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Jan 2024
1h 11m

1 on 1 with Akhi Ayman

Belal Assaad
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This is a story of struggle, hardship, pain, grief, heartbreak, agony and survival, to a guidance from Allah from darkness to light, narrowness to vastness, loneliness to being part of an ummah, and from heartbreaking loss to gain and healing.

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