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So now I come and I'm Islam to have to

welcome back to the prayers of the pious.

So the figure that we're going to talk about today, unlike many of the figures that we're covering in this series, is an incredibly complex character.

And this is an era where the hero is not always a hero and the villain's not always a

villain especially if you watch Black Panther you know exactly what I'm

talking about but this is an interesting character his name is Abdul Abdulmala Ki-Barwan,

Radi al-A-Lah al-Anhu Rahimah Allah. And Abdul-Malekibil-Marwan was a Khalifa

who undoubtedly accomplished many great things in Islamic history,

but he also has a lot of blotches on his record, right?

And so a lot of times you're looking at these complex characters

and you don't want to completely deny their achievements,

but at the same time, you cannot shut your eyes to some of the

flaws of these characters. And he was someone that was very self-aware of his flaws and who recognized the complexity of a situation.

So he has this duah, this supplication that he makes at the end of his life

that I actually envied him for him being able to make that supplication for the beauty of those words that he makes at the end of his life.

He says, Yarab, oh my lord, in the nahubi Ah Rima, my sins are enormous.

What in a kaleila affuika a-thamu Minha, but a little of your forgiveness is greater than all of those sins.

Allah, Hmahm, habeikalil,

a fukha, a ode im of the nubi.

Oh, Allah, so erase with a little bit of your forgiveness,

the enormity of my sins. It's really interesting

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