[{"slug": "introduction-to-the-examples", "day": 1, "episode_no": 1, "kind": "prologue", "phase": "prologue", "name": "Why Allah strikes examples", "epithet": "An introduction to the amthal, the pictures Allah draws in the Qur'an", "title": "Why Allah strikes examples in the Qur'an: an introduction to the amthal", "parable": {"surah": "The amthal of the Qur'an", "image": "Why Allah draws pictures", "mirror": "The way a heart learns"}}, {"slug": "fanning-the-flames", "day": 2, "episode_no": 2, "kind": "episode", "phase": "counterfeit", "name": "Fanning the flames", "epithet": "The one who kindled a fire, and was left in the dark", "title": "Fanning the flames: the one who kindled a fire (al-Baqarah 2:17-18)", "parable": {"surah": "Al-Baqarah 2:17-18", "image": "One who kindled a fire", "mirror": "The hypocrite, blind beside the light"}}, {"slug": "rain-and-thunder", "day": 3, "episode_no": 3, "kind": "episode", "phase": "counterfeit", "name": "Rain and thunder", "epithet": "Caught in the storm, frozen between the flashes of light", "title": "Rain and thunder: caught in the storm (al-Baqarah 2:19-20)", "parable": {"surah": "Al-Baqarah 2:19-20", "image": "One caught in a thunderstorm at night", "mirror": "The heart for whom revelation is a torment, not a mercy"}}, {"slug": "hearts-of-stone", "day": 4, "episode_no": 4, "kind": "episode", "phase": "counterfeit", "name": "Hearts of stone", "epithet": "Harder than the rock that splits and gushes water", "title": "Hearts of stone: harder than the rock that splits (al-Baqarah 2:74)", "parable": {"surah": "Al-Baqarah 2:74", "image": "Rock that splits and gushes water", "mirror": "A heart gone hard beside the proof"}}, {"slug": "empty-cries", "day": 5, "episode_no": 5, "kind": "episode", "phase": "counterfeit", "name": "Empty cries", "epithet": "The sheep that come running to a sound that means nothing", "title": "Empty cries: the flock that answers a sound (al-Baqarah 2:171)", "parable": {"surah": "Al-Baqarah 2:171", "image": "A shepherd calling, and the flock that answers", "mirror": "The heart that follows without thinking"}}, {"slug": "charitys-harvest", "day": 6, "episode_no": 6, "kind": "episode", "phase": "giving", "name": "Charity's harvest", "epithet": "One seed in the ground, and seven hundred grains it could not have imagined", "title": "Charity's harvest: the grain of seven ears (al-Baqarah 2:261)", "parable": {"surah": "Al-Baqarah 2:261", "image": "A single grain that grows seven ears", "mirror": "What Allah does with the little you give for His sake"}}, {"slug": "barren-and-fertile-ground", "day": 7, "episode_no": 7, "kind": "episode", "phase": "giving", "name": "Barren and fertile ground", "epithet": "A rock dressed as good soil, and a garden on a height", "title": "Barren and fertile ground: two kinds of giving (al-Baqarah 2:264-265)", "parable": {"surah": "Al-Baqarah 2:264-265", "image": "Two plots of ground in the rain", "mirror": "The heart underneath your giving"}}, {"slug": "blazing-whirlwinds", "day": 8, "episode_no": 8, "kind": "episode", "phase": "giving", "name": "Blazing whirlwinds", "epithet": "A whole garden, grown over a lifetime, burnt in a single hour", "title": "Blazing whirlwinds: a garden burnt in an hour (al-Baqarah 2:266)", "parable": {"surah": "Al-Baqarah 2:266", "image": "A dream garden struck by a whirlwind of fire", "mirror": "A lifetime of giving, cancelled by your own hand"}}, {"slug": "touched-by-the-devil", "day": 9, "episode_no": 9, "kind": "episode", "phase": "giving", "name": "Touched by the devil", "epithet": "The one who consumes interest, standing like a man the devil has beaten senseless", "title": "Touched by the devil: those who consume interest (al-Baqarah 2:275)", "parable": {"surah": "Al-Baqarah 2:275", "image": "A man rising as if beaten by Satan", "mirror": "The heart deranged by greed"}}, {"slug": "adam-and-jesus", "day": 10, "episode_no": 10, "kind": "episode", "phase": "seeing", "name": "Adam and Jesus", "epithet": "Two men, each made by a single word", "title": "Adam and Jesus: the likeness of Isa is as Adam (Aal Imran 3:59)", "parable": {"surah": "Aal Imran 3:59", "image": "Isa, whose likeness before Allah is as Adam's", "mirror": "A heart deciding whether the sign is a son, or a sign"}}, {"slug": "biting-wind", "day": 11, "episode_no": 11, "kind": "episode", "phase": "seeing", "name": "Biting wind", "epithet": "A wind with frost in it, come down on a field that was doomed already", "title": "Biting wind: a frost on the harvest (Aal Imran 3:117)", "parable": {"surah": "Aal Imran 3:117", "image": "A frost-laden wind on a harvest", "mirror": "Everything spent for the wrong reason"}}, {"slug": "lured-by-devils", "day": 12, "episode_no": 12, "kind": "episode", "phase": "seeing", "name": "Lured by devils", "epithet": "The one pulled off the cliff, wandering, with friends calling him home", "title": "Lured by devils: the one pulled off the path (al-An'am 6:71)", "parable": {"surah": "Al-An'am 6:71", "image": "One the devils lured off the path", "mirror": "The believer being pulled back into the dark"}}, {"slug": "walking-in-light", "day": 13, "episode_no": 13, "kind": "episode", "phase": "seeing", "name": "Walking in light", "epithet": "The one brought from death to a light, walking with it among people in the dark", "title": "Walking in light: from death to a light to walk by (al-An'am 6:122)", "parable": {"surah": "Al-An'am 6:122", "image": "One given a light to walk by", "mirror": "The heart woken from death, the one who will not leave the dark"}}, {"slug": "narrowed-chests", "day": 14, "episode_no": 14, "kind": "episode", "phase": "seeing", "name": "Narrowed chests", "epithet": "One chest thrown open to the air, one squeezed shut as it climbs the sky", "title": "Narrowed chests: the chest opened and the chest squeezed shut (al-An'am 6:125)", "parable": {"surah": "Al-An'am 6:125", "image": "A chest opened wide, a chest squeezed shut", "mirror": "Which one you can breathe in tonight"}}, {"slug": "panting-dogs", "day": 15, "episode_no": 15, "kind": "episode", "phase": "astray", "name": "Panting dogs", "epithet": "The one given Allah's signs, who clung to the earth instead", "title": "Panting dogs: the one who clung to the earth (al-A'raf 7:175-176)", "parable": {"surah": "Al-A'raf 7:175-176", "image": "A dog that pants either way", "mirror": "The one who knew, and clung to the earth"}}, {"slug": "stray-cattle", "day": 16, "episode_no": 16, "kind": "episode", "phase": "astray", "name": "Stray cattle", "epithet": "Given hearts that do not understand, eyes that do not see, ears that do not hear", "title": "Stray cattle: hearts that do not understand (al-A'raf 7:179)", "parable": {"surah": "Al-A'raf 7:179", "image": "Cattle grazing beside the danger they cannot feel", "mirror": "The heart with every faculty, using none of them"}}, {"slug": "depths-of-desperation", "day": 17, "episode_no": 17, "kind": "episode", "phase": "astray", "name": "Depths of desperation", "epithet": "The ones who called on Allah alone, only while the ship was going down", "title": "Depths of desperation: the cry from the sinking ship (Yunus 10:22-23)", "parable": {"surah": "Yunus 10:22-23", "image": "A ship caught in a sudden storm", "mirror": "The faith that surfaces only in the sinking, and sinks again on dry land"}}, {"slug": "lustrous-land", "day": 18, "episode_no": 18, "kind": "episode", "phase": "astray", "name": "Lustrous land", "epithet": "The field dressed in gold, and cut down before dawn", "title": "Lustrous land: the field dressed in gold then cut down (Yunus 10:24)", "parable": {"surah": "Yunus 10:24", "image": "A field bloomed to its most beautiful, then mown flat", "mirror": "The heart that thinks it owns the world it worked for"}}, {"slug": "reaching-for-water", "day": 19, "episode_no": 19, "kind": "episode", "phase": "fading", "name": "Reaching for water", "epithet": "The one who stretches his hands toward water that never reaches his mouth", "title": "Reaching for water: hands stretched toward what never comes (ar-Ra'd 13:14)", "parable": {"surah": "Ar-Ra'd 13:14", "image": "Hands stretched toward water", "mirror": "The heart that calls on anyone but Allah"}}, {"slug": "fading-foam", "day": 20, "episode_no": 20, "kind": "episode", "phase": "fading", "name": "Fading foam", "epithet": "The froth the flood lifts high, and then carries away to nothing", "title": "Fading foam: the froth a flood carries away (ar-Ra'd 13:17)", "parable": {"surah": "Ar-Ra'd 13:17", "image": "Foam riding the crest of a flood", "mirror": "What in you is froth, and what will stay"}}, {"slug": "a-mound-of-ash", "day": 21, "episode_no": 21, "kind": "episode", "phase": "fading", "name": "A mound of ash", "epithet": "A lifetime of deeds, scattered by a single storm", "title": "A mound of ash: deeds the wind scatters (Ibrahim 14:18)", "parable": {"surah": "Ibrahim 14:18", "image": "Ash in a storm-force wind", "mirror": "A life of deeds with no Lord above them"}}, {"slug": "firm-roots-and-high-branches", "day": 22, "episode_no": 22, "kind": "episode", "phase": "word", "name": "Firm roots and high branches", "epithet": "A good word, like a good tree, its root deep and its branches in the sky", "title": "Firm roots and high branches: the good word like a good tree (Ibrahim 14:24-25)", "parable": {"surah": "Ibrahim 14:24-25", "image": "A good word, like a good tree", "mirror": "A heart rooted in something it truly knows"}}, {"slug": "uprooted", "day": 23, "episode_no": 23, "kind": "episode", "phase": "word", "name": "Uprooted", "epithet": "An evil word, like an evil tree, torn from the ground with nothing left to stand on", "title": "Uprooted: the evil word like an evil tree (Ibrahim 14:26)", "parable": {"surah": "Ibrahim 14:26", "image": "An evil word, like an evil tree, uprooted", "mirror": "A life grown tall on shallow roots"}}, {"slug": "a-firm-word", "day": 24, "episode_no": 24, "kind": "episode", "phase": "word", "name": "A firm word", "epithet": "Kept standing, in this life and the next, by the firm word", "title": "A firm word: kept standing by the firm word (Ibrahim 14:27)", "parable": {"surah": "Ibrahim 14:27", "image": "A peg driven deep, a belt pulled tight", "mirror": "A believer who will not be swayed"}}, {"slug": "enslaved", "day": 25, "episode_no": 25, "kind": "episode", "phase": "twomen", "name": "Enslaved", "epithet": "An owned slave who controls nothing, and a free man who gives", "title": "Enslaved: the owned slave and the free man (an-Nahl 16:75)", "parable": {"surah": "An-Nahl 16:75", "image": "An owned slave, and a free man who spends", "mirror": "Whose service you are really in"}}, {"slug": "dead-weight", "day": 26, "episode_no": 26, "kind": "episode", "phase": "twomen", "name": "Dead weight", "epithet": "A man who can do nothing, set beside a man who commands justice", "title": "Dead weight: the mute burden and the voice of justice (an-Nahl 16:76)", "parable": {"surah": "An-Nahl 16:76", "image": "Two men, one a mute burden", "mirror": "The one who stays silent for safety"}}, {"slug": "unravelled-yarn", "day": 27, "episode_no": 27, "kind": "episode", "phase": "twomen", "name": "Unravelled yarn", "epithet": "She who spun her thread strong, then tore it back to fluff", "title": "Unravelled yarn: she who untwisted her spun thread (an-Nahl 16:92)", "parable": {"surah": "An-Nahl 16:92", "image": "A woman who unspins her own thread", "mirror": "The believer who undoes years of good"}}]