Day | Foundations of Islam, Part 7

   Why the Qurʾān uses history without being a history book, and what the hour means against the other Arabic words for time. The prophets as a challenge to the mega machine, the signs already fulfilled and those still intensifying, the meanings of Dajjāl drawn from the classical dictionaries, and the choice to remain people of hope. 📖 Read this lesson in full and take the course free: https://islam.academy/learn/foundations-part-7-signs-of-the-last-day/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=foundations-of-islam (https://islam.academy/learn/foundations-part-7-signs-of-the-last-day/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=foundations-of-islam) Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 0:17 The Qurʾān Is Not a History Book 2:15 The Hour, and the Words for Time 4:16 Shutting Down the Mega Machine 6:02 Only Twelve People in China 8:03 The First Sign of the End 11:14 The Slave Girl Will Give Birth to Her Mistress 12:44 Paradise at the Feet of the Mothers 14:27 The Rebellion That Was Not There 16:16 The Reign of Quantity 17:54 Three Kinds of Sign 19:02 The Signs That Keep Intensifying 20:43 Where the Signs Are Found 21:35 The Meaning of Dajjāl 22:54 The Imposter Christ 26:33 The All-Seeing Eye 28:55 The Second Coming 30:08 Barefooted Herdsmen Building Towers 32:24 Each Generation a Watered-Down Version 36:00 Reading the Sun for the Prayer Times 37:04 Words With Stereotypes Attached 39:26 Opportunity and Crisis 41:22 Go Back Where You Came From 43:43 Majesty and Beauty All courses: islam.academy/courses (https://islam.academy/courses/?utm_source=podcast) · YouTube: @IslamdotAcademy

2. 

   16 Oct 2026

   The Concept of Iḥsān | Foundations of Islam, Part 6

   Islam, īmān and iḥsān as three dimensions of one hadith, with time as the fourth. Why the post-colonial Muslim world fixed on the outward dimension alone, from Napoleon in Egypt to the Marxists of the 1970s who became the Islamists of the 1980s. Then iḥsān itself: worship as if one sees God, shame before God rather than before society, the human drive to make beautiful, and the traditional West African text on repentance, guarding the limbs, the diseases of the heart and their fountainhead, and the stations that end in love. 📖 Read this lesson in full and take the course free: https://islam.academy/learn/foundations-part-6-the-concept-of-ihsan/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=foundations-of-islam (https://islam.academy/learn/foundations-part-6-the-concept-of-ihsan/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=foundations-of-islam) Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 0:17 Four Dimensions in One Hadith 3:20 Napoleon Reaches Egypt 6:53 The Reformers 10:44 The Failure of Political Islam 13:34 When Socialism Fails 16:06 The Great Danger of Religion Is Religiosity 19:46 To Wear Wool 21:58 Shame Cultures and Guilt Cultures 24:05 To Make Beautiful 27:11 Allah Loves the Beauty Makers 31:11 The Coke Can in the Creek 33:05 Repentance 36:42 The Heart Is Like a City 40:17 You Are What You Eat 43:52 Showing Off and Envy 47:13 Vanity and the Worship of Youth 49:10 Diseases the Heart Does Not Feel 50:53 Love of Leadership and Procrastination 53:39 Love of This World 55:35 A Mentor Who Knows the Path 57:55 The Stations of Certainty 1:00:35 Freedom From and Freedom To All courses: islam.academy/courses (https://islam.academy/courses/?utm_source=podcast) · YouTube: @IslamdotAcademy

3. 

   13 Oct 2026

   The Articles of Faith, Part 2 | Foundations of Islam, Part 5

   Why qadr is the most misunderstood concept in the tradition, and why khayr and sharr are abundance and want before they are good and evil. Then a long digression into the Sharīʿah — the five things it preserves, what a fatwā actually is, lineage, honour and inheritance — and the stages of the afterlife, from the grave to the scales and the bridge. 📖 Read this lesson in full and take the course free: https://islam.academy/learn/foundations-part-5-articles-of-faith-part-2/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=foundations-of-islam (https://islam.academy/learn/foundations-part-5-articles-of-faith-part-2/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=foundations-of-islam) Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 0:17 What an Intention Is 1:02 Abundance and Want 3:49 One Person's Evil Is Another Person's Good 6:32 A Fatwā Is a Legal Opinion 11:07 Four Witnesses 12:16 The Five Things the Sharīʿah Preserves 14:53 No Adoption, and the Name 16:11 The Woman Who Asked to Be Purified 18:23 Not Being Alone, and the Preservation of Honour 20:55 Inheritance Is Fixed 23:58 A Good Action Is a Harmonic Action 25:32 The Scorpion and the Frog 27:05 Boundaries and the One Who Splits Them 28:19 Impulse and Transgression 31:30 No One Gets There Without Their Actions 32:35 The Day the Debts Fall Due 34:40 The Lowest Level 36:03 The Need for More Stimulation 39:05 The Seven Stages of a Life 41:39 What Happens at Death 43:59 Returned to the Earth 46:43 The Grave and the Questioning 47:34 The Two Blowings 48:53 When the Excuses Are Lame 50:52 The Scales and the Bridge 52:51 The Carrot and the Cat 55:34 Silence as Contentment 56:43 Doing It Over and Over 58:30 Who Forgives 59:52 Slandering a Prophet 1:02:25 Muslims and Islam Are Not the Same Thing All courses: islam.academy/courses (https://islam.academy/courses/?utm_source=podcast) · YouTube: @IslamdotAcademy

4. 

   10 Oct 2026

   The Articles of Faith, Part 1 | Foundations of Islam, Part 4

   The hadith of Jibrīl gives four dimensions within Islam, and īmān is the vertical one: the word itself means to make oneself safe and secure. What lā ilāha illallāh negates before it affirms; the books as reminders and the messengers as wakeful beings; kufr as truth-concealing; mercy and wrath as God's immanence and transcendence; and the three selves, the angels, and qadar as a measuring out. 📖 Read this lesson in full and take the course free: https://islam.academy/learn/foundations-part-4-articles-of-faith-part-1/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=foundations-of-islam (https://islam.academy/learn/foundations-part-4-articles-of-faith-part-1/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=foundations-of-islam) Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 0:17 Four Dimensions Within Islam 3:26 The Vertical Dimension 7:03 To Make Oneself Safe and Secure 10:21 Each Breath Is an Exposure to Death 12:03 There Is No God but God 14:58 Negation Precedes Affirmation 18:32 What Do You Mean by God? 21:25 The Books Are Reminders 24:23 Four Books 26:44 Truth Concealing 29:08 The Light Is Better Over Here 31:12 A Forty-Sixth Part of Prophecy 33:52 The Messengers Are Wakeful Beings 36:07 Transcendence and Immanence 39:10 The Womb, Nearness and Distance 42:36 Until You Are Like This 44:50 The Semantic Field of the Nafs 47:18 The Three Selves 51:42 The Fire Is Surrounded by Desirable Things 55:42 Angels of Pure Light 57:59 Prophets and Messengers 1:00:18 Qadar, a Measuring Out All courses: islam.academy/courses (https://islam.academy/courses/?utm_source=podcast) · YouTube: @IslamdotAcademy

5. 

   9 Oct 2026

   The Pillars of Practice, Part 2 | Foundations of Islam, Part 3

   The prayer as an act of the body, and the creatures that know their own praise; the ablution, the rights of women in Muslim law, and the cosmology of right and left. Then zakāt as the purification of wealth and the right of the poor, with its eight recipients; the fast of Ramadan and who is excused from it; and the Hajj, where humanity strips itself of every distinction and stands equal before God. 📖 Read this lesson in full and take the course free: https://islam.academy/learn/foundations-part-3-pillars-of-practice-part-2/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=foundations-of-islam (https://islam.academy/learn/foundations-part-3-pillars-of-practice-part-2/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=foundations-of-islam) Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 0:17 Every Creature Knows Its Prayer 2:19 The Body in Worship 3:49 Measuring the Sun With the Body 5:28 Even the Thief Had Honour 7:24 Women and the Mosque 9:47 What a Woman Is Owed in Muslim Law 13:11 Purification With Water and Earth 15:17 The Time of Personal Purification 17:10 Right and Left 19:04 South Over North 20:43 Why Am I a Muslim? 22:52 What We Know Why and What We Do Not 26:25 The Purification of Wealth 29:15 Planetary Boat People 30:53 Those Closest to You Are Most Worthy 33:34 Standing Wealth, Not Income 36:33 Grain, Livestock and Meat 39:01 Buried Wealth 41:42 The Eight Recipients 44:41 Taxes and the Laws of the Land 46:57 Going Out Against the Ruler 48:43 Sugar and Water Cost More Than Oil 51:36 The Month of Ramadan 53:23 Who Is Excused From Fasting 57:30 The Month in Which the Qurʾān Was Sent Down 1:01:38 For Whoever Is Able to Make the Journey 1:05:46 Stripped of Social Status 1:08:46 The Plain of ʿArafāt 1:13:24 Shayṭān and the Manipulators 1:16:50 Beware of Extremes All courses: islam.academy/courses (https://islam.academy/courses/?utm_source=podcast) · YouTube: @IslamdotAcademy

6. 

   9 Oct 2026

   The Pillars of Practice, Part 1 | Foundations of Islam, Part 2

   Why a tradition should be allowed to speak for itself before its practitioners are judged, and what the Qurʾān means by Islam: all creation in submission, the religion of Abraham and Isaac, the religion perfected in the Prophet Muhammad, and the surrender that is death. The hadith of Gabriel and the five pillars; the shahādah as witnessing; prayer as burning, connection and submission; and the five daily prayers read from sunset, dawn, and the shadow of a stick at the meridian. 📖 Read this lesson in full and take the course free: https://islam.academy/learn/foundations-part-2-pillars-of-practice-part-1/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=foundations-of-islam (https://islam.academy/learn/foundations-part-2-pillars-of-practice-part-1/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=foundations-of-islam) Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 0:17 Letting the Tradition Speak for Itself 3:28 The Debt of Submission 5:49 All of Creation Is in Submission 8:04 The Religion of Isaac and Abraham 12:47 He Gave Up the Ghost 15:17 An Unbroken Chain 18:52 Tell Me About Islam 22:39 What Prayer Means 26:28 The Muslim in the Normative Sense 29:14 Human Beings Are Asleep 33:13 Five Prayers in a Day 35:58 The Night and the Dawn 38:54 Watching the Gods Play Chess 41:31 The Stick and the Shadow 43:28 How Your Lord Moves the Shadow 46:51 The Seasons of a Life All courses: islam.academy/courses (https://islam.academy/courses/?utm_source=podcast) · YouTube: @IslamdotAcademy

7. 

   9 Oct 2026

   How the Qur'an Was Revealed and Compiled | Foundations of Islam, Part 1

   Why the Qurʾān is a recital before it is a book, and why that matters for a people who had no book at all. The cave on the mountain of light and the first word, iqraʾ; the themes of the Meccan years; memorisation as the primary means of preservation; and the collection under Abū Bakr and the standardisation under ʿUthmān. 📖 Read this lesson in full and take the course free: https://islam.academy/learn/foundations-part-1-how-the-quran-was-revealed-and-compiled/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=foundations-of-islam (https://islam.academy/learn/foundations-part-1-how-the-quran-was-revealed-and-compiled/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=foundations-of-islam) Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 0:17 In the Name of Allah 2:59 A People With No Book 5:36 A Boy Born in Mecca 7:15 The Cave on the Mountain of Light 10:41 Read in the Name of Your Lord 12:12 Khadījah and Waraqah 14:35 The First to Believe 15:37 He Makes Us Look Stupid 17:08 Thrownness 19:49 The First Thirteen Years 21:39 If God Is Unknowable, How Is God Known? 23:24 The World That Comes After 25:26 Surrendering the Desire for Linearity 27:42 The Last Moment 29:26 A People Who Memorised 31:35 The One Who Preserves It 33:21 The Flight to Medina 36:14 The Battle of Yamāmah and the First Collection 37:56 Two Witnesses for Every Piece 39:42 The Standardisation Under ʿUthmān 41:54 Protected by Recitation, Not by the Page 44:05 What Exists Today 45:47 The Plural of the One Who Exalts Himself 47:33 The Leaves That Went Missing 48:14 Whether the Descriptions of Paradise Are Literal 49:49 The Deliberate Mistake 51:31 How Many Know the Entire Qurʾān 53:55 The Seven Variants All courses: islam.academy/courses (https://islam.academy/courses/?utm_source=podcast) · YouTube: @IslamdotAcademy

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