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We are honored to host our brother, Sheikh Mustafa Briggs, who is the author of the book Beyond

Black History in Islam, which talks about the history of not just black companions, but

actually the history or black history throughout up until, in fact, the present time here in

the United States in Islam and the important relationship between those two worlds.

In the name of Allah, He has been on a tour here sponsored by Amana Mutual Funds and we actually

met, we were, first, your first visit was Tiaqeen, Hamdulillah. So as soon as he got off the plane,

I had a chance to meet him and we had a chance to spend some time together. I'm not going to say

what type of food we ate. That's up to you if you want to share that or not. That might be

blasphemous, but we had some good food, Hamdulillah, but I mean, we got a chance to really

get to know Sheikh Mustafa and appreciate sort of his journey, which I'm sure he'll share a lot of

that today, but in the dahi ta'ala. And I'm glad that he has made value-wrench Islamic

Center a stop. My first question for you is value-wrench Islamic Center or epic?

Before we started the interview, Hamdulillah, peace be upon you, peace be upon you. Before we

started the interview, Sheikh said, I'm going to ask you some very difficult questions, but I didn't

put in how difficult it was. Personally, it's a very, very big honor for me to be here because

from a distance, as you can tell by my funny accent, I'm from the UK, and I've been watching

videos that take place in this mustard for years. Hamdulillah, I'm an active follower of the YouTube

page. I follow a lot of the Khutvas, I follow all of the classes. So to be here in real life and see

the messages, it means a lot to me. So it's touched my heart, Hamdulillah. So the RIC, right?

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