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, Malekm, everybody.

O'Hla, thank you.

Welcome, welcome, how are you?

Hamdala, very good. Hamdala, so tonight, inshala, I wanted to,

we reached out to Sami a few weeks ago to invite him.

For those of you who don't know him,

he, shawlawlaw, is someone who for the past few months now

has been really front and center

and a lot of the rhetoric and conversation and

dialogue about the geopolitics regarding of course the Muslim world and you know at

the nucleus of that of course what's happening in

...