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And that's why my family wasn't really religious, because for over 100 years, this atheism

propaganda was really taught in schools, in everyone.

They were trying to gut Islam for a century.

Yeah.

So having to actually write a paper on the existence of God, that was kind of like I was kind of like mindstruck.

Like what do I even write?

Like my paper was blank for about a week.

I didn't even know what to write.

And what we often do in our study of history,

these last 400 years, the most recent 400 years,

is we separate the Islamic history, Islamic scholarly history, from the political history.

We saw, as though they're two separate subjects.

Islam, religion and politics are never separate.

They're never separate.

The state or forces or money is always involved in what becomes the dominant narrative. Now think about that for a moment.

Parents are a core part of your identity, right? Both physically and psychologically and socially,

in everywhere, right? Now take that back. Who's our parent? Adam. Adam. Like if you don't know your

parent, then you don't really know you.

The way Allah talks about Adam,

a.

In Suu'u'u'uqara,

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