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"title": "Adam on earth, part 1: the first slip, the first return", "era": {"period": "The first human beings", "anchor": "At the very start of us"}}, {"slug": "adam-on-earth-part-2", "day": 4, "episode_no": 4, "kind": "episode", "phase": "beginnings", "name": "Adam on earth, part 2", "epithet": "The first family, the first murder, and the first soul to taste death", "title": "Adam on earth, part 2: the two sons, the first death, and the gift waiting at the end", "era": {"period": "The first human beings", "place": "The early earth", "anchor": "The first generation born of Adam"}}, {"slug": "shith-the-trust-passed-on", "day": 5, "episode_no": 5, "kind": "episode", "phase": "beginnings", "name": "Shith, the son who kept the flame", "epithet": "The trust passed on, from a father's hand to a son's", "title": "Shith and the trust passed on: the prophet who kept Adam's flame", "era": {"period": "The first human beings", "place": "The mountains, above the valley", "anchor": "In the lifetime of Adam, and just after"}}, {"slug": "idris-raised-to-a-high-place", "day": 6, "episode_no": 6, "kind": "episode", "phase": "beginnings", "name": "Idris, raised to a high place", "epithet": "Two verses, and a meeting in the fourth heaven", "title": "Idris, raised to a high place: the prophet the Messenger ﷺ met in the heavens", "era": {"period": "The first human beings", "anchor": "The seventh generation from Adam"}}, {"slug": "nuh-and-the-flood", "day": 7, "episode_no": 7, "kind": "episode", "phase": "warners", "name": "Nuh and the flood", "epithet": "Nine hundred and fifty years of calling, and a handful who listened", "title": "Nuh and the flood: the prophet who called for 950 years", "era": {"period": "The early warners", "anchor": "Not very far from Adam, peace be upon him"}}, {"slug": "hud-and-the-people-of-ad", "day": 8, "episode_no": 8, "kind": "episode", "phase": "warners", "name": "Hud and the people of Ad", "epithet": "The mightiest nation Allah ever made, and the wind that left no trace of them", "title": "Hud and the people of Ad: when strength was no shield", "era": {"period": "The early warners", "place": "Al-Ahqaf, the sand dunes of southern Arabia", "anchor": "The generations after Nuh, peace be upon him"}}, {"slug": "salih-and-the-she-camel", "day": 9, "episode_no": 9, "kind": "episode", "phase": "warners", "name": "Salih and the she-camel", "epithet": "A sign they asked for out of the rock, and the night they hamstrung it", "title": "Salih and the she-camel: the sign Thamud asked for, and then killed", "era": {"period": "The early warners", "place": "Al-Hijr, in the rocky north of Arabia", "anchor": "After Ad, before Ibrahim, peace be upon them"}}, {"slug": "ibrahim-the-friend-of-allah-part-1", "day": 10, "episode_no": 10, "kind": "episode", "phase": "khalil", "name": "Ibrahim, the friend of Allah, part 1", "epithet": "A boy who reasoned his way to the One, and stood alone", "title": "Ibrahim, the friend of Allah, part 1: the broken idols and the fire that cooled", "era": {"period": "The friend of the Most Merciful", "place": "Babylon, in the land of Iraq", "anchor": "In the days of the king Nimrud"}}, {"slug": "ibrahim-the-friend-of-allah-part-2", "day": 11, "episode_no": 11, "kind": "episode", "phase": "khalil", "name": "Ibrahim, the friend of Allah, part 2", "epithet": "The sound heart that out-argued a king and feared no one but his Lord", "title": "Ibrahim, the friend of Allah, part 2: the debate with the king and the migration out", "era": {"period": "The friend of the Most Merciful", "place": "From Babylon, through Haran and Sham, to Egypt", "anchor": "After the fire, the long migration begins"}}, {"slug": "ibrahim-and-ismail-part-3", "day": 12, "episode_no": 12, "kind": "episode", "phase": "khalil", "name": "Ibrahim and Ismail, part 3", "epithet": "A wife, a baby, and a valley with nothing in it", "title": "Ibrahim and Ismail, part 3: the barren valley, Hajar's run, and the water that never stopped", "era": {"period": "The friend of the Most Merciful", "place": "The barren valley of Makkah", "anchor": "Long before there was a city there"}}, {"slug": "ibrahim-and-ismail-part-4", "day": 13, "episode_no": 13, "kind": "episode", "phase": "khalil", "name": "Ibrahim and Ismail, part 4", "epithet": "The knife, the ransom, and the house they raised together", "title": "Ibrahim and Ismail, part 4: the sacrifice, the Ka'bah, and the messenger they prayed for", "era": {"period": "The friend of the Most Merciful", "place": "Makkah", "anchor": "Generations before the Prophet ﷺ"}}, {"slug": "lut-and-the-overturned-towns", "day": 14, "episode_no": 14, "kind": "episode", "phase": "khalil", "name": "Lut and the overturned towns", "epithet": "One man against a people who called the forbidden normal", "title": "Lut and the overturned towns: a prophet who would not call the forbidden normal", "era": {"period": "The friend of the Most Merciful", "place": "Sodom, near the Dead Sea", "anchor": "In the days of Ibrahim, before Ishaq was born"}}, {"slug": "yaqub-and-yusuf-part-1", "day": 15, "episode_no": 15, "kind": "episode", "phase": "yusuf", "name": "Yaqub and Yusuf, part 1", "epithet": "A dream, a brother's envy, and a father's beautiful patience", "title": "Yaqub and Yusuf, part 1: the dream, the well, and beautiful patience", "era": {"period": "Tested, then chosen", "place": "Canaan", "anchor": "Two generations after Ibrahim"}}, {"slug": "yusuf-part-2", "day": 16, "episode_no": 16, "kind": "episode", "phase": "yusuf", "name": "Yusuf, part 2", "epithet": "He chose the prison over the sin, and Allah was planning all along", "title": "Yusuf, part 2: the refuge, the torn shirt, and the prison he asked for", "era": {"period": "Tested, then chosen", "place": "Egypt, the house of al-Aziz", "anchor": "The boy from the well, now grown"}}, {"slug": "yusuf-part-3", "day": 17, "episode_no": 17, "kind": "episode", "phase": "yusuf", "name": "Yusuf, part 3", "epithet": "No blame upon you today: the brother who chose forgiveness over revenge", "title": "Yusuf, part 3: 'no blame upon you today' and the dream fulfilled", "era": {"period": "Tested, then chosen", "place": "Egypt", "anchor": "Decades after the well"}}, {"slug": "ayyub-and-yunus", "day": 18, "episode_no": 18, "kind": "episode", "phase": "yusuf", "name": "Ayyub and Yunus", "epithet": "The patience that would not break, and the cry in three darknesses", "title": "Ayyub and Yunus: patience that would not break, and the cry in the dark", "era": {"period": "Tested, then chosen", "place": "From the land of Ayyub to a coast near Iraq", "anchor": "Two prophets, two trials, one Lord"}}, {"slug": "musa-and-harun-part-1", "day": 19, "episode_no": 19, "kind": "episode", "phase": "musa", "name": "Musa and Harun, part 1", "epithet": "Floated down the very river that was meant to kill him", "title": "Musa and Harun, part 1: the baby in the river and the palace of his enemy", "era": {"period": "Musa and the Children of Israel", "place": "Egypt, and the wells of Madyan", "anchor": "The most-told prophet in the Qur'an"}}, {"slug": "musa-and-harun-part-2", "day": 20, "episode_no": 20, "kind": "episode", "phase": "musa", "name": "Musa and Harun, part 2", "epithet": "A fire on a dark mountain, and the voice of the One who made him", "title": "Musa and Harun, part 2: the fire, the voice, and the du'a before Pharaoh", "era": {"period": "Musa and the Children of Israel", "place": "Mount Tur, on the road back to Egypt", "anchor": "After ten years in Madyan"}}, {"slug": "musa-and-harun-part-3", "day": 21, "episode_no": 21, "kind": "episode", "phase": "musa", "name": "Musa and Harun, part 3", "epithet": "The magicians who believed in an instant, and the king who believed too late", "title": "Musa and Harun, part 3: the confrontation, the signs, and the sea", "era": {"period": "Musa and the Children of Israel", "place": "Egypt", "anchor": "The morning at the sea"}}, {"slug": "musa-and-bani-israil-part-1", "day": 22, "episode_no": 22, "kind": "episode", "phase": "musa", "name": "Musa and the Children of Israel, part 1", "epithet": "Saved on Monday, asking for an idol by Tuesday", "title": "Musa and the Children of Israel, part 1: the calf, the mountain, and a nation's short memory", "era": {"period": "Musa and the Children of Israel", "place": "The far shore of the sea, and the mountain", "anchor": "After Pharaoh drowned"}}, {"slug": "musa-and-bani-israil-part-2", "day": 23, "episode_no": 23, "kind": "episode", "phase": "musa", "name": "Musa and the Children of Israel, part 2", "epithet": "A nation handed everything, still learning to obey", "title": "Musa and the Children of Israel, part 2: the cow, Qarun, and the knowledge of al-Khidr", "era": {"period": "Musa and the Children of Israel", "place": "After the sea, in the wilderness", "anchor": "The years of wandering"}}, {"slug": "shuayb-and-the-honest-scale", "day": 24, "episode_no": 24, "kind": "episode", "phase": "musa", "name": "Shu'ayb and the honest scale", "epithet": "The prophet who put faith inside the marketplace", "title": "Shu'ayb and the honest scale: when faith reaches into your trade", "era": {"period": "Musa and the Children of Israel", "place": "Madyan", "anchor": "Around the time of Musa, across the sea"}}, {"slug": "between-musa-and-dawud", "day": 25, "episode_no": 25, "kind": "episode", "phase": "kings", "name": "Between Musa and Dawud", "epithet": "Joshua, a plague, a hundred years asleep, and a boy with a sling", "title": "Between Musa and Dawud: Yusha, Uzair, Talut, and the boy who felled Jalut", "era": {"period": "The kings who bowed", "place": "From the wilderness to the holy land", "anchor": "The generations after Musa"}}, {"slug": "dawud-the-grateful", "day": 26, "episode_no": 26, "kind": "episode", "phase": "kings", "name": "Dawud, the grateful", "epithet": "Given a kingdom, and he stayed on his knees", "title": "Dawud, given a kingdom and kept grateful", "era": {"period": "The kings who bowed", "place": "The land of Bani Israil", "anchor": "After the sling that felled Goliath"}}, {"slug": "sulayman-and-the-kingdom-part-1", "day": 27, "episode_no": 27, "kind": "episode", "phase": "kings", "name": "Sulayman and the kingdom, part 1", "epithet": "A king who asked only to be grateful", "title": "Sulayman and the kingdom, part 1: the wind, the ant, and the throne", "era": {"period": "The prophet-kings of the Children of Israel", "place": "Jerusalem to Sheba", "anchor": "After his father Dawud, peace be upon him"}}, {"slug": "sulayman-and-the-line-of-zakariyya", "day": 28, "episode_no": 28, "kind": "episode", "phase": "kings", "name": "Sulayman, part 2, and the line of Zakariyya", "epithet": "A king who fell leaning on his staff, and an old man who whispered for a son", "title": "Sulayman's death, Ilyas, Dhul-Kifl, Zakariyya and Yahya: the line that leads on", "era": {"period": "The kings who bowed", "place": "Jerusalem, and the land of Bani Israil", "anchor": "From Sulayman's last breath to the prophets who followed"}}, {"slug": "isa-the-word-of-allah", "day": 29, "episode_no": 29, "kind": "finale", "phase": "isa", "name": "Isa, the word of Allah", "epithet": "Born by His word, raised by His hand, and the last prophet to point at the next", "title": "Isa, the word of Allah: the finale of the Stories of the Prophets", "era": {"period": "The word of Allah", "place": "Bethlehem and Jerusalem", "anchor": "The last prophet before him ﷺ"}}]