Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

Aaylaz your girl, Kad, Adar and you're listening to the Digital Suhterhood podcast.

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu.

This is Johara, Johara Lula.

My story was previously featured on Episode 8, weathering the storm.

And now I am back, but not as a guest in this episode.

In this episode, my dear friend Mona asked me to be the narrator.

And so, meet Mona.

People know me as Mona Meals because I am a foodie, I have a food page, I cook, I have

a baking business.

I recently just started it just this April.

And people are like, well, I always think you've been doing this for like the past years.

I don't know.

So, I am from Minneapolis, recording this from Minneapolis right now.

I was born here, raised here, until I moved to Uman.

Saleh ala Uman, when I was about in fifth grade or so.

I moved over, lived there for four issues.

I learned the Quran and my parents wanted us to go there so we can learn Arabic and Hamdulillah

is still going strong.

When I got back, I was in I think fifth grade.

And then my parents took me to an Islamic school here in Minnesota.

I graduated from there.

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