Waystations is a series for those looking to understand what it means to be human in the modern age.
We talk about: art, culture, education, history and religion. In each episode, hosts Walead Mosaad and Rehan Khan explore the ideas and themes that are shaping human thought and practice in these areas.
Waystations celebrates the pursuit of living life as a journey, treading softly upon the earth and offering other wayfarers a place of respite from the rigours of the road.
In today’s show we are joined by Dr. Abdallah Rothman to discuss Wayfaring. In the podcast we examine the spiritual traditions that have informed Dr Abdullah throughout his life. We look at his attempt to bridge fields of knowledge, and the necessity of a master-apprentice relationship in the path of spiritual ascension.
Dr. Abdallah Rothman is the founder of Dar al-Shifaa , co-founder and President of the International Association of Islamic Psychology (IAIP), and Head of Islamic Psychology at Cambridge Muslim College (CMC).
He is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), a Board Certified Registered Art Therapist (ATR-BC), and holds an M.A. and PhD in Psychology. He is a student of the late Professor Malik Badri in Islamic psychology and his clinical practice as well as his academic research focus is on approaching counseling from within an Islamic paradigm and establishing an indigenous theoretical orientation to human psychology that is grounded in the knowledge of the soul from the Islamic tradition.
Book recommendations:
Alghunya (Sufficient Provision for Seekers of the Path of Truth) by Abdul Qader Jillani
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
About the hosts:
Walead Mosaad is an internationally recognized scholar in Islamic studies and human development. His academic and traditional training has accorded him the opportunity to work with communities worldwide as a teacher and project driver. He has completed degrees from Rutgers University and Fath Islamic Seminary in Damascus. He received his PhD from the University of Exeter in Arab and Islamic Studies, and was also classically trained at the Al-Azhar University.
He is currently the Chair and Scholar-in-Residence of Sabeel Community. He has traveled extensively throughout the Muslim world, as well as Europe and the Far East, delivering lectures on various topics, including spirituality, ethics and intercultural peace building.
https://www.sabeelcommunity.org/walead-mohammed-mosaad
Rehan Khan is a thought-leader, professor, and novelist. He is an advocate for virtue-based storytelling as well as leading with a moral lens. Over 30 years Rehan has advised several global and regional brands. As an adjunct professor he teaches post-graduate courses in AI and the Future of Work, as well as Leadership: A Moral Perspective, and Personal Influence at one of the world’s leading international business schools.
He is a keen observer of history and techno-science. Rehan is the author of a Tomb of Empires (2024) a historical fiction set in 90BC in the Middle East, the Carnegie nominated A Tudor Turk trilogy (2019-2022) set in the Ottoman Empire and Tudor England, and the fantasy sci-fi series, Tales of Khayaal (2025) set on the Earth like planet of Ikleel. These gripping stories also ask readers to consider the role of virtue within the human story.
www.rehankhan.com and www.khayaal.com
If you would like to suggest a topic that you want us to explore, please send us an email on waystationsrkwm@gmail.com
1 Oct 2026
The Reign of Quantity
The topic today touches the absolute core of our modern crisis: "The Reign of Quantity." Taking our title and inspiration from the seminal work (The Reign of Quantity – 1945) by the philosopher René Guénon, we are exploring how the contemporary world has become entirely obsessed with measurement, metrics, and raw numbers at the direct expense of quality, meaning, and inner depth.
We live in an era where we are more concerned with recording a moment than actually living it, counting our steps rather than feeling our presence, and evaluating life by what can be quantified rather than what can be sanctified.
Book recommendations:
The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
The Reign of Quantity by René Guénon
About the hosts:
Walead Mosaad is an internationally recognized scholar in Islamic studies and human development. His academic and traditional training has accorded him the opportunity to work with communities worldwide as a teacher and project driver. He has completed degrees from Rutgers University and Fath Islamic Seminary in Damascus. He received his PhD from the University of Exeter in Arab and Islamic Studies, and was also classically trained at the Al-Azhar University.
He is currently the Chair and Scholar-in-Residence of Sabeel Community. He has traveled extensively throughout the Muslim world, as well as Europe and the Far East, delivering lectures on various topics, including spirituality, ethics and intercultural peace building.
https://www.sabeelcommunity.org/walead-mohammed-mosaad
Rehan Khan is a professor of leadership and novelist. He is an advocate for virtue-based storytelling as well as leading with a moral lens. Over 30 years Rehan has advised several global and regional brands. As an adjunct professor he teaches post-graduate courses in AI and the Future of Work, as well as Leadership: A Moral Perspective, and Personal Influence at one of the world’s leading international business schools.
He is a keen observer of history and techno-science. Rehan is the author of a Tomb of Empires (2024) a historical fiction set in 90BC in the Middle East, the Carnegie nominated A Tudor Turk trilogy (2019-2022) set in the Ottoman Empire and Tudor England, and the fantasy sci-fi series, Tales of Khayaal (2025) set on the Earth like planet of Ikleel. These gripping stories also ask readers to consider the role of virtue within the human story.
www.rehankhan.com and www.talesofkhayaal.com
If you would like to suggest a topic that you want us to explore, please send us an email on waystationsrkwm@gmail.com
15 Sept 2026
29200 Days
When you break it down, a person who lives to be 80 years old is given roughly 29,200 days on this earth. Every sunrise is not just a new beginning; it is a ticking clock with a countdown timer. Yet, we live in a modern culture that is simultaneously obsessed with frantic busyness, yet wildly careless with the actual value of a single day. We rush through life, filling our calendars, while letting the precious, finite currency of our time slip right through our fingers. In this episode we discuss our relationship with time, in contrast to how traditional societies viewed time. We explore time from the perspective of literature as well as in the world-of-work.
Book recommendations:
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzō
About the hosts:
Walead Mosaad is an internationally recognized scholar in Islamic studies and human development. His academic and traditional training has accorded him the opportunity to work with communities worldwide as a teacher and project driver. He has completed degrees from Rutgers University and Fath Islamic Seminary in Damascus. He received his PhD from the University of Exeter in Arab and Islamic Studies, and was also classically trained at the Al-Azhar University.
He is currently the Chair and Scholar-in-Residence of Sabeel Community. He has traveled extensively throughout the Muslim world, as well as Europe and the Far East, delivering lectures on various topics, including spirituality, ethics and intercultural peace building.
https://www.sabeelcommunity.org/walead-mohammed-mosaad
Rehan Khan is a professor of leadership and novelist. He is an advocate for virtue-based storytelling as well as leading with a moral lens. Over 30 years Rehan has advised several global and regional brands. As an adjunct professor he teaches post-graduate courses in AI and the Future of Work, as well as Leadership: A Moral Perspective, and Personal Influence at one of the world’s leading international business schools.
He is a keen observer of history and techno-science. Rehan is the author of a Tomb of Empires (2024) a historical fiction set in 90BC in the Middle East, the Carnegie nominated A Tudor Turk trilogy (2019-2022) set in the Ottoman Empire and Tudor England, and the fantasy sci-fi series, Tales of Khayaal (2025) set on the Earth like planet of Ikleel. These gripping stories also ask readers to consider the role of virtue within the human story.
www.rehankhan.com and www.khayaal.com
If you would like to suggest a topic that you want us to explore, please send us an email on waystationsrkwm@gmail.com
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