Alamu alaqm, guys. Welcome to episode 395 of Freshly Grounded. This episode fresh

of grounded is a very special episode to me. It's very close to my heart and it, yeah, it's just

super special man. I'll tell you guys why. So Idris who we have on the podcast is one of my best friends.

And I've known him for about 12 years. And he was basically my first ever friend that I made when I started practicing Islam.

And so I went through a really dark time where I felt like I didn't have any friends.

Being an extrovert, I rely and lean so much on other people and on friendships.

And so, you know, seeing the light of Islam, you know,

made me feel a bit lost in friendships because I felt like, you know, the friends that I had

before just weren't, and, you know, there were great people where they perhaps just were

not aligned with my new way of life. Anyway, fast forward, you'll hear how we met, but

I, Jesus is the first friend that I'd met, and he was someone who I really looked up to,

he was a hafid of Quran, at the time, sorry, he was like, you know, very strong in his

Quran and his memorization, you know, these times I couldn't even read alif Baatar,

he was, you know, just so soft with me. And he really nurtured me.

You know, he was actually three years younger than me,

but I spent all my time with him for like a good eight months.

And he was my only friend at that point.

And he did so much for me and shaped my life in so many ways for the mercy of Allah.

And I ended up even, you know, we're still

tied to this day. Like I ended up marrying into his family and his brother Solomon works for us

now freshly grounded. There's just so many ways we like continue to be connected. We actually now

neighbors as well. And I never thought this episode would happen. And the reason I never thought it would

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