{"podcast":{"title":"Revert Podcast","slug":"revert-podcast-4755840","podcast_index_feed_id":4755840,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/4998688/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/revert-podcast--4998688","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/85dd1d9ec0cde356f41325458242176c.jpg","author":"Matt Drake","episode_count":25,"summary":"My name’s Matthew Drake. I’m from Wokingham, Berkshire, in England and I embraced Islam in 2005 when I was 19 years old. When I look back to when I first became muslim two decades ago, I realize that I made a lot of mistakes along the way. And more often than not, these incidents were a direct result of a lack of Islamic knowledge or a lack of knowing how to apply Islam correctly in my life, either because of my own ignorance of the religion or because of the bad advice I received from other muslims who, despite the good intentions they may have had, were ill-informed themselves or had a lack of understanding. This, in addition to the excessive zeal I had as a new muslim, as well as immaturity and a lack of life experience, all contributed to me going to extremes in aspects of the religion, obligating or prohibiting things in my life that I didn’t have to, getting into arguments and debates with other people, ruining friendships and upsetting family members. Mistakes were made, damage was caused and people were hurt unnecessarily. But as time went on and the more I learned about Islam and lived my life as a muslim and the general life experience I gained, I began to understand the…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-03T04:18:16.808168+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/revert-podcast-4755840"},"episode":{"title":"Overcoming Bad Habits","slug":"overcoming-bad-habits","published_at":"2022-08-03T09:28:07+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/revert-podcast-4755840/overcoming-bad-habits","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/revert-podcast-4755840","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/overcoming-bad-habits--50797742","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/50797742/overcoming_bad_habits.mp3","summary":"Alcohol and other drug addictions, adultery and premarital relations, watching pornography, theft, violence, bad character traits like lying and backbiting as well as sicknesses of the heart like arrogance and envy can all be common practices for people before Islam and become serious demons to fight against when they become muslim. And many of us may strive to cut these bad habits out of our lives, and are even able to stop doing them for a while, but sooner or later, we end up going back to them. We know what we’re doing is wrong, but just can’t seem to stop doing it. In this episode I speak about some of the ways in which we can overcome the bad habits we have and the sins we commit.","meta_description":"Alcohol and other drug addictions, adultery and premarital relations, watching pornography, theft, violence, bad character traits like lying and backbitin…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":492,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/revert-podcast-4755840/episodes/overcoming-bad-habits/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/revert-podcast-4755840/overcoming-bad-habits.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}