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 mala.

Islam, Islam, Islam, Islam, Islam, Islam, Islam, Allahi al-Lah, al-A-Lah, al-A-Sahabhi,ah, Orai Irain, welcome home everybody.

It's good to see, Alhamdulah.

Welcome back to our reading of the benefits of trial and the virtues of trial and tribulation by

Eulbun Abdis Sala.

We've been reading Ahmedala now for a few weeks and I'm hoping that everybody

Is as you know excited as I am as I am as I read this text, I am always looking forward to seeing what new layers of perspective I can be given by the author on how to respond. Because that's really the goal of this text.

This book is to provide everybody with options and choices.

Now here's the thing and I'll warn everybody of something that when you read books like this sometimes

that develop a person's spirituality there can be the challenge of what feels like a lofty expectation that's almost

impossible. So you read about for example in this book there's going to be examples of this,

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