Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Personal responsibility is tough. It's much easier to place blame on our community and our environment than it is to take accountability ourselves. But when it comes to responsibility before God, how can we hide behind these things? 

This excerpt is from our new series, Rough Draft, in which Cherif Abou El Fadl and Shayan Parsai sit down for a conversation on recent khutbahs, issues facing the Ummah, and Star Wars. The first two episodes are available now on The Usuli Institute YouTube channel.