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Bismillahi r-Rahmanir Rahim

Assalamu alaikum, r-Rahim alaikum, r-Rahim wa r-Rahim

And alhamdulillah, wa salatu wa salamu ala Rasulillahu ala ala ala ala ala ala

He wa sahbihi wa women wa la amma bad

So this is a very interesting unique first time

this type of podcast, which I'll call a part of my library chats. I'd like to welcome Basel Gohar,

aka Abu Huraira. Assalamualaikum.

Explain to our viewers what's going on. Well, we're going to we're going to get to that,

inshaAllah. Today's talk and topic is really meant for anybody who was active in the

live for the last 15 years in Da'wa. It's not one of those advanced ones. It's a very frank and

it's a very awkward discussion about a time frame that we faced, I faced some of our biggest

challenges living in America and talking about the that you had this groups that were springing up

and having a different ideology than us. And long story short, our brother Basel is somebody that

I've known for literally 16, 17 years now, some panel of time flies. And he was one of our main

students and I've talked to him, I think, more than 10 classes or so. One of our core and

earliest students in Hamdulillah. And unfortunately, around 10 years ago, some slight tensions began

between the two of us over these issues. And I think we can even see we had a bit of a falling

out or a bit of attention for a while. And then we reconnected together and started talking about

our difficulties. And in Hamdulillah, we're on the same wavelength now. But I thought it would be

very, very useful for not just the two of us, not just for the sake of posterity and memories about

that difficult time frame, but most importantly, so that we can all learn from our own past and

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