DebtFreeMuslims Podcast

Debt Free Muslim Podcast Episode 7

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Shaykh DeLorenzo is a member of the Sharia board for the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI). He is considered a leading authority on Islamic finance in the United States. He has translated over twenty books from Arabic, Persian, and Urdu for publication, including a three-volume Compendium of Legal Rulings on the Operations of Islamic Banks. Shaykh DeLorenzo has also been a pioneer in internet education with a course entitled "Principles of Islamic Investing." He is a member of Shari’ah boards of several Islamic financial institutions in the United States and abroad, including Dow Jones Islamic Markets and Guidance Financial Group. Shaykh DeLorenzo has served as secretary of the Fiqh Council of North America and was also an advisor on Islamic education to the government of Pakistan. Following a university education in the United States, Shaykh DeLorenzo studied the classical Shari’ah Sciences with scholars in Pakistan.

In this podcast we discuss:

• How Shaykh Yusuf got involved in the Islamic finance field.
• Challenges faced in providing shari'ah compliant home financing
• What's the next step for Islamic home financing in the US, and the need for more competition.
• Benefits of Islamic home financing over conventional financing (Islamic institutions don't go after your assets in cases of deficiency)
• Islamic finance companies will be transparent when the people begin to demand it
• Shaykh Yusuf's thoughts on student loans.
• What's needed for us to have a viable student loans solution.
• The importance of home ownership in the US
• The importance of setting financial goals for yourself.

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Shaykh Nomaan Baig

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Ayesha Ahmad is currently a student at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA and will be graduating this Summer. She is also the founder of Simply Scrumptious by Ayesha.

In this episode we discuss:

• How she graduated Debt-Free and her main motivation for doing so
• What challenges she faced
• Advice for high school students now on how to graduate without taking any student loans
• Whether working throughout college enhanced her resume or not
• How to take advantage of scholarships and AP courses

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DebtFreeMuslims.com Podcast Episode 5

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Our guest for this episode is Zuhair Shaath, Youth Director at the Clear Lake Islamic Center.

In this episode we cover:

• His path to becoming a youth director
• Why do high school grads choose their major?
• How to explore scholarships while in college
• Having a work ethic - especially from a young age
• Parental/community reactions towards making Islamic work a full-time job
• Advice to those who are working 9-5 jobs and the importance of doing that work

References from Podcast

• http://www.themasjid.org/clic-leadership/
• Hartford Seminary

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In this episode, brother Saeed Sheikh shares his debt free story with us. We talk about the following:

• How common is it for college students to get into credit card debt without realizing it
• The ways we rationalize purchases
• Behavioral and spiritual changes during his debt free journey

Saeed's article on his debt free journey can be found here: http://debtfreemuslims.com/reflections-my-journey-to-debt-freedom/

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