{"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":"When You Don't Know","slug":"when-you-don-t-know","published_at":"2021-11-11T20:07:21+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/revert-podcast-4755840/when-you-don-t-know","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/revert-podcast-4755840","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/when-you-don-t-know--47430995","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/47430995/when_you_don_t_know.mp3","summary":"When some people accept Islam, they might be quick to get involved in ‘dawah’ - ‘propagation’ and inviting others to Islam and encouraging people to follow them in their new way of life. They also might start having religious discussions and debates with their friends, family, colleagues and other people they meet. This can sometimes result in the new muslim being bombarded with questions they can’t answer or even escalate to arguments and confrontations. And because the revert strongly believes that Islam is the truth and they want to defend it and not be ‘defeated’ in argument or remain silent when asked questions, they might be tempted to say things about Islam, without actually knowing whether it’s true or not or to say things they aren’t sure about. In this episode I speak about what a muslim should do when they're asked questions they don't know the answer to.","meta_description":"When some people accept Islam, they might be quick to get involved in ‘dawah’ - ‘propagation’ and inviting others to Islam and encouraging people to follo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":365,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/revert-podcast-4755840/episodes/when-you-don-t-know/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/when-you-don-t-know.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}