Loss and Grief: What Death Teaches Us About Life w/ Chaplain Sondos Kholaki

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🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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We say that if we knew our expiration dates, we would live life differently. Yet, it's written that tomorrow is not guaranteed and we still go on living our lives no differently.In today's episode, I sit down with Sondos Kholaki, who is a Muslim Chaplain and author, to discuss a topic most of us intentionally avoid and that is Death. But, what if we chose to view death as a gift? What if we realized that there is so much more to learn from loss and grief?In this discussion we come face to fac...

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0:00.0	Death is a gift. I think that is a perspective that we as Muslims should really become comfortable with
0:23.5	and adopt. And the way I read into that too is that this dunya is taught to us or told to us to be
0:29.7	one of hardship. It is the bode of trial and tribulation. Death, inshallah, will be our rest. That will be
0:36.2	our transition and our return to our beloved,
0:39.0	compassionate Lord, where our souls, from the moment they exist in this world until the moment we
0:46.2	die, we are looking to reconnect to Allah because in our pre-embodied, you know, existence,
0:52.4	our soul was with Allah, and we just want to return back to that.
0:55.5	And so every longing that we feel in life, I feel like on a deeper level, on a deeper spiritual
1:00.7	level, that's our soul crying out to be connected to the one who created the creation.
1:05.8	So our grief in a way is also a grief for or a longing for Allah to be connected back to him. And death is a
1:13.2	gift and that it connects us back to him.
1:25.9	We say that if we knew our expiration dates, we would live life differently.
1:30.5	Yet it's written that tomorrow is not guaranteed, and we still go on living our lives no differently.
1:35.8	You're listening to Unsween and Unfiltered the podcast, episode 13 of season three.
1:40.9	In today's episode, I sit down with Sundas Khulaki, who is a Muslim chaplain to discuss
1:45.1	a topic most of us intentionally avoid, and that is the topic of death. But what if we chose
1:50.1	to view death as a gift? What if we realize that there is so much more to learn from loss and grief?
1:55.6	In this discussion, we come face to face with our own mortality and the art of grieving.
2:13.5	I will keep this short and sweet, the same way that this donia is, but it's also due to the fact that I'm losing my voice, which is every podcaster's worst nightmare. But on a serious
2:18.9	note, death, loss, and grief are some of the things we struggle with navigating. It can be a
2:23.8	journey filled with a roller coaster of emotions and one that we may never know how to proceed
2:27.9	without a generous amount of caution. As most of you may know, I had lost both of my grandmother's
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