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Asaam al-Lachman al-Iber kowt.

Dear brothers and sisters, welcome back to people of Quran.

Every night I share with you a story about how one of our pious predecessors interacted with an Aye of the Quran.

So I know I kind of left you guys on a cliffhanger last time.

If you're wondering what happened to the young man.

Alham that he was freed by his scholarly mother who we still don't know, who recognized

something beautiful about the book of Allah Subhana-Wah al-A.

Now today we're actually going to talk about a

recognized scholar and someone that also was very literate in the Quran that was able to use it

to really bring a sense of glory to this uma and a sense of pride to this uma.

The man that we're going to talk about today,

his name is al-Qabli Abu-Bakir-Bakhilani, Rahimah Allah, from Baghdad, the great judge of Baghdad in Iraq.

And literally what I'm about to share with you is from the year 1000. And the year 1,000 al-Qalani was invited

to a debate and you know he was invited to basically you know to meet with the Byzantine's and to meet with some of the Roman

monks and the priests and to debate with them about Islam versus Christianity.

And, to pam Allah, the emperor recognized that, you know,

Al-Qal-I-Lkali, this isn't a man that's going to come in and bow,

because it was known that the Muslims, they don't bow.

And he realized that, you know, if he comes in and he doesn't bow,

then that's going to give the rest of the people in the kingdom

an opportunity or an opening to say,

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