Episodes
Yusuf Kalam is a Fundraising Manager for Muslim Aid and is a brand new father with his daughter being only a month old!  What we covered:  🍼 The taboo of miscarriage and still births 🍼 Tips on supporting your wife through pregnancy 🍼 Unexpected emergency C section 🍼 The special name given to his daughter 🍼 The first month of being a dad  Watch episode on youtube: https://youtu.be/mfCH2EQLMrg Follow me on Instagram for more dad related content  https://www.instagram.com/shoaybmuhammad/
Published 11/01/21
Dr. Salman Butt is the Chief Editor of the website www.Islam21c.com has a PhD in Chemical Biology and is a father to 4 children.  What we covered:  🍼 Children bring their own provision 🍼 New societal norms are harming our children's development 🍼 How Islam can reverse that harm  🍼 Shocking studies on the harms of smartphones 🍼 Why parents should buy the most expensive games Follow me on Instagram for more dad related content  https://www.instagram.com/shoaybmuhammad/
Published 10/25/21
Fayaaz has a 2 year old daughter, lives in Exeter and is a data privacy specialist. What we covered: 🍼 Career change with a Newborn 🍼 Making sacrifices for your children 🍼 High income vs job satisfaction 🍼 Learning about yourself from your children 🍼 Making the most of the early years Stream episodes on Spotify, iTunes and Google https://tinyurl.com/dadhoodpodspotify https://tinyurl.com/dadhoodgoogle https://tinyurl.com/dadhoodapple Follow me on...
Published 10/17/21
In Episode 12 we are joined by Reece Byfield aka Muhammad Ibrahim Al-Shafi'ee who is a Revert to Islam, an Alimiyyah student at As Salaam Institute (ASI), a graduate in Philosophy from KCL and now a Masters student in University of Cambridge. He just became a father 4 months ago and shares his reasons for giving his son a "controversial name", how he plans to nurture a strong Muslim personality in his son and why he has decided to study at University of Cambridge.  To learn more about how...
Published 10/12/21
In this episode I was joined by Zarrar. He is a father to one 3 year old son, he works in a senior position in the sales industry and he is an avid reader. Zarrar broke down the allergies his son has and how he and his wife deal with his nutrition. He also explains what challenges he faced when looking for a Nursery for his son. We then discussed how we want to educate our children at their young age now and moving ahead in the future and why reading is a key part of that. He ends off with...
Published 10/04/21
I was joined by Qari Is’Haaq Jasat who is the founder of the National Huffadh Association UK. He is currently is a part-time Imam at London Islamic Cultural Society in North London and Head of Religious Education at Eden Girls Waltham Forest. He is a father to one daughter. We spoke about some of the challenges he faced being a new father, balancing all of his roles with fatherhood, encouraging his daughter to memorise Qur'an at a very young age, football for toddlers and the rewards systems...
Published 07/07/21
Tanim Zaman, Co-Founder of Golden Touch Academy and father to one boy, joins me on the podcast to share his experiences. We start by delving into how Tanim made time for the birth of his son. We then spoke about why having a your own business has so many advantages for fathers. Tanim shares his advice to young brothers who are thinking about starting a family. He also gives fathers advice on how to teach their children about money. Finally he ends on his vision for a Muslim homeschooling...
Published 07/07/21
Today I was joined by Nur Choudhry the founder of Involved fathers (involvedfathers.com) and chair of charity Human Aid UK. He has 6 children the youngest 4 and the eldest 14. He is a parenting consultant holding a diploma in child psychology and cetificates in counselling and life coaching.  We spoke about the recently released OFSTED report on sexual harassment in schools, how it affects our children and what we can do about it. Towards the end Nur shared some tips on how busy fathers can...
Published 07/07/21
In this episode I sat down with Khidr or Just Another Brother as he is known on Instagram. He's father of 3 at only 25 years old, a student of knowledge and works for the East London Mosque. We spoke about his reaction to having twins, how him and his wife deal with raising 3 children, his favourtie books, why he started his Instagram account and what he looks forward to doing with his children as they grow up. 
Published 07/07/21
This is the second episode of the Dadhood Podcast with my dear friend Hamza where we discuss his journey from being on the roads to taking hundreds of people on Umrah, with an unexpected turn into youth work. We talk about his parenting organisation Bonsai Trust, how he handles his two toddlers, why we always need to be improving ourselves as parents and how anger can destory households  Follow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/shoaybmuhammad/  Follow Bonsai Trust on Facebook:...
Published 06/22/21
This is the third episode of the Dadhood Podcast with my friend for 13+ years, Maruf, who is not yet a father. We discuss going on Umrah together and what we got up to in school. He asks me questions about fatherhood to prepare himself for when that moment comes like when are you ready to have kids, how do you prioritise your time and how to support your wife during pregnancy.  Follow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/shoaybmuhammad
Published 06/22/21
This is the fourth episode of the Dadhood Podcast with Tariq Shaekh who has 3 children and has been working in charity fundraising for over a decade. We speak about how he gave me my first job, key marriage advice, how to set a vision for your children, what are the benefits of home births and why the outdoors are so good for our children.  Follow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/shoaybmuhammad
Published 06/22/21
This is the fifth episode of the Dadhood Podcast with Dr. Yusuf Abdul-Jobbar   who has 6 children with the oldest being 16 and the youngest being 5. He tuned in live from Turkey so we discussed why and how he moved his family out there. We shared his thoughts on balanacing Secular and Islamic education. He is a part time Imam/Da'ee so we spoke about how he balances that responsibility with 6 children. We ended with some funny moments he's has in his journey of Dadhood.  Follow me on...
Published 06/22/21
My good friend Maruf is back again with more questions about becoming a Dad. In this episode we started with a quick fire round to get to know him a bit better. Then i gave him a scenario in which he is a father with two children, we broke down what that vision looks like and how we can work towards that ideal. The key message was that we need to start working on ourselves from now in order to reach that ideal vision in the future.  Follow me on Instagram...
Published 06/22/21
This is the first episode of the Dadhood Podcast with my dear friend Taha we discuss how he feels being a father for the third time, what his experience was with pregnancy throughout the pandemic, how he got into the infamous Eton boarding school and the mindsets hes learnt from that and wants to pass down to his children.  Follow me on Instagram @shoaybmuhammad for more dad related content
Published 06/01/21