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I think in some in some aspects of my life, anecdotally as you mentioned

I

I feel like I've come closer to Allah SWT. Yes, he's in control and you know when I feel

That I'm gonna be challenged with earning a living during a COVID

Experience that Allah SWT. I guess somehow you know finds a way to to

Give me a risk about

On the other hand, I've faced some challenges personally in

Maintaining my spirituality like I enjoyed the whole the whole idea of praying

Thought we had a home that was that was quite you know

That was a blessing was spiritual my family was together, but at the same time my religiosity is probably

linked to community service and I wasn't able to go out there on the front lines and help and

Organize and and support as much as I'm used to and I was recently reading an article in

The Atlantic about how COVID has basically demolished

Many friendship circles and for me that's one of them like my friends have become a lot fewer like I've got you know

Deeper connections with fewer people, but that broad spectrum of

Muslims that you see at the mosque or community

Activities has kind of disintegrated and it's affected my spirituality. So do you mind just talking

More to the to the research that you did and is this just

Was a momentary spike in people's spirituality or are they going to be residual effects on on people's faith?

I think that's it's really really important and as most researchers would tell you this is room for more

Research to really figure out, but we did along with along with the clean is really look at

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