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Asim Allah, al-hambhally Allah, and Salat and al-a-a-shappi and on his and his ha'amah ma'amabad.

As perhaps some of you are aware, last month I visited Japan for the first

D'a-a-trip there, and I went to a number of communities and cities, and was a very

fascinating trip.

And as usual, when I go on these trips, I like to share my experiences with all of you

so that we feel connected with the broader Ummah, to understand that al-hambulillah, Islam is alive

and thriving and flourishing around the world

and to benefit from their experiences and they can be inshallah as well.

Japan, as you're all aware, is actually a very interesting country.

It is an island country with a unique and fascinating culture and history.

And it is a separate series of islands and therefore it has its own civilization, its own language.

It is a unique language. It's not related to any other major language in the world.

And it is its own religion as well.

The Japanese people are disconnected from the mainland and they

have been there for tens of thousands of years and therefore they have developed a separate culture,

ideology, identity and even religion. And this makes it even more interesting. Japan has many unique things of them is that it is the, they are the only emperor kingdom to this day.

There's no other emperor kingdom.

And their emperor dynasty, it is the oldest dynasty in human history.

It goes back 1,500 years, like almost at the time of the process.

I'm the same family has been there for that long.

And just a brief interlude here that the religion of Japan is a very interesting religion.

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