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Your Lived Experience and Your Relationship with Allah Are interlinked.

Your lived experience and how you understand your lived experience shape your relationship with Allah. And how you see and understand Allah shapes how you see and understand your lived experience.

They are interlinked.

**Here are four areas to dive deep in to understand how they are interlinked**

and what that means for us in our every day lives:

Know Yourself to Know Allah

To truly know Allah and to know how you see, understand and relate to Allah, you must know yourself intimately. They are connected. The more awareness you have about your nafs and your inner world, the more you will see how your nafs shapes your understanding of Allah.

And that is why our righteous predecessors told us: The key to knowing Allah is to know oneself.

The focus here is on understanding what it means to know yourself, how to build that self-awareness, what it means to know Allah and how to use your self-knowledge to better understand how you know Allah.

Understand How Your Lived Experience Impacts Your Relationship with Allah

Your relationship with Allah doesn't happen in a vacuum.

Your lived experience, your day to day struggles and moments of joy, your history of pain, your moments of celebration, your ups and downs, your unknown and known trauma, your childhood and even romantic relationships, and more, all influence your relationship with Allah.

The focus here is on understanding your lived experience, your relationship pattern, how you relate to Allah SWT, and how to shift your relationship pattern with Allah.

Build a Life of Wellness- with Allah

Wellness is living your optimal life- not just your physical wellness, but in other realms too. And unlike the western secular approach where your spiritual wellness is just one more type of wellness to consider, the focus here is building a life of wellness where Allah is included through out our efforts.

Building a life of wellness includes addressing our struggles in our lives-not with the self-centered goal of YOLO or "living my best life for me," but rather because building a life of wellness strengthens our relationship with Allah. And becoming a strong believer (not just in faith but in other areas of our lives), was encouraged by the Rasul saw.

The focus here is on understanding what wellness is overall, what each type of wellness entails, what it means to put Allah in the center as we build our life, how building a life of wellness brings us closer to Allah, and how we can achieve that.

Embrace Self-Growth as Allah's Khalifah and to Become an Asset to the Ummah

Self-growth (both internal and external) is crucial for Muslims and is an act of worship that we MUST engage in. As Allah's khalifahs on earth, we cannot stay stagnant and accept mediocrity as part of our life. Our job is to work on whatever keeps us blocked and stuck and to grow- not just spiritually but in all aspects of our life.

Embracing self-growth, which should include tazkiyah (process of purification), ultimately brings us closer to Allah SWT. Staying stuck, on the other hand can, for many Muslims become a barrier in their relationship with Allah SWT.

Our self-growth is also tied to building up our communities- starting with ourselves, our families and then branching out.

The focus here is on understanding what it means to engage in self-growth, what stops us from growing, what it means to live life as Allah's khalifah and how to become a contributing member of the Ummah on any scale, in any way.

I'm Amna Khan

I'm a Muslim American therapist, a life coach for Muslims, and educator- all by training.

I focus on helping my fellow Muslims understand their relationship with Allah, how to deepen it and heal it, so that your relationship with Allah is

your source of safety and strength- not a source uncertainty and pain.

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