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So it is our distinct pleasure and honor to welcome a guest to our community coming to us from

Cleveland and that is our brother Bashir Jones and I did not know this until he reminded me

with the phone. We have actually spoken together at various conventions and conferences.

Our brother Bashir Jones is going to tell us a little bit about himself but just in a nutshell,

not only is he the first Muslim city councilman for the city of Cleveland and inshallah he has

higher political aspirations which we are going to hear inshallah but one thing that makes our

brother Bashir different from many other Muslim politicians is that he is also studied Islamic

sciences to a good degree and he does give khudbas and he does he is active on the speaking

circuit and as we are aware almost all Muslims will enter politics by and large they haven't

studied Islam and they are disconnected from our tradition the academic side of things but

brother Bashir alhamdulillah he has studied informally and he also has a master's degree from bayan

seminary as well in Islamic studies so alhamdulillah and he does give khudbas and he is active

on the Islamic circuit I actually gave talks with him he reminded me at a number of conventions

and I didn't know that he was running for politics back then and then he ran for politics and he

was a city councilman. So inshallah Bismillah first and foremost welcome to our community

to the university. This is so beautiful I just this is like mind blowing for me in Cleveland maybe

five ten people twenty the max just to see this many people come out for salat so final

this is not a week night you haven't seen weekend and this is just your standard one of the

mill week night alhamdulillah so I know time is limited and I know brothers and sisters it's a

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