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Blood Brothers Podcast is the official podcast of 5Pillars News hosted by journalist Dilly Hussain. The show discusses a plethora of political, religious and socioeconomic issues affecting Muslim communities in the West and the Muslim-majority world with experts, influencers and professionals.
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Sunday Sep 07, 2025
Sunday Sep 07, 2025
In this episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain spoke with the editor-in-chief of Islam21c, Dr. Salman Butt.
Topics of discussion include:
- The Global Muslim Content Creators summit in KL, Malaysia.
- The Prophetic Summit in Putrajaya, Malaysia.
- Social media growth, virality, and fighting the algorithm.
- Muslim unity and leadership in the age of social media and AI.
- Leaving a legacy beyond viral content.
Sunday Aug 31, 2025
Sunday Aug 31, 2025
In this episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain, spoke with the world-renowned Malaysian Chinese Islamic scholar and preacher, Shaykh Hussein Yee.
Topics of discussion include:
- Shaykh Hussein Yee's journey from Buddhism to Christianity to Islam.
- Shaykh Yee's memories and relationship with Shaykh Al-Albani.
- Following Quran and Sunnah, and harshness in dawah to Muslims.
- Importance of being a good representative of Islam.
- Advice to parents with young children in 2025.
Saturday Aug 23, 2025
Saturday Aug 23, 2025
In this episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain spoke with the prominent Muslim YouTuber, da'ee and influencer, Ali Dawah.
Topics of discussion include:
- Ali's reflections on the 'Bitter Truth' show and free-mixing.
- Culture wars, traditional gender roles, and Muslim marriages.
- The rise of the far-right and the myth of "Muslim grooming gangs".
- Dawah, content creation, ego, and fame.
- An eye disease will make Ali blind by the age of 40.
Sunday Aug 17, 2025
Sunday Aug 17, 2025
In this episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain speaks with the world-renowned author, book coach and motivational speaker, Naima B. Robert.
Topics of discussion include:
- Thoughts on the Global Muslim Content Creators' summit organised by One Path Network in Kuala Lumpur in July.
- Self-accountability and spiritual recalibration in the age of social media fame and virility.
- Importance of writing books and leaving a legacy.
- Secret marriages, desi culture and polygyny.
- Rise of the far-right and future of Muslims in the West.
Saturday Aug 09, 2025
Saturday Aug 09, 2025
In this episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain spoke with the prominent South African imam, Bilal Ismail, from Durban.
Topics of discussion include:
- Ustad Bilal Ismail’s background and the Muslim community of Durban.
- What is the ‘Imam Development Programme’?
- The socioeconomic reality of imams in Africa.
- Amazing stories of the ‘super imams’ the IDP supports.
- Muslim communities' treatment of their local imams.
Thursday Aug 07, 2025
Thursday Aug 07, 2025
In this episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain, spoke with the prominent Syrian-American humanitarian aid worker, activist and legal advocate, Hassan Shibly.
Topics of discussion include:
- Dilly and Hassan's differences and disagreements over Andrew Tate.
- Syria, Bashar al-Assad, Palestine and the Axis of Resistance.
- Islamic duty to fight injustice and sacrifice for Allah.
- Donald Trump, America First and Muslims living in the West.
- Weaponisation of children during divorce and separation.
Friday Aug 01, 2025
Friday Aug 01, 2025
In this episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain speaks with the prominent American imam from New Jersey and research director at Yaqeen Institute, Tom Facchine.
Topics of discussion include:
- "Islam isn't just the past, it's the future." Dilly questions Imam Tom about his opening remark at The Prophetic Strategy Summit in Malaysia.
- Romanticising Islamic history and civilisation.
- Dismantlement of oppressive colonial structures.
- What type of decolonisation could be unIslamic?
- Muslim unity: Centralised vs. De-centralised
- New York mayoral race: Zahran Mamdani and American Zionists.
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Sunday Jul 27, 2025
Sunday Jul 27, 2025
In this episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain speaks with the prominent Muslim influencer, content creator and youth advocate, Shoaib Hussain aka 'The Sunnah Guy'.
Topics of discussion include:
- Shoaib's background, upbringing, and relationship with his father.
- Shoaib's journey to practicing Islam and engaging local youth.
- Content creation, COVID-19 lockdown, and going viral.
- Fame, critics, and self-accountability.
- Men, masculinity, loneliness, and free time.
- Brotherhood, belonging, purpose and reformation.
Tuesday Jul 22, 2025
Tuesday Jul 22, 2025
In this episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain, speaks with the world-renowned Islamic scholar, thinker and writer, Dr. Tareq al-Suwaidan.
Topics of discussion include:
- Misconceptions about the geopolitical importance of pre-Islamic Arabia and the status of the Arabs.
- Was the establishment of a state a means or the end objective for the Prophet Muhammad (saw)?
- At what point in the Seerah did the mission to establish a state go from “strategic thinking” to “strategic planning”?
- Can there be a civilisation without a state or a polity?
- What makes a state “Islamic” - is its constitution, its laws and courts, the societal culture and values?
- Dr. al-Suwaidan’s thoughts on Wael Hallaq’s argument that it’s impossible for the modern nation state to be Islamic?
- What is the caliphate, and can such a polity exist in the modern day?
Saturday Jun 28, 2025
Saturday Jun 28, 2025
In this episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain speaks with the erudite British Christian philosopher, ethicist and medical doctor, Dr. Calum Miller.
Topics of discussion include:
- Recent amendment of the Abortion Bill which decriminalises abortion up to the day of birth.
- Recent Assisted Dying Bill which passed through parliament with a majority.
- Who, or what, is spearheading the normalisation of these laws?
- Individualism, low fertility, suicide, mental health and the breakdown of the traditional family in Britain and the West.
- Ethics behind religious slaughter: halal, kosher and the Christian position.
- Tolerating religious pluralism as a practicing evangelical Christian.
- Reform, Europe's shift to the right, and the rise of 'cultural Christianity'.