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Sala malaq.

O'Lahlai al-Aqsaqsa. what is what is what I'm bia,

I will Marceline,

and al-Ih, al-Ih, al-Ih, al-Ih, al-Ih, what al-Ih, al-Ih, al-Ih, al-Ihah, and al-I'll al-Ihahmium. O'Almah, I'm in a middle school, I'm in a hut.

What I was a sub-a-minia-a-al-a-mien.

So I'm interested to know who my childhood friends are because I moved here when I was a teenager.

I was a teenager.

I'm curious, but anyway.

I'd like to start actually with a sentiment that I've been feeling since I landed here.

This is the place certainly of my youth. I've been in near I've spent most of my adult life I could still say safely in this city and I think I can safely say also I discovered Islam in this city. My Arabic teachers are from this city,

my Quran teachers are from the city. I owe basically whatever Allah Allahazujah has planned for me in my life is attributed to this place.

So I have a special place in my heart for this city and of course some of my dearest friends,

more than half of whom I've already successfully moved to Texas

are still in this city.

Some of them are still left.

I'm here back for them, not for you.

Actually, I'm going to move all of them back.

But anyway, when I do come back, especially when I hang out in Queens, I'm reminded of some poetry in the Arabic language.

The poet says, yeah, and I mean, yeah, Iizu alaina and no far icha whom, which d'Anunakulah shay imbada cum.

He tells his friend, you know, it's so hard for me, you're the one that it's so hard to part with and everything I find after you is like finding

nothing like I haven't really found anything once I left you not that I feel like that

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