S3 EP9 | On the edge of the diving board

The Digital Sisterhood

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Self-improvement, Education

4.9 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

For the final episode of Lovetember, we wanted to give all our listeners the perfect fairy tale ending… This story follows Halima, a Mexican Indigenous and American girl just trying to understand the people and world around her. Join us as we follow through the epic love story that is, of finding the most special relationship, on her path to finding Allah. Host: Cadar Mohamud Episode Producer: Khweya Bezeid Lead Producer: Hanna Adan Associate Producer: Kwaku Dapaah-Danquah Editor: Lamisah Chowdhury Writer: Lamisah Chowdhury Graphic Designer: Wasima Farah Project Manager: Maaheen Khan Sound Designer: Youssef Douazo Marketing Extraordinaire: Sawsan Abdillahi

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0:00.0	Asselam alaykum Rahmattahi and Barakato.
0:05.2	It is your lover girl Ather and you're listening to the Digital Sisterhood Podcast.
0:11.9	It's making me a little teary eye to say this, but we've officially reached
0:16.3	the final episode of Love Timber. I know, I know, sorrows, sorrows, sorrows, I know.
0:23.8	It's devastating, I'm devastated too.
0:26.4	But I want to say that today's guest, it's not mine.
0:30.4	Today's story is brought to us when a girl one night made a sincere and heartfelt d'aah
0:36.1	to Allah.
0:37.7	Her d'oeil was to be interviewed by me on this podcast.
0:41.4	And of course, and of course of course guys it came true
0:44.6	So without further ado, I want to introduce you to Halima who is here with me today
0:50.7	But is really a lost guest.
0:54.0	Halim is half Mexican indigenous and half American girl living in the States.
0:59.1	Her story as many of ours begins with a question, a few questions like, who am I? What do I believe in? And why
1:08.7	am I here? My birth name is Isabella. My grandma had gifted me a name that aligned with some other indigenous gods and when I had converted to Islam, I kind of let that go.
1:30.0	It wasn't something that I believed in and I didn't want to go into this, I guess, hypocrisy in a way.
1:39.0	And I think I was just like really trying to find like something that was quote-unquote
1:45.6	right or acceptable and I had landed on the name Halima and I think that was really coming from a place of wanting to not do something
1:56.6	wrong and thinking that if I had an Arab name that meant that I was doing something right. And after like I had
2:07.0	changed it I was like this just like does not feel like me like I feel like I'm
2:12.3	kind of jumping into this,
2:14.4	I guess, culture that's not even supposed to be
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