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As-salamu alaykum & welcome to The Niyyah Journey! This episode introduces who we are, why we started this podcast, and what “living with niyyah” means to us. We’re just two Muslim girls figuring things out and taking small, intentional steps toward becoming better - starting with ourselves.
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Assalamualaikum everyone and welcome to the Niyyah Journey. This is the podcast for the girlies who want to feel confident, intentional and inspired. Making small steps every day toward growth, well-being and starting with ourselves. Disclaimer, disclaimer, we are not scholars and we're just making the intentions of becoming better, being more aware and improving our deen for the sake of allah and we want to share that journey with y'all and if anyone want to come along so may allah make our intentions pure and bless everyone so
what's up assalamu alaikum everyone my name is Mellina and i'm from Niger and mariam said it all i think this is a podcast to just be ourselves and help other girlies and also help ourselves in growing being intentional and i don't know just being better persons inshallah so she already said it we're not claiming to be scholars or anything we're both learning and we hope you guys you girls can
also learn from that inshallah so um this is mariam and i'm from mali um which is a country near Mellina's yeah So as she said, too, this journey is really important to me because I feel like I, we thought about it because at first I wanted to like do something that was different, but at the same time, something that was going to help us become better Muslims and better girlies. So again, we're not scholars. We want to really scratch that one a lot. So just happy to be here. By the way, we are students that... go to university in the U.S. And so that is very important. And that's going to come up in later episodes. And we're going to be talking about the struggles of being a woman, Black, Muslim, African. And by the way, we are studying in a very deep red state, Republican state. So it's not very easy to... to keep being yourself when you're surrounded by people who don't really know a lot about other cultures and stuff like that and just are close to it yeah so yeah um what are we today
this is also a chance for us like just get out of our comfort zone and just be
maybe gain more confidence because it's actually really stressful to do this episode yeah i'm not gonna lie maybe we we had a lot of struggles but i hope y'all are gonna like it and yeah um... are gonna have a lot of small um things you're gonna be learning from this journey so as we already mentioned our podcast name is the Niyyah journey and I'm going to give you a definition of what Niyyah is from Google. Niyyah is the intention behind an action, a fundamental principle in Islam where the motive is considered as important as the act itself. And now we're going to talk about what does that word mean to us and why did we choose it as the name of our podcast. Mellina is going to explain first and I'm going to go ahead.
Yeah, I just feel like intention is basically behind everything we do in life and especially in islam it's really important every action every good deeds that we do it basically goes by the intention yeah because i mean everything we do is behind the intention that we meant by that action and nobody can know better our intention other than allah subhanahu wa ta'ala someone can go to a masjid and you're gonna think like yeah he's basically doing a good deed but you don't know what's his intention behind that so we're just so quick to judge in islam and i actually hate judging yeah i hate judgment so intention is really important for me because that's basically the center of everything we do in life and that's why we
chose the Niyyah journey to me personally i chose the i and that the Niyyah word really was calling to me by the way in my native language uh Niyyah means if you want to say intention is Na Niyyah like my Niyyah and it's the same word so i thought that was a pretty cool one just it is amazing and then um for me Niyyah was really important to me because growing up um when they taught me in my family when i was taught The very first thing that I remember my grandma told me how to pray But the very first thing she said was you have to have the intention and the right intentions Even before taking wudu and then from that you have to also have the intention Yeah, she
I still remember it was the Maghrib time and she
She alhamdulillah may allah bless her. I mean, I still remember that to this day She was like intention is the most important thing and I grew up honestly my parents were like that too intentions behind everything um is very important so whether it's about the dean what it's even about school about people with your relationships with people how you talk to people the intentions of every day making something like just waking up and doing something that you wouldn't do another day to become another person the intentions of going to the gym yeah something like that just taking care of your body those are all important things that that everything comes down to the intention because everything you do whether it is good or bad it comes down to your intentions to your willingness to do it so yeah that's why that was why when i saw i was like okay this is a call like this this word really goes well with also a journey a journey of becoming better because um
yeah you have to have the intentions first to become better wanting to become exactly before anything else so yes so now we're going to talk about subjects our future episodes are going to be on inshallah we're going to be talking about our own journey finding islam because i feel like no matter where you come from or even if you were born in a muslim household you still have to find Islam by yourself. because even if your family were like really really religious you still have to you're kind of being forced to do the act of obligation but then when you find islam yourself and the intention just fall in place and you're praying because you want to pray pray because you like being a muslim not because your mom or your dad tell you hey you have to pray or you're gonna go to to jahanam if done yeah we were all told that yes and not only that but um
Just, you know, sometimes even if you grew up kind of liking it, you still find joy into learning more about it every day. And that also comes down to the intentions of always trying to become a better Muslim, a better human, because Islam does guide you in the way of living. And I feel like if anyone who uses Islam and it's like every day and practices and acts the way Islam tells us to act, then you definitely are a better person. Yeah. Another subject that we're going to talk about is finding love as a young Muslim girlie.
Okay, okay.
I did not put that one.
That one. I'm not gonna lie. I am. I love love. You are too. Yeah, don't even lie. And finding love as a young Muslim girl is it's hard.
Yeah, because I feel like as a girl,
it's just hard to find the right person.
And also not only that it's not easy to find someone but also if in any case you find anybody it's very hard also to do it the right way because there are so many temptations and also our own nafs and just navigating also even finding somebody who wants to do it the right way.
And also ignorant how to do it the right way.
Right.
Which way is the right way.
Nowadays sometimes when you tell some people you want to do it the right way they get shocked. and like it's very hard maybe they think you're too much oh yeah or sometimes your expectations can also be lower than someone else like someone else can be like oh you don't do it this way and then you're like oh maybe we want to do it that way or with normal to do this this way yeah so those are all um subjects we're gonna have inshallah in the podcast and another subject we're gonna have when I live
yeah we're also gonna be talking about African societies and yeah just how different it is than Western Western societies and how much pressure African societies put on girl and even boys and just people in general yeah like the African society of usually obviously we know how
different it is than the western one but um it's still somehow very a cultural shock to be here sometimes and just witnessing some things like there's so much fitna and uh subhanallah the fitna is so huge as i said and also in the podcast we're gonna have guests guest speakers those are gonna be our yeah this is gonna be fun that's gonna be fun again this is just for us to have fun, just let ourselves. breathe and give ourselves some grace because um with everything we handle here it's like a lot so sometimes just having a sit down and we just notice that we will do that all the time so we always yap about interesting stuff so we might as well share it with you exactly and yeah
so yeah so uh-huh we want to talk about also we're going to be talking about the society pressuring us uh of living by their own standards instead of ours. I mean you have to get married you have to be a good mother you have to have children yeah this one is really a hard one for me because how did we normalize like someone minding your own marriage asking you yeah you still don't have kids that's that's actually crazy and mean African culture code yeah so so
not only that but also in the west too like there's also pressure from them somebody who But who wants to get married, the wife is going to tell you, why do you want to get married? Why do you want to do that? Or why don't you want to work? Or why don't you want to stay at home? It's just so much pressure from everyone. Just social norms. You know, it's the social norm, but it's very hard to not get into feeling yourself down or stuff like that about these social norms.
so that's something we're definitely gonna talk about inshallah and also we're gonna talk about the fitna of being a gen z in the west um yeah that one i mean we don't do we have to explain too much about that one because i think this is basically why a lot of people feel like they want to remove their hijabs because they just want to look like everyone uh just you know being
really sometimes it passed that phase where it's not only appealing it becomes an action yeah that's true subhanallah Allah forgive us for our shortcomings but yes there is definitely a huge fitna and also just like being it like back home we used to have people being more modest and stuff like that and here like everyone is wearing shorts and what they will call modesty yeah not modest to you and also just also modesty i believe personally that modesty is a concept that's beyond like yeah appearance yeah and then also again and it's defined to everybody and also the hijab again is comes back as she said um it's in your character and that's something that like i feel like is a struggle to yeah it is um using some language that languages that when not necessarily. later on gonna be proud of or yeah so another subject that we will inshallah be talking about is gonna be the self-pressure of having to succeed because of your family's sacrifice and that's just huge because as two african um first daughter of african household um i feel like i when i met her and then we started talking i was like go You're living my life, you understand me. It is a struggle. Yeah, it is. Not even because your family puts pressure on you. Yeah, nobody puts pressure on you. Alhamdulillah, our families don't do that. They don't put pressure on us. But it's still...
Just the pressure that we put ourselves.
Seeing them making so many sacrifices and just giving you so many opportunities, alhamdulillah.
Yeah.
and you just feel like you can't waste it yeah you don't have exactly you don't have the right to waste it and even though it sometimes even though it can go against yourself um
like what you want to do but again that comes down to also the society's pressure that we previously mentioned yeah so that's definitely something we will touch on in this podcast inshallah and we can also say that we're gonna talking about we're gonna be talking about the high expectations of being the first daughter in an African household yeah this one hmm I think every subject, every topic that we're gonna be talking about is just something that is hard and something that, inshallah, maybe in a couple of years we're gonna break even, I don't think so, but just things that we want to change in the society and...
Yeah, and also it's very hard to find girls that look just like us, like we are a pretty small minority, like being in that small percentage of... women who are black, Muslim, African, hijabi, living in the West specifically, redneck, in a redneck state, is not for the weak.
That's true.
May Allah give us more strength to deal with it. But also, we just want to share our journey, basically. So this is for Paul. We are, again, we're not scholars.
We're all learning.
So now, since this is... all about our intentional journey um and the podcast is almost going to an end for this episode for today yes we made it first first episode hope y'all liked it but um now we're gonna each talk about what specific intentional uh act we're gonna do like we want to have a goal and put the intention into it that we're gonna execute it so what's yours mellina
I think I'm just going to say like keep up with my Quran reading because I feel like ever since I came here I was just been really lacking with my Quran reading because when you stop that's the thing that messes up you don't have to read like 12 pages a day or 20 pages a day but you have to keep going and I just want to keep going yeah consistency no matter how small it is yeah consistency that's why I'm gonna be working here thank you
what's yours in my case um i want to be more conscious with my character because um i feel like that's something i've been overthinking about um as and i'm not an extrovert person but okay no no i'm not i'm not you know i'm not an extrovert but it's just like sometimes i mean when i feel comfortable around people my friends especially I've been having some type of behavior that's not the best sometimes and I've and I want to be always remind myself that hijab is not only about the appearance appearance it's also about the behavior and the character so I want to work especially on my speech what I say and um how I say to people things I say and be more conscious about that inshallah inshallah May Allah make it easy for you. Thank you. Ameen. Allahumma Ameen. Okay, so since now it's almost the end of this episode, y'all please go follow us on Instagram and TikTok. Our name is The Niyyah Journey. It's going to be there, over there. So hopefully y'all can find it easily. It was very nice to have this episode. And for us, actually. For like side note, we started this like, since first of all, we used to have a yapping session all the time. And then we saw that, oh, it's almost black. Friday and microphones are on sale so you guys are lucky y'all are lucky so I hope you enjoyed it and inshallah see you next time or and don't forget to take it one sincere Niyyah at a time take care of yourself and may Allah bless you all
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As-salamu alaykum & welcome to The Niyyah Journey! This episode introduces who we are, why we started this podcast, and what “living with niyyah” means to us. We’re just two Muslim girls figuring things out and taking small, intentional steps toward becoming better - starting with ourselves.
Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
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Assalamualaikum everyone and welcome to the Niyyah Journey. This is the podcast for the girlies who want to feel confident, intentional and inspired. Making small steps every day toward growth, well-being and starting with ourselves. Disclaimer, disclaimer, we are not scholars and we're just making the intentions of becoming better, being more aware and improving our deen for the sake of allah and we want to share that journey with y'all and if anyone want to come along so may allah make our intentions pure and bless everyone so
what's up assalamu alaikum everyone my name is Mellina and i'm from Niger and mariam said it all i think this is a podcast to just be ourselves and help other girlies and also help ourselves in growing being intentional and i don't know just being better persons inshallah so she already said it we're not claiming to be scholars or anything we're both learning and we hope you guys you girls can
also learn from that inshallah so um this is mariam and i'm from mali um which is a country near Mellina's yeah So as she said, too, this journey is really important to me because I feel like I, we thought about it because at first I wanted to like do something that was different, but at the same time, something that was going to help us become better Muslims and better girlies. So again, we're not scholars. We want to really scratch that one a lot. So just happy to be here. By the way, we are students that... go to university in the U.S. And so that is very important. And that's going to come up in later episodes. And we're going to be talking about the struggles of being a woman, Black, Muslim, African. And by the way, we are studying in a very deep red state, Republican state. So it's not very easy to... to keep being yourself when you're surrounded by people who don't really know a lot about other cultures and stuff like that and just are close to it yeah so yeah um what are we today
this is also a chance for us like just get out of our comfort zone and just be
maybe gain more confidence because it's actually really stressful to do this episode yeah i'm not gonna lie maybe we we had a lot of struggles but i hope y'all are gonna like it and yeah um... are gonna have a lot of small um things you're gonna be learning from this journey so as we already mentioned our podcast name is the Niyyah journey and I'm going to give you a definition of what Niyyah is from Google. Niyyah is the intention behind an action, a fundamental principle in Islam where the motive is considered as important as the act itself. And now we're going to talk about what does that word mean to us and why did we choose it as the name of our podcast. Mellina is going to explain first and I'm going to go ahead.
Yeah, I just feel like intention is basically behind everything we do in life and especially in islam it's really important every action every good deeds that we do it basically goes by the intention yeah because i mean everything we do is behind the intention that we meant by that action and nobody can know better our intention other than allah subhanahu wa ta'ala someone can go to a masjid and you're gonna think like yeah he's basically doing a good deed but you don't know what's his intention behind that so we're just so quick to judge in islam and i actually hate judging yeah i hate judgment so intention is really important for me because that's basically the center of everything we do in life and that's why we
chose the Niyyah journey to me personally i chose the i and that the Niyyah word really was calling to me by the way in my native language uh Niyyah means if you want to say intention is Na Niyyah like my Niyyah and it's the same word so i thought that was a pretty cool one just it is amazing and then um for me Niyyah was really important to me because growing up um when they taught me in my family when i was taught The very first thing that I remember my grandma told me how to pray But the very first thing she said was you have to have the intention and the right intentions Even before taking wudu and then from that you have to also have the intention Yeah, she
I still remember it was the Maghrib time and she
She alhamdulillah may allah bless her. I mean, I still remember that to this day She was like intention is the most important thing and I grew up honestly my parents were like that too intentions behind everything um is very important so whether it's about the dean what it's even about school about people with your relationships with people how you talk to people the intentions of every day making something like just waking up and doing something that you wouldn't do another day to become another person the intentions of going to the gym yeah something like that just taking care of your body those are all important things that that everything comes down to the intention because everything you do whether it is good or bad it comes down to your intentions to your willingness to do it so yeah that's why that was why when i saw i was like okay this is a call like this this word really goes well with also a journey a journey of becoming better because um
yeah you have to have the intentions first to become better wanting to become exactly before anything else so yes so now we're going to talk about subjects our future episodes are going to be on inshallah we're going to be talking about our own journey finding islam because i feel like no matter where you come from or even if you were born in a muslim household you still have to find Islam by yourself. because even if your family were like really really religious you still have to you're kind of being forced to do the act of obligation but then when you find islam yourself and the intention just fall in place and you're praying because you want to pray pray because you like being a muslim not because your mom or your dad tell you hey you have to pray or you're gonna go to to jahanam if done yeah we were all told that yes and not only that but um
Just, you know, sometimes even if you grew up kind of liking it, you still find joy into learning more about it every day. And that also comes down to the intentions of always trying to become a better Muslim, a better human, because Islam does guide you in the way of living. And I feel like if anyone who uses Islam and it's like every day and practices and acts the way Islam tells us to act, then you definitely are a better person. Yeah. Another subject that we're going to talk about is finding love as a young Muslim girlie.
Okay, okay.
I did not put that one.
That one. I'm not gonna lie. I am. I love love. You are too. Yeah, don't even lie. And finding love as a young Muslim girl is it's hard.
Yeah, because I feel like as a girl,
it's just hard to find the right person.
And also not only that it's not easy to find someone but also if in any case you find anybody it's very hard also to do it the right way because there are so many temptations and also our own nafs and just navigating also even finding somebody who wants to do it the right way.
And also ignorant how to do it the right way.
Right.
Which way is the right way.
Nowadays sometimes when you tell some people you want to do it the right way they get shocked. and like it's very hard maybe they think you're too much oh yeah or sometimes your expectations can also be lower than someone else like someone else can be like oh you don't do it this way and then you're like oh maybe we want to do it that way or with normal to do this this way yeah so those are all um subjects we're gonna have inshallah in the podcast and another subject we're gonna have when I live
yeah we're also gonna be talking about African societies and yeah just how different it is than Western Western societies and how much pressure African societies put on girl and even boys and just people in general yeah like the African society of usually obviously we know how
different it is than the western one but um it's still somehow very a cultural shock to be here sometimes and just witnessing some things like there's so much fitna and uh subhanallah the fitna is so huge as i said and also in the podcast we're gonna have guests guest speakers those are gonna be our yeah this is gonna be fun that's gonna be fun again this is just for us to have fun, just let ourselves. breathe and give ourselves some grace because um with everything we handle here it's like a lot so sometimes just having a sit down and we just notice that we will do that all the time so we always yap about interesting stuff so we might as well share it with you exactly and yeah
so yeah so uh-huh we want to talk about also we're going to be talking about the society pressuring us uh of living by their own standards instead of ours. I mean you have to get married you have to be a good mother you have to have children yeah this one is really a hard one for me because how did we normalize like someone minding your own marriage asking you yeah you still don't have kids that's that's actually crazy and mean African culture code yeah so so
not only that but also in the west too like there's also pressure from them somebody who But who wants to get married, the wife is going to tell you, why do you want to get married? Why do you want to do that? Or why don't you want to work? Or why don't you want to stay at home? It's just so much pressure from everyone. Just social norms. You know, it's the social norm, but it's very hard to not get into feeling yourself down or stuff like that about these social norms.
so that's something we're definitely gonna talk about inshallah and also we're gonna talk about the fitna of being a gen z in the west um yeah that one i mean we don't do we have to explain too much about that one because i think this is basically why a lot of people feel like they want to remove their hijabs because they just want to look like everyone uh just you know being
really sometimes it passed that phase where it's not only appealing it becomes an action yeah that's true subhanallah Allah forgive us for our shortcomings but yes there is definitely a huge fitna and also just like being it like back home we used to have people being more modest and stuff like that and here like everyone is wearing shorts and what they will call modesty yeah not modest to you and also just also modesty i believe personally that modesty is a concept that's beyond like yeah appearance yeah and then also again and it's defined to everybody and also the hijab again is comes back as she said um it's in your character and that's something that like i feel like is a struggle to yeah it is um using some language that languages that when not necessarily. later on gonna be proud of or yeah so another subject that we will inshallah be talking about is gonna be the self-pressure of having to succeed because of your family's sacrifice and that's just huge because as two african um first daughter of african household um i feel like i when i met her and then we started talking i was like go You're living my life, you understand me. It is a struggle. Yeah, it is. Not even because your family puts pressure on you. Yeah, nobody puts pressure on you. Alhamdulillah, our families don't do that. They don't put pressure on us. But it's still...
Just the pressure that we put ourselves.
Seeing them making so many sacrifices and just giving you so many opportunities, alhamdulillah.
Yeah.
and you just feel like you can't waste it yeah you don't have exactly you don't have the right to waste it and even though it sometimes even though it can go against yourself um
like what you want to do but again that comes down to also the society's pressure that we previously mentioned yeah so that's definitely something we will touch on in this podcast inshallah and we can also say that we're gonna talking about we're gonna be talking about the high expectations of being the first daughter in an African household yeah this one hmm I think every subject, every topic that we're gonna be talking about is just something that is hard and something that, inshallah, maybe in a couple of years we're gonna break even, I don't think so, but just things that we want to change in the society and...
Yeah, and also it's very hard to find girls that look just like us, like we are a pretty small minority, like being in that small percentage of... women who are black, Muslim, African, hijabi, living in the West specifically, redneck, in a redneck state, is not for the weak.
That's true.
May Allah give us more strength to deal with it. But also, we just want to share our journey, basically. So this is for Paul. We are, again, we're not scholars.
We're all learning.
So now, since this is... all about our intentional journey um and the podcast is almost going to an end for this episode for today yes we made it first first episode hope y'all liked it but um now we're gonna each talk about what specific intentional uh act we're gonna do like we want to have a goal and put the intention into it that we're gonna execute it so what's yours mellina
I think I'm just going to say like keep up with my Quran reading because I feel like ever since I came here I was just been really lacking with my Quran reading because when you stop that's the thing that messes up you don't have to read like 12 pages a day or 20 pages a day but you have to keep going and I just want to keep going yeah consistency no matter how small it is yeah consistency that's why I'm gonna be working here thank you
what's yours in my case um i want to be more conscious with my character because um i feel like that's something i've been overthinking about um as and i'm not an extrovert person but okay no no i'm not i'm not you know i'm not an extrovert but it's just like sometimes i mean when i feel comfortable around people my friends especially I've been having some type of behavior that's not the best sometimes and I've and I want to be always remind myself that hijab is not only about the appearance appearance it's also about the behavior and the character so I want to work especially on my speech what I say and um how I say to people things I say and be more conscious about that inshallah inshallah May Allah make it easy for you. Thank you. Ameen. Allahumma Ameen. Okay, so since now it's almost the end of this episode, y'all please go follow us on Instagram and TikTok. Our name is The Niyyah Journey. It's going to be there, over there. So hopefully y'all can find it easily. It was very nice to have this episode. And for us, actually. For like side note, we started this like, since first of all, we used to have a yapping session all the time. And then we saw that, oh, it's almost black. Friday and microphones are on sale so you guys are lucky y'all are lucky so I hope you enjoyed it and inshallah see you next time or and don't forget to take it one sincere Niyyah at a time take care of yourself and may Allah bless you all
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As-salamu alaykum & welcome to The Niyyah Journey! This episode introduces who we are, why we started this podcast, and what “living with niyyah” means to us. We’re just two Muslim girls figuring things out and taking small, intentional steps toward becoming better - starting with ourselves.
Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.
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Assalamualaikum everyone and welcome to the Niyyah Journey. This is the podcast for the girlies who want to feel confident, intentional and inspired. Making small steps every day toward growth, well-being and starting with ourselves. Disclaimer, disclaimer, we are not scholars and we're just making the intentions of becoming better, being more aware and improving our deen for the sake of allah and we want to share that journey with y'all and if anyone want to come along so may allah make our intentions pure and bless everyone so
what's up assalamu alaikum everyone my name is Mellina and i'm from Niger and mariam said it all i think this is a podcast to just be ourselves and help other girlies and also help ourselves in growing being intentional and i don't know just being better persons inshallah so she already said it we're not claiming to be scholars or anything we're both learning and we hope you guys you girls can
also learn from that inshallah so um this is mariam and i'm from mali um which is a country near Mellina's yeah So as she said, too, this journey is really important to me because I feel like I, we thought about it because at first I wanted to like do something that was different, but at the same time, something that was going to help us become better Muslims and better girlies. So again, we're not scholars. We want to really scratch that one a lot. So just happy to be here. By the way, we are students that... go to university in the U.S. And so that is very important. And that's going to come up in later episodes. And we're going to be talking about the struggles of being a woman, Black, Muslim, African. And by the way, we are studying in a very deep red state, Republican state. So it's not very easy to... to keep being yourself when you're surrounded by people who don't really know a lot about other cultures and stuff like that and just are close to it yeah so yeah um what are we today
this is also a chance for us like just get out of our comfort zone and just be
maybe gain more confidence because it's actually really stressful to do this episode yeah i'm not gonna lie maybe we we had a lot of struggles but i hope y'all are gonna like it and yeah um... are gonna have a lot of small um things you're gonna be learning from this journey so as we already mentioned our podcast name is the Niyyah journey and I'm going to give you a definition of what Niyyah is from Google. Niyyah is the intention behind an action, a fundamental principle in Islam where the motive is considered as important as the act itself. And now we're going to talk about what does that word mean to us and why did we choose it as the name of our podcast. Mellina is going to explain first and I'm going to go ahead.
Yeah, I just feel like intention is basically behind everything we do in life and especially in islam it's really important every action every good deeds that we do it basically goes by the intention yeah because i mean everything we do is behind the intention that we meant by that action and nobody can know better our intention other than allah subhanahu wa ta'ala someone can go to a masjid and you're gonna think like yeah he's basically doing a good deed but you don't know what's his intention behind that so we're just so quick to judge in islam and i actually hate judging yeah i hate judgment so intention is really important for me because that's basically the center of everything we do in life and that's why we
chose the Niyyah journey to me personally i chose the i and that the Niyyah word really was calling to me by the way in my native language uh Niyyah means if you want to say intention is Na Niyyah like my Niyyah and it's the same word so i thought that was a pretty cool one just it is amazing and then um for me Niyyah was really important to me because growing up um when they taught me in my family when i was taught The very first thing that I remember my grandma told me how to pray But the very first thing she said was you have to have the intention and the right intentions Even before taking wudu and then from that you have to also have the intention Yeah, she
I still remember it was the Maghrib time and she
She alhamdulillah may allah bless her. I mean, I still remember that to this day She was like intention is the most important thing and I grew up honestly my parents were like that too intentions behind everything um is very important so whether it's about the dean what it's even about school about people with your relationships with people how you talk to people the intentions of every day making something like just waking up and doing something that you wouldn't do another day to become another person the intentions of going to the gym yeah something like that just taking care of your body those are all important things that that everything comes down to the intention because everything you do whether it is good or bad it comes down to your intentions to your willingness to do it so yeah that's why that was why when i saw i was like okay this is a call like this this word really goes well with also a journey a journey of becoming better because um
yeah you have to have the intentions first to become better wanting to become exactly before anything else so yes so now we're going to talk about subjects our future episodes are going to be on inshallah we're going to be talking about our own journey finding islam because i feel like no matter where you come from or even if you were born in a muslim household you still have to find Islam by yourself. because even if your family were like really really religious you still have to you're kind of being forced to do the act of obligation but then when you find islam yourself and the intention just fall in place and you're praying because you want to pray pray because you like being a muslim not because your mom or your dad tell you hey you have to pray or you're gonna go to to jahanam if done yeah we were all told that yes and not only that but um
Just, you know, sometimes even if you grew up kind of liking it, you still find joy into learning more about it every day. And that also comes down to the intentions of always trying to become a better Muslim, a better human, because Islam does guide you in the way of living. And I feel like if anyone who uses Islam and it's like every day and practices and acts the way Islam tells us to act, then you definitely are a better person. Yeah. Another subject that we're going to talk about is finding love as a young Muslim girlie.
Okay, okay.
I did not put that one.
That one. I'm not gonna lie. I am. I love love. You are too. Yeah, don't even lie. And finding love as a young Muslim girl is it's hard.
Yeah, because I feel like as a girl,
it's just hard to find the right person.
And also not only that it's not easy to find someone but also if in any case you find anybody it's very hard also to do it the right way because there are so many temptations and also our own nafs and just navigating also even finding somebody who wants to do it the right way.
And also ignorant how to do it the right way.
Right.
Which way is the right way.
Nowadays sometimes when you tell some people you want to do it the right way they get shocked. and like it's very hard maybe they think you're too much oh yeah or sometimes your expectations can also be lower than someone else like someone else can be like oh you don't do it this way and then you're like oh maybe we want to do it that way or with normal to do this this way yeah so those are all um subjects we're gonna have inshallah in the podcast and another subject we're gonna have when I live
yeah we're also gonna be talking about African societies and yeah just how different it is than Western Western societies and how much pressure African societies put on girl and even boys and just people in general yeah like the African society of usually obviously we know how
different it is than the western one but um it's still somehow very a cultural shock to be here sometimes and just witnessing some things like there's so much fitna and uh subhanallah the fitna is so huge as i said and also in the podcast we're gonna have guests guest speakers those are gonna be our yeah this is gonna be fun that's gonna be fun again this is just for us to have fun, just let ourselves. breathe and give ourselves some grace because um with everything we handle here it's like a lot so sometimes just having a sit down and we just notice that we will do that all the time so we always yap about interesting stuff so we might as well share it with you exactly and yeah
so yeah so uh-huh we want to talk about also we're going to be talking about the society pressuring us uh of living by their own standards instead of ours. I mean you have to get married you have to be a good mother you have to have children yeah this one is really a hard one for me because how did we normalize like someone minding your own marriage asking you yeah you still don't have kids that's that's actually crazy and mean African culture code yeah so so
not only that but also in the west too like there's also pressure from them somebody who But who wants to get married, the wife is going to tell you, why do you want to get married? Why do you want to do that? Or why don't you want to work? Or why don't you want to stay at home? It's just so much pressure from everyone. Just social norms. You know, it's the social norm, but it's very hard to not get into feeling yourself down or stuff like that about these social norms.
so that's something we're definitely gonna talk about inshallah and also we're gonna talk about the fitna of being a gen z in the west um yeah that one i mean we don't do we have to explain too much about that one because i think this is basically why a lot of people feel like they want to remove their hijabs because they just want to look like everyone uh just you know being
really sometimes it passed that phase where it's not only appealing it becomes an action yeah that's true subhanallah Allah forgive us for our shortcomings but yes there is definitely a huge fitna and also just like being it like back home we used to have people being more modest and stuff like that and here like everyone is wearing shorts and what they will call modesty yeah not modest to you and also just also modesty i believe personally that modesty is a concept that's beyond like yeah appearance yeah and then also again and it's defined to everybody and also the hijab again is comes back as she said um it's in your character and that's something that like i feel like is a struggle to yeah it is um using some language that languages that when not necessarily. later on gonna be proud of or yeah so another subject that we will inshallah be talking about is gonna be the self-pressure of having to succeed because of your family's sacrifice and that's just huge because as two african um first daughter of african household um i feel like i when i met her and then we started talking i was like go You're living my life, you understand me. It is a struggle. Yeah, it is. Not even because your family puts pressure on you. Yeah, nobody puts pressure on you. Alhamdulillah, our families don't do that. They don't put pressure on us. But it's still...
Just the pressure that we put ourselves.
Seeing them making so many sacrifices and just giving you so many opportunities, alhamdulillah.
Yeah.
and you just feel like you can't waste it yeah you don't have exactly you don't have the right to waste it and even though it sometimes even though it can go against yourself um
like what you want to do but again that comes down to also the society's pressure that we previously mentioned yeah so that's definitely something we will touch on in this podcast inshallah and we can also say that we're gonna talking about we're gonna be talking about the high expectations of being the first daughter in an African household yeah this one hmm I think every subject, every topic that we're gonna be talking about is just something that is hard and something that, inshallah, maybe in a couple of years we're gonna break even, I don't think so, but just things that we want to change in the society and...
Yeah, and also it's very hard to find girls that look just like us, like we are a pretty small minority, like being in that small percentage of... women who are black, Muslim, African, hijabi, living in the West specifically, redneck, in a redneck state, is not for the weak.
That's true.
May Allah give us more strength to deal with it. But also, we just want to share our journey, basically. So this is for Paul. We are, again, we're not scholars.
We're all learning.
So now, since this is... all about our intentional journey um and the podcast is almost going to an end for this episode for today yes we made it first first episode hope y'all liked it but um now we're gonna each talk about what specific intentional uh act we're gonna do like we want to have a goal and put the intention into it that we're gonna execute it so what's yours mellina
I think I'm just going to say like keep up with my Quran reading because I feel like ever since I came here I was just been really lacking with my Quran reading because when you stop that's the thing that messes up you don't have to read like 12 pages a day or 20 pages a day but you have to keep going and I just want to keep going yeah consistency no matter how small it is yeah consistency that's why I'm gonna be working here thank you
what's yours in my case um i want to be more conscious with my character because um i feel like that's something i've been overthinking about um as and i'm not an extrovert person but okay no no i'm not i'm not you know i'm not an extrovert but it's just like sometimes i mean when i feel comfortable around people my friends especially I've been having some type of behavior that's not the best sometimes and I've and I want to be always remind myself that hijab is not only about the appearance appearance it's also about the behavior and the character so I want to work especially on my speech what I say and um how I say to people things I say and be more conscious about that inshallah inshallah May Allah make it easy for you. Thank you. Ameen. Allahumma Ameen. Okay, so since now it's almost the end of this episode, y'all please go follow us on Instagram and TikTok. Our name is The Niyyah Journey. It's going to be there, over there. So hopefully y'all can find it easily. It was very nice to have this episode. And for us, actually. For like side note, we started this like, since first of all, we used to have a yapping session all the time. And then we saw that, oh, it's almost black. Friday and microphones are on sale so you guys are lucky y'all are lucky so I hope you enjoyed it and inshallah see you next time or and don't forget to take it one sincere Niyyah at a time take care of yourself and may Allah bless you all
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Assalamualaikum everyone and welcome to the Niyyah Journey. This is the podcast for the girlies who want to feel confident, intentional and inspired. Making small steps every day toward growth, well-being and starting with ourselves. Disclaimer, disclaimer, we are not scholars and we're just making the intentions of becoming better, being more aware and improving our deen for the sake of allah and we want to share that journey with y'all and if anyone want to come along so may allah make our intentions pure and bless everyone so
what's up assalamu alaikum everyone my name is Mellina and i'm from Niger and mariam said it all i think this is a podcast to just be ourselves and help other girlies and also help ourselves in growing being intentional and i don't know just being better persons inshallah so she already said it we're not claiming to be scholars or anything we're both learning and we hope you guys you girls can
also learn from that inshallah so um this is mariam and i'm from mali um which is a country near Mellina's yeah So as she said, too, this journey is really important to me because I feel like I, we thought about it because at first I wanted to like do something that was different, but at the same time, something that was going to help us become better Muslims and better girlies. So again, we're not scholars. We want to really scratch that one a lot. So just happy to be here. By the way, we are students that... go to university in the U.S. And so that is very important. And that's going to come up in later episodes. And we're going to be talking about the struggles of being a woman, Black, Muslim, African. And by the way, we are studying in a very deep red state, Republican state. So it's not very easy to... to keep being yourself when you're surrounded by people who don't really know a lot about other cultures and stuff like that and just are close to it yeah so yeah um what are we today
this is also a chance for us like just get out of our comfort zone and just be
maybe gain more confidence because it's actually really stressful to do this episode yeah i'm not gonna lie maybe we we had a lot of struggles but i hope y'all are gonna like it and yeah um... are gonna have a lot of small um things you're gonna be learning from this journey so as we already mentioned our podcast name is the Niyyah journey and I'm going to give you a definition of what Niyyah is from Google. Niyyah is the intention behind an action, a fundamental principle in Islam where the motive is considered as important as the act itself. And now we're going to talk about what does that word mean to us and why did we choose it as the name of our podcast. Mellina is going to explain first and I'm going to go ahead.
Yeah, I just feel like intention is basically behind everything we do in life and especially in islam it's really important every action every good deeds that we do it basically goes by the intention yeah because i mean everything we do is behind the intention that we meant by that action and nobody can know better our intention other than allah subhanahu wa ta'ala someone can go to a masjid and you're gonna think like yeah he's basically doing a good deed but you don't know what's his intention behind that so we're just so quick to judge in islam and i actually hate judging yeah i hate judgment so intention is really important for me because that's basically the center of everything we do in life and that's why we
chose the Niyyah journey to me personally i chose the i and that the Niyyah word really was calling to me by the way in my native language uh Niyyah means if you want to say intention is Na Niyyah like my Niyyah and it's the same word so i thought that was a pretty cool one just it is amazing and then um for me Niyyah was really important to me because growing up um when they taught me in my family when i was taught The very first thing that I remember my grandma told me how to pray But the very first thing she said was you have to have the intention and the right intentions Even before taking wudu and then from that you have to also have the intention Yeah, she
I still remember it was the Maghrib time and she
She alhamdulillah may allah bless her. I mean, I still remember that to this day She was like intention is the most important thing and I grew up honestly my parents were like that too intentions behind everything um is very important so whether it's about the dean what it's even about school about people with your relationships with people how you talk to people the intentions of every day making something like just waking up and doing something that you wouldn't do another day to become another person the intentions of going to the gym yeah something like that just taking care of your body those are all important things that that everything comes down to the intention because everything you do whether it is good or bad it comes down to your intentions to your willingness to do it so yeah that's why that was why when i saw i was like okay this is a call like this this word really goes well with also a journey a journey of becoming better because um
yeah you have to have the intentions first to become better wanting to become exactly before anything else so yes so now we're going to talk about subjects our future episodes are going to be on inshallah we're going to be talking about our own journey finding islam because i feel like no matter where you come from or even if you were born in a muslim household you still have to find Islam by yourself. because even if your family were like really really religious you still have to you're kind of being forced to do the act of obligation but then when you find islam yourself and the intention just fall in place and you're praying because you want to pray pray because you like being a muslim not because your mom or your dad tell you hey you have to pray or you're gonna go to to jahanam if done yeah we were all told that yes and not only that but um
Just, you know, sometimes even if you grew up kind of liking it, you still find joy into learning more about it every day. And that also comes down to the intentions of always trying to become a better Muslim, a better human, because Islam does guide you in the way of living. And I feel like if anyone who uses Islam and it's like every day and practices and acts the way Islam tells us to act, then you definitely are a better person. Yeah. Another subject that we're going to talk about is finding love as a young Muslim girlie.
Okay, okay.
I did not put that one.
That one. I'm not gonna lie. I am. I love love. You are too. Yeah, don't even lie. And finding love as a young Muslim girl is it's hard.
Yeah, because I feel like as a girl,
it's just hard to find the right person.
And also not only that it's not easy to find someone but also if in any case you find anybody it's very hard also to do it the right way because there are so many temptations and also our own nafs and just navigating also even finding somebody who wants to do it the right way.
And also ignorant how to do it the right way.
Right.
Which way is the right way.
Nowadays sometimes when you tell some people you want to do it the right way they get shocked. and like it's very hard maybe they think you're too much oh yeah or sometimes your expectations can also be lower than someone else like someone else can be like oh you don't do it this way and then you're like oh maybe we want to do it that way or with normal to do this this way yeah so those are all um subjects we're gonna have inshallah in the podcast and another subject we're gonna have when I live
yeah we're also gonna be talking about African societies and yeah just how different it is than Western Western societies and how much pressure African societies put on girl and even boys and just people in general yeah like the African society of usually obviously we know how
different it is than the western one but um it's still somehow very a cultural shock to be here sometimes and just witnessing some things like there's so much fitna and uh subhanallah the fitna is so huge as i said and also in the podcast we're gonna have guests guest speakers those are gonna be our yeah this is gonna be fun that's gonna be fun again this is just for us to have fun, just let ourselves. breathe and give ourselves some grace because um with everything we handle here it's like a lot so sometimes just having a sit down and we just notice that we will do that all the time so we always yap about interesting stuff so we might as well share it with you exactly and yeah
so yeah so uh-huh we want to talk about also we're going to be talking about the society pressuring us uh of living by their own standards instead of ours. I mean you have to get married you have to be a good mother you have to have children yeah this one is really a hard one for me because how did we normalize like someone minding your own marriage asking you yeah you still don't have kids that's that's actually crazy and mean African culture code yeah so so
not only that but also in the west too like there's also pressure from them somebody who But who wants to get married, the wife is going to tell you, why do you want to get married? Why do you want to do that? Or why don't you want to work? Or why don't you want to stay at home? It's just so much pressure from everyone. Just social norms. You know, it's the social norm, but it's very hard to not get into feeling yourself down or stuff like that about these social norms.
so that's something we're definitely gonna talk about inshallah and also we're gonna talk about the fitna of being a gen z in the west um yeah that one i mean we don't do we have to explain too much about that one because i think this is basically why a lot of people feel like they want to remove their hijabs because they just want to look like everyone uh just you know being
really sometimes it passed that phase where it's not only appealing it becomes an action yeah that's true subhanallah Allah forgive us for our shortcomings but yes there is definitely a huge fitna and also just like being it like back home we used to have people being more modest and stuff like that and here like everyone is wearing shorts and what they will call modesty yeah not modest to you and also just also modesty i believe personally that modesty is a concept that's beyond like yeah appearance yeah and then also again and it's defined to everybody and also the hijab again is comes back as she said um it's in your character and that's something that like i feel like is a struggle to yeah it is um using some language that languages that when not necessarily. later on gonna be proud of or yeah so another subject that we will inshallah be talking about is gonna be the self-pressure of having to succeed because of your family's sacrifice and that's just huge because as two african um first daughter of african household um i feel like i when i met her and then we started talking i was like go You're living my life, you understand me. It is a struggle. Yeah, it is. Not even because your family puts pressure on you. Yeah, nobody puts pressure on you. Alhamdulillah, our families don't do that. They don't put pressure on us. But it's still...
Just the pressure that we put ourselves.
Seeing them making so many sacrifices and just giving you so many opportunities, alhamdulillah.
Yeah.
and you just feel like you can't waste it yeah you don't have exactly you don't have the right to waste it and even though it sometimes even though it can go against yourself um
like what you want to do but again that comes down to also the society's pressure that we previously mentioned yeah so that's definitely something we will touch on in this podcast inshallah and we can also say that we're gonna talking about we're gonna be talking about the high expectations of being the first daughter in an African household yeah this one hmm I think every subject, every topic that we're gonna be talking about is just something that is hard and something that, inshallah, maybe in a couple of years we're gonna break even, I don't think so, but just things that we want to change in the society and...
Yeah, and also it's very hard to find girls that look just like us, like we are a pretty small minority, like being in that small percentage of... women who are black, Muslim, African, hijabi, living in the West specifically, redneck, in a redneck state, is not for the weak.
That's true.
May Allah give us more strength to deal with it. But also, we just want to share our journey, basically. So this is for Paul. We are, again, we're not scholars.
We're all learning.
So now, since this is... all about our intentional journey um and the podcast is almost going to an end for this episode for today yes we made it first first episode hope y'all liked it but um now we're gonna each talk about what specific intentional uh act we're gonna do like we want to have a goal and put the intention into it that we're gonna execute it so what's yours mellina
I think I'm just going to say like keep up with my Quran reading because I feel like ever since I came here I was just been really lacking with my Quran reading because when you stop that's the thing that messes up you don't have to read like 12 pages a day or 20 pages a day but you have to keep going and I just want to keep going yeah consistency no matter how small it is yeah consistency that's why I'm gonna be working here thank you
what's yours in my case um i want to be more conscious with my character because um i feel like that's something i've been overthinking about um as and i'm not an extrovert person but okay no no i'm not i'm not you know i'm not an extrovert but it's just like sometimes i mean when i feel comfortable around people my friends especially I've been having some type of behavior that's not the best sometimes and I've and I want to be always remind myself that hijab is not only about the appearance appearance it's also about the behavior and the character so I want to work especially on my speech what I say and um how I say to people things I say and be more conscious about that inshallah inshallah May Allah make it easy for you. Thank you. Ameen. Allahumma Ameen. Okay, so since now it's almost the end of this episode, y'all please go follow us on Instagram and TikTok. Our name is The Niyyah Journey. It's going to be there, over there. So hopefully y'all can find it easily. It was very nice to have this episode. And for us, actually. For like side note, we started this like, since first of all, we used to have a yapping session all the time. And then we saw that, oh, it's almost black. Friday and microphones are on sale so you guys are lucky y'all are lucky so I hope you enjoyed it and inshallah see you next time or and don't forget to take it one sincere Niyyah at a time take care of yourself and may Allah bless you all
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