Asaam, alikum, this is Abdrahman Murphy, and you're listening to the newest

Heartworks series Finding Meaning and Trial. In this series we'll be exploring an upcoming

publication that I'm working on, translating and commenting on the beautiful short text of

al-Ihiz bin Abd this salam called the benefits of trials. In this series we'll be

exploring some of the meanings and some of the benefits of trials in our lives as given to us by

Lisbon Abd al-Abdis-Sallem he gives us some of the good things that we seek in life

that can only come from the bad moments that we experience in life.

I look forward to joining you on this series in Shala on having you with us and as always if you

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Sala maima bism Allah al-Alham al-Dilah al-Lah al-Lham al-Dilah al-Lah al-Ihahahah al-I Wahahabhi, I'm Ain.

Sala welcome everybody.

Welcome home.

It's good to see you, Hamdurilah.

I admittedly I'm wearing a wolf robe and it's not cold yet.

It'll be cold tomorrow, insha Allah.

I'm anticipating the cold.

I hope everyone's doing well in sha

Allah and I hope you know as well as you can obviously given everything that we're seeing

day in and day out. I wanted to share something. I was reading last night and listening to some stuff just kind of unwinding as I was cleaning up the house a little bit and I heard a narration that I think it helped me and it's a narration that I think to some degree

You know if you've been Muslim for a while you may have heard it mentioned in like a hotba or in a halaqha or a d'ar somewhere.

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