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I think it was very simple. I was born in the compound of a masjid, which means that's where my parents were living when I was born.

A compound of a masjid, my father was an Imam and he's a scholar in his own right.

He's done a lot of good work in Zimbabwe.

And it was a very simple hand to mouth sort of upbringing. I don't come from a wealthy background like we...

Alhamdulillah it's not like we, you know, we didn't have food in that.

But we were like limited budget family, sort of speak. And this was in the early stages.

I went to a government school which was obviously Zimbabwe being colonized by the British.

The schools were very British. And that's the reason why even the English that we speak in Zimbabwe is not too far off from British English.

Sometimes some of the Zimbabweans actually have better English than those here.

So Subhanallah it's just, it was simple. And I was always brought up in a religious home with the dean, with Salah, with Ibadah.

I never had a girlfriend in my life. I've never, never been to a cinema, never been to a nightclub, never touched a cigarette, never had, you know, drugs was something that was not even in the picture.

Interesting.

I've had a very, very clean upbringing in Alhamdulillah and I thank Allah for that. My life was mostly with the Quran, mostly with learning.

And I used to do both school secular as well as doing heif and then learning the books.

And at the same time I used to go to one of the Arab embassies when I was very, very young to learn Arabic.

So I learned it at the age of 45 and 6 Arabic language.

And all the embassies, staffs, kids used to learn there and I was put into there by my dad.

After that I completed heif and I was learning, I learnt a little bit of the other languages.

You know, I learnt Urdu, Gujarati, quite a few other languages. And then I progressed through primary school.

I was a top student, most of the time first, second or third in the class.

Allah Allah.

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