Alone in a strange land: So who can be The Disposer of my affairs?

Welcome to Jarajaywrites's Spill The Beans episode 4. MashaAllah, ep 4 already, one month into its weekly production. Alhamdulillah, I am just grateful for this opportunity to share my reflections with you on living as a Muslim in the West. Questions about renegotiating our identities, such as whether we can live in non-Muslim countries and still flourish as the best servants of Allah, keep poking inside our worried chests. How do we incorporate the teachings of the Quran and Sunnah into our daily lives here, and while we are doing so, some are asking us to reconsider our own cultural fallacies? Families from back home are also worried about our safety, both physically and spiritually, to which we always reassure them that everything is okay mom, dad, alhamdulillah. But they can hear our worrying voices, for deep inside us, living alone with no sharia law safeguarding and protecting our welfare, we too doubted our answers. Is it really safe here to live as a minority? Who can we trust? But who else do we turn to for protection when we are uprooted alone in a strange land, as our father Ibrahim a.s. did when he traveled alone to the unknown land, other than Al-Hakam, Al Wakeel Al Muhaymin Al Wali? In this episode I would like to share my story that comforts my worried soul and perhaps could do the same to my listeners out there; that indeed Allah is our only Protector wherever we are—either in the east or the west—and perhaps also could calm my parents' hearts fully knowing Allah is there guarding their precious daughter here. She is not alone—"mom, dad," Allah is with her. I wrote this reflection in a letter to Al Hakam. So go grab yourself a cup of coffee, tea, or anything that works for your comfort and let's get down to this week's reflection, titled "Alone in a Strange Land: So who can help dispose of my affairs?" in Spill The Beans with Jarajaywrites. To continue listening to the rest of the story, please head over to Jarajaywrites' Spotify or YouTube channel.