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We thank Allah for having finished our Salat al-Ishah and for waiting here for no other reason, except to be reminded of him, except for the brotherhood of Islam, except to be in the presence of one of Insha'Allah, the inheritors of the Prophet.

So Allah, O Ali, He was Salam, our senior and our elder Imam Zaid Shakat who has traveled all the way while he was in Houston before that he's in Connecticut in California.

He has traveled to the city just to be with us tonight and he's heading back to Houston, not giving the Khutbah over here.

It was just a personal favor to us in this community.

So we really appreciate Imam Zaid's coming all of this way to be amongst us.

So welcome to our community, Imam Zaid.

I have a question here.

I'm the last owner to be here, and I love this everybody.

Close to you.

Those who sacrifice to make this center possible may Allah give them a big edure and all of you who take time from your busy commies and goings to come to the masjid to pray.

Salam alaikum Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh.

So Imam Zaid, we have a custom of sometimes going atypical with our guests.

People listen to your Khutbah's and the ruse online and on YouTube.

But when we invite our guests, we go a little bit deeper.

We want to know who our guests are.

So we're going to be putting you on the spot.

This is actually not the comfortable seat. This is the hot seat.

If you can't take the heat, don't get in the kitchen.

So we're going to put you on the hot seat and ask you a little bit more.

We want to know more about the Imam Zaid behind the scenes.

We want to know about Zaid Şakir, pre-Islam, early Islam, studying Islam, and then finally, sheikh and Imam Mufti al-Anam, insha'Allah, Zaid Şakir.

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