I feel like so many years of my life were wasted. Spending time with people I probably should have

let go a long time ago. That's how I kind of lived my 20s. I could be honest. It was just feeling bad

that I would hurt other people's feelings and not really taking what I wanted seriously.

When I needed to do for the sake of my own self and growth, insanity, and just being the best

Muslim I could be and all those things, I just really kind of put everybody before me and

because of that I suffered a lot.

Does that sound familiar to you?

And I feel like one of the best things I ever did was learn how to put other people in my life so that I could live in a way

that was more aligned with where I wanted to be. And that is actually the reason I feel as good

as I do in my life right now because I made those moves.

So today in the podcast, we're going to talk about exactly how you could do that and kind of what

that looks like when you get the result you want.

Yeah. Hello, Samaaaaaqa. Welcome back to the mindful Muslim speaks podcast.

I'm your host, mindful Muslim.

I come to you twice a week, Mondays and Fridays with topics that you love and request.

As a matter of fact,

this series was a series requested by many women. And while some people might say,

hey, you know, it's my jam or not my jam, what I want to say is the affect people have around us, whether their friends or family are incredible. And that's why the Prophet Beesbun,

and we all know that famous, you know, Hadith Rahim, he says that, like, you are on the dean of your friends.

It is so true. It is so true. But we're going to go even deeper than that today. I'm going to say

that some of our best versions of ourselves are tucked away, hidden, locked up, not able to reach their full potential

because of the company that we're keeping. And one of the things that was the best thing I could

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