Intro to Islam (feat. Dr. Hussein Rashid)

I am proud that majority of the comments are civilized and intellectual responses

The comments on this video are so civil, and I think I know why: because the people likely to leave terrible comments dont watch unbiased educational videos on Islam lol

This is a summary of about 80% -85% of my uni's Religious Studies course on Islam, I'm very impressed. I think you gave a good summary of the variety of Islam and still gave some ways to understand it as a coherent structure. I'll be sure to send this to my prof :)

9:30 just one thing missing, the Pilgrimage is stated "those who CAN do Pilgrimage are required to do it only ONCE and it's okay to do it more than once" Those who can't do Pilgrimage, are not required. In the Quran there's the most important verse: "God does not burden any soul (person) beyond its (their) scope (capacity)"

Thank you for posting! This is the clearest and most illuminating introduction to Islam I've ever seen or read. Most appreciated is the focus on the internal diversity which is so often ignored in discussion of Islam.

I grew up in Utah in the Mormin religion, and now as an adult i love learning about other religions and cultures around the world and how deeply and vastly steeped in history so many of them are. Fascinating. Thank you for taking the time to explain things to us in a way we can understand!

If there is anything I believe in, it's education. This was way educational. Keep it up :) I like your open minded, scholarly approach to these subjects. I'm sure my old professors would have recommended your videos if they existed 20 yrs ago. Any chance you will be doing some vids on new religious movements in the foreseeable future?

My family homeschools, and I’m the older sister to two younger brothers who are still being homeschooled. I do lessons with them about things that I think are important that they don’t learn anywhere else, and I include your videos in a lot of our lessons. We were raised evangelical so I think it’s important for them to get a broader view of other religions. Thank you for making these videos and sharing knowledge ❤️

This is a great intro. I am a Christian and have explored a lot of religious paths before I became Christian. I did not know much about Islam, so this was very helpful. Thank you

I learned more in this video than my 21 years living as a Muslim in a Muslim-majority country.

to me as an Muslim Myself, what i learn from my Religion is you must keep and Always Improving yourself to be Better and More then before. From are Iman, Salah, and are Good Deeds plus How you Life you must keep Learning,Evolve, and Changing to go Beyond yourself

Thank you for being open minded, educating and not spreading hate... THAT is godly.

Waiting for the next part with excitement. I've receantly moved to Morocco and I'm attempting my first ramadan as a personal experience and as a way to better understand the community I'm now part of. Thank you for this video.

Thank you for this video. As someone who has taken courses on Islamic studies out of curiosity, especially with all of the attention it has been getting, it makes me so happy to hear you clear up so much of the stuff which people just don't understand or take for granted. This is especially in regards to the discussion on Shariah. I can't even count how many times I've tried to explain that it isn't just a solid, unchanging code of things you have to do. I wish more people would take an interest in finding the truth rather than taking rumour at face value.

I can’t get enough of this stuff. Love this channel.

This is fascinating. I never knew how interesting religion could be looking into it from the perspective of just wanting to learn.

Excellent - looking forward to the next part.

Wow I learnt so much from this video. Plus, the formality in the presentation is marvelous. Keep it up. 👏🏻

This is a very well done and informative video. Really love your work as a communicator and as a researcher.

Hope to see a video on various schools of theology in Islam. You could talk about Asharis, Maturidis, Atharis and Mutazilites among Sunni theological schools for starters. You could also elaborate on the 4 law schools and talk about the highly important concept of Ijma (consensus).