Is God on Your Invite List: How to Make Sense of Our Hardships w/ Halima Jama

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🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Sometimes Allah (swt) wants a certain level of Jannah for someone and when their good deeds alone can't get them there, He gives them hardship.These are such powerful words that I was fortunate enough to come across in a moment of need. In today's episode, I sit down with Halima Jama to discuss how we can better focus our lens on the blessings threaded within our hardships, how we can include Allah in every aspect of our lives and how to trust the next chapter we are embarking on becaus...

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0:00.0	When talking about hardship, how is this happening to me?
0:19.9	Like, what am I doing wrong?
0:21.2	Like, why me?
0:22.1	And then you realize, but wait a minute, don't get ahead of yourself.
0:25.0	Don't forget Allah was aware of everything you were going through.
0:27.6	Allah was aware of what's happening.
0:28.9	And remember what we're going through because Allah is aware of it will only make us better.
0:33.2	So it's always, instead of saying, why me? Be like, of course me, because my rob entrusted me with his hardship.
0:39.1	My rab knew if I go through this, this is the roadmap to get to success to him.
0:43.1	Right?
0:43.3	And ultimate success is knowing him.
0:45.0	Ultimate success is meeting him.
0:46.5	And if what you went through gets you there because it made you the person you need to be to be able to get there.
0:53.2	Why not you?
0:57.6	Because, mashallah, I know if I share this with my sister, my brother,
1:01.9	or whomever I'm speaking to who's wondering why hardships are taking place in their life,
1:04.8	I know this will draw them that much more closer to their rub.
1:07.6	Al-a-Lahmuh, for community and al-h-h-a-for dialogue.
1:09.7	You never know where inspiration comes from.
1:24.8	Sometimes Allah supranua Tha'ala wants a certain level of Jannah for someone, and when their good deeds alone can't get them there, he gives them
1:27.5	hardship. You're listening to Unsween and Unfilter the podcast, episode 14 of season three.
1:33.5	These are such powerful words that I was fortunate enough to come across in a moment of need.
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