About this episode

The episode discusses spiritual tests and how to meet them through surrender, humility, gratitude, and patience.

Send us Fan Mail A single poem can snap us out of the small story we live in. We start with Hafez, then move straight into a hard, honest theme: spiritual tests. The Quran promises we’ll be tried through fear, hunger, and loss, but the question that matters is how we meet the moment. We talk about surrender to Allah as a lived practice, not an abstract idea, and how humility, gratitude, and patience repair a heart that feels disconnected. From there, we widen the frame to the modern world. T...

Topics covered

• spiritual tests
• surrender to Allah
• humility
• gratitude
• patience

Keywords

• Hafez
• Quran
• fear
• hunger
• loss

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Quran

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