{"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":"What to Learn","slug":"what-to-learn","published_at":"2022-01-01T10:55:08+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/revert-podcast-4755840/what-to-learn","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/revert-podcast-4755840","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-to-learn--48127822","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/48127822/what_to_learn.mp3","summary":"Upon accepting Islam, many reverts might want to learn more about their faith, but aren’t sure where to start or what to start learning about. They might also be encouraged to learn by other muslims but aren’t shown exactly how to do this. And without proper guidance in this issue, a muslim might go on for years without learning anything or could even go astray. So upon accepting Islam, what should new muslims learn about? Are there some things that you have to or don’t have to know? And do all muslims have to learn? In this episode I speak about what things new muslims should learn about.","meta_description":"Upon accepting Islam, many reverts might want to learn more about their faith, but aren’t sure where to start or what to start learning about. They might…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":430,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/revert-podcast-4755840/episodes/what-to-learn/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/what-to-learn.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}