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Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wa barakatuh

Alhamdulillah, he wa hada, wa salatu wa salamu ala mala nabiyya bada hama bad

I do apologize I'm a little bit jet lagged

I just came back from my eight country tour and I have to go another country in a few days inshaAllah

uta ala

I also want to confess I don't have a prepared lecture

I'm going to speak from the heart sometimes they're the best sometimes are the worst

I want to go back when the title was handed to me on a personal note

when I first started

Practicing Islam academically when I was first introduced to the study of Islam

I was probably 16 years old 17 years old. This is back in the 90s and

The people that I was around they taught me that's what I need to be concerned about

Was following the specifics of the Sunnah as they understood it and so for a while

I became very interested in what is the Sunnah way to pray what is the Sunnah way to fast and you know

We we would study a lot about the specific Ahadith and the specific methodology within the various legal schools

Allah subhanahu ta'ala blessed me to go study with Olamah overseas and the more I studied mainstream

Firk and the schools of Islamic law the more I realized that all of these mainstream schools are actually following the Sunnah

There's no competition between them and

Really as long as you're following any of the schools of Hamd al-Ada that's basically following the Sunnah

So I moved on to another phase of my life

Because I realized all of these schools are prophetic. There's no there's no competition between them

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