Episode 270: Ben Iqra
Freshly Grounded
Faisal & Sam
4.9 • 945 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2022
⏱️ 127 minutes
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Summary
Ben Iqra, pro live streamer, is today's guest joined by Faisal to discuss his life from childhood, starting off in the punk community as an atheist, till where he is now as a muslim of ten years. They chat about his ADHD diagnosis and how he uses it to his advantage, his experience with poultry farming, and an in-depth time timeline of his relationship with Islam.
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| 0:00.0 | Ramadan is right around the corner and you know what that means? Dates. We open our |
| 0:10.1 | fast with them, we close our fast with them we close our fast with them we tell terrible jokes about |
| 0:15.9 | them but now it's time to get serious about them this year I'm going to be getting my dates from Holy Land dates. |
| 0:25.0 | Holy Land dates are grown, harvested and packaged in Palestine. |
| 0:31.0 | Why is that important? I'll tell you why. |
| 0:35.0 | Holy Land Dates supports Palestine through trade as well as aid. |
| 0:40.0 | By having as much of its work done in Palestine, it enables them to support Palestinian workers and businesses to keep the economy running. |
| 0:48.0 | An example of this is the soap factory in Nablus, where the Holy Land Day soap is made. This soap factory is won by Palestinian |
| 0:56.2 | Widows and giving business to them means that they can continue to run their business |
| 1:01.3 | and continue to earn. Back to dates. Whether you're buying them for |
| 1:07.3 | yourself in your house for Anglarn or you're buying them as a gift. |
| 1:12.5 | Head over to Freshly Groundy.com |
| 1:15.0 | forward slash dates to grab yours now. |
| 1:19.0 | Oh, and they taste great. |
| 1:21.0 | At the time of this recording, we are less than two weeks away |
| 1:26.1 | from our flagship finale in London |
| 1:29.4 | for the Freshly Grounded Live Tour, 2022. |
| 1:32.3 | This show has been in the making for over two years. It was meant to happen in 2020 and because of COVID and everything in between is now happening now in March |
| 1:45.2 | 22 and we have been able to refine our live events to the point |
| 1:49.6 | where we feel like we have the most special event that you guys are going to love. It's in the iconic |
| 1:55.5 | London Aldrich Theatre in the West End. It's a phenomenal venue. We've done that |
| 1:59.4 | venue once before and it's now the home of Freshly Garnett in London. |
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