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You know, one chapter which I just quickly wanted to go into was Chapter 8, Crisis of Knowledge.

And Chapter 8, Crisis of Knowledge is somewhat important to me at the moment.

Mainly because we do live in very difficult times.

So, pan Allah, two days ago, Sheikh Muhammad Ali Ashab, one, you know, hema Allah, passed away.

We live especially in times where many great scholars are passing away.

And there's one point which you make in Chapter 8 on page 64 where you say that we are currently facing a crisis of Islamic knowledge in the West.

I am very optimistic that the next generation will be much better than the elders in working for community development and fostering harmony with the wider society.

What I am concerned about is that, Islamically speaking, we are nowhere near the level of scholarship required that will allow us to thrive.

And this is really the point which I wanted to speak to you about today, Sheikh Tuh, is even before the seminar, you know, the amount of people that contacted myself, even now saying,

oh, how can you promote Sheikh Yasidd Qadi, he is trying to reform Islam, he is trying to change Islam.

You know, we live in times where the internet and especially because of globalization, it has given everyone a voice.

So now, for those who are listening today, you know, we have 1,360 people, 1,300 people who are watching live and for those who will obviously tune in later on because of the time differences,

what would you say to them in terms of who should we seek knowledge from, how do we seek knowledge, but more importantly, who should we listen to, especially when taking a knowledge, especially in the world that we live where information is just being thrown at us left, right, centre.

So this is a very important question and yet obviously difficult to answer.

We seek knowledge from those who are people of Ahle Zikr, the problem comes that every single Muslim has an entire variety.

You know, you're calling me from England, there's a famous ice cream company here called Baskin Robbins.

And, you know, they famously advertise, you know, they have Mashallah, you know, 30 plus favourite flavours, you know.

So we have not 30 plus, we have 300 plus flavours of the scholarly community.

So the average person, when he walks into the ice cream shop and he doesn't know which one he'll have to taste a few and then choose which one he likes, right.

The religion is far more important and far more complex.

How does the average Muslim, how is he going to choose the Sheikh or the Adam that, you know, he is going to listen to and take knowledge from because in the end of the day, there's so much variety out there.

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