The Weight of Watching Eyes

The Digital Sisterhood

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Self-improvement, Education

4.9 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, we sit down with Sayema - a Muslim psychotherapist - for a deeply-personal story about the unseen costs of having our lives be too visible online. What began as a mission to offer healing and service turned into a slow, quiet unraveling under the weight of envy, burnout, and the spiritual harm of evil-eye. Sayema’s story is raw, reflective, and shows her ultimately-redemptive journey of what happens when the healer via psychotherapy becomes the afflicted; and finds the cure not in the algorithm, but in the Quran, and from Al-Shifa, The One Who Heals. - Your Chance to Build a House in Jannah—Right Here in Chicago! Alhamdulillah, after 20 years of service, Barakah Chicago has purchased a historic 20,000 sq ft property in Edgewater—with a beautiful masjid space, classrooms, and a gym. We need your help to raise $900,000 for renovations. Donate today at https://www.barakahchicago.org/center and invest in your akhira. Jazakum Allahu khairan! Host: Cadar Mohamud Guest: Sayema Zulfeqar Season lead Producer: Khweya Bezeid Production Manager: Maaheen Khan-Bashir Episode Producer: Nada Almoussa Writer: Sara Emira & Cadar Mohamud Sound Design: Youssef Douazou & Yahya Arfouai Creative director & Cover Art illustrator: Wasima Farah Ustadh Tim Humble’s Ruqyah Course:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuihjkTS1Xqhv9WB-epHOTXGWm7cCC4rL&si=K0dNkfC61QXKVQ-n https://www.amauacademy.com/programs/how-to-perform-ruqyah-on-yourself-and-your-family 7-Day Self-Ruqyah Detox Plan: https://muhammadtim.com/ruqyah/7-day-detox

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome, besties. Before the episode begins, I have something to share. I know I'm talking to you from a voice memo. Just imagine this as a voice note of a WhatsApp message I just sent you quickly before we get into the real convo. I, a few weeks ago, went to Chicago. I was invited by this incredible group of women who represent this mesdid called mr baraka you guys
0:25.0	when i tell you i was so touched by these sisters um they invited tds uh to gather the sisters
0:31.0	from the city and fundraise for an incredible upcoming project now before i tell you what
0:36.8	that project is okay,
0:38.1	I just want to tell you guys a quick story.
0:40.2	The Rabilad just passed us.
0:42.3	I had, there was a day that I had a full on mental breakdown,
0:46.3	like an actual full on mental breakdown
0:48.5	because one of my teachers,
0:51.3	one of my Seychssevim Mestid,
0:53.0	did a private story for, you know, his close community,
0:58.0	basically offering them the opportunity to donate for the carpets of a Meshid in Toronto.
1:05.8	And he's like, and his whole point, the whole point why he's putting in his private story was like,
1:09.2	he's like, I know this is going to fill up and you want the you know the edged of donating uh for a message
1:15.6	especially the messenger carpas do you can you imagine how many people are going to do sejda in that
1:19.7	masala and how much rewards you're going to get like basically you were hitting the lottery okay
1:24.2	when it comes to sadaha you hit the lottery and here i was being invited to SADCha, you hit the lottery. And here I was being invited
1:28.2	to donate. I remember when I saw that private story, it was around like 10 p.m. So I told myself,
1:34.9	okay, I'm going to donate, inshallah when I wake up the next morning. You guys, do you know what
1:39.0	happened? I woke up the next morning and the fundraising goal was already met.
1:45.3	And he was no longer taking any more sadaka for the masala.
1:48.9	You guys, I boohoo cried.
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