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May 21
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The secret to mastering the nafs

Mamoon Yusaf
About this episode

After over 15 years of coaching, I'm going to let you in on a secret. 

There is something that happens in almost every single coaching session, at the moment the client has a breakthrough: 

They drop their nafs. 

For real.

"Insight is when the ego collapses over a particular subject", as mentioned in the book, 'Inside the Soul of Islam'.   

What does that look like in real-life?

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