meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Documentary Podcast

Life's big questions

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

What are the big mysteries that people want to understand about life? How to be happy. How to accept old age and death. Wit questions sent in from all over the world, Buddhist nun Sister Dang Nghiem and Sufi Imam Jamal Rahman offer their wise words on some of life’s eternal questions.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

This is the BBC World Service.

0:02.0

I'm Sana Safi and welcome to a special edition of World of Wisdom.

0:08.7

This is the place where we explore some of the moral and spiritual issues that life turns up.

0:14.5

And for this final edition of the series, we have invited two of our advises

0:19.6

for this non-Sister Dagnigium and Sufi Imam Jamal Rahman.

0:23.7

To come on together and offer some wise words and as many of your questions

0:28.5

as we can get through.

0:30.4

Well, they've been coming through to our page on the BBC World of Wisdom website

0:35.6

for a few weeks and this week we posted a simple query on World Service Facebook asking,

0:42.7

what is the one question about life you wish you had the answer to?

0:47.7

And we've had 848 responses on that alone.

0:53.1

We will cover a fraction of them but do have some sympathy for our advises as they

0:58.3

aim to work together to provide something meaningful on as many of the big questions as they can.

1:05.0

Hello Imam Jamal, are you ready for this?

1:07.5

Yes, absolutely, with great joy.

1:09.8

And Sister D, how about you?

1:12.0

I'm here for you.

1:14.0

Great, okay, let's start with some short answers to these questions.

1:19.4

Julian from Australia is asking, how do we begin to love ourselves?

1:24.6

Imam Jamal.

1:25.3

You know, the Quran says that divinity, Allah is outside of you and inside of you.

1:32.2

And the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, he said, Allah is in the innermost chambers of your heart.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.