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🗓️ 17 September 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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In this heartfelt and impromptu episode of Freshly Grounded, I reflect on the passing of Imam Umar Tate—a man who had a profound impact on my early journey into the deen.
Imam Umar wasn't widely known, but his wisdom left a lasting mark on me and many others, shaping how I approach life and faith today. In this episode, I share the key lesson he taught me that has influenced Freshly Grounded and possibly even saved my akhira. It’s a lesson about the importance of concealing sins, seeking forgiveness, and how those small, impactful moments can change our lives forever.
Join me as I pass on his wisdom and reflect on the importance of legacy, sadaqah jariyah, and the power of quiet, humble influence.
May Allah grant him the highest rank in Jannah.
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0:00.0 | Okay, I'm alle come so a completely impromptu episode of the pod right now. |
0:06.6 | I actually we haven't done a podcast in a few weeks and I was going to make a separate video explaining why, |
0:11.2 | which I'll still do separately, but the long and short of it is that I had a couple health issues and so I had to focus on that. |
0:19.0 | And I'll explain that in a letter video maybe in in a couple weeks or months time in Shada, but the reason I'm making an impromptu video by myself now is because I saw a post by |
0:35.4 | Shech Abdullahheim Murphy, no, |
0:39.2 | Shech Abdullahheim Green. |
0:41.0 | I mixed up various names there. And it was about a man, an |
0:50.0 | imam called Amur, who I knew as imamamor from years ago. And the post says, so I'm reading from |
1:00.9 | from Abdrahma, Abdrahim Green. |
1:03.7 | He says, the sad news has reached us of the passing of my friend |
1:08.8 | and that our legend Omar Tate. |
1:11.5 | Omar was from upon the path of Thaweed and Sunna and a pioneer of street dawa in this country. |
1:17.3 | It was his experience of running IPO which ran Dowell tables up and down in the UK from the 1990s that laid the |
1:25.8 | foundations of Aera's approach to new Muslim care. When discussing what approach |
1:30.7 | we should take since their potential needs could almost |
1:34.8 | Since when discussing what approach we should take since their potential needs could be almost |
1:40.3 | endless he said they don't need molycoddling. |
1:44.0 | If you educate them properly in the foundations of the Dean, |
1:47.2 | that's everything they need. |
1:48.9 | He continues and says, |
1:50.4 | many people might not know him or may have never heard of him but he was a giant literally he was a big guy and figuratively |
1:57.2 | The loss of any Muslim is a disaster that's part of why we say in all |
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