Heart-Set Mind-Set Part I

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Welcome to Episode Three of the Middle Ground Podcast. For this episode I’m joined again by brother Dawud Aleman. This will be the start of a multi-part series discussing the mind and mindset (or as we prefer, heart-set) and the need to cultivate virtues as believing men and women. As usual, we discuss all topics in light of the Qur’ān and statements from the Prophet, ‎ﷺ.

Āyāt, aḥādīth, and other references in this episode:

• Du’ā’ after prayer, collected in Riyāḍ al-Ṣālḥīn;

• Sūrah al-Kahf, v. 63: “None made me forget it save for Satan”;

• Sūrah al-Baqarah, v. 286: “O’ our Lord, do not punish us if we forget or make a mistake!”;

• The reference to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was from The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman;

• Andrew Huberman on sunlight (YouTube);