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It is he alone that we worship and it is his blessings that we seek

is the Lord of the oppressed and the one who answers the call of the week.

Ahmad al-Az bin Allah has been a long while since I've given a library chat.

So I thought in inshallah today, let me just do something that I would just recently looking up for

another lecture that I was giving elsewhere and just in inshallah to add a benefit

to a group of people that are interested in this topic.

Now before I begin, I always like to make a disclaimer.

The library chat that I do, some of them are generic and for an open audience

and some of them are really meant for those that have some background.

And unfortunately, I do not have any way to sift through those who have the background or those

who don't. I try my best to give library chats that will be beneficial sometimes to specific

niches and sometimes to general audiences. When I do to specific niches, I put this disclaimer

out here, not every single lecture is beneficial to every single person.

And so this is a lecture that I would hope that anybody who's listening to it has a

background information in the basics of Islamic theology and the basics of Islamic history,

has some knowledge about the various books that are out there in Islamic history.

And inshallah then based upon that this lecture will be of benefit.

If you do not have any such knowledge, this lecture is not really meant to boost your

iman or to increase your spirituality. I'll have lots of lectures online that you can listen

for that type of stuff. So I do need to give this disclaimer.

And to be honest, I wish somehow that I had a platform other than YouTube that I could sift

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