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As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi t-ta'alaamrakatuh

and Ramadan wa barak to all of you.

I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce what I plan on doing this Ramadan.

After quite a few years of studying the Qur'an as to the best of my ability

and I'm still very much a student of the Qur'an, I've come to certain conclusions

that I think scholars, much more qualified than myself, have talked about in many places,

but I see a disconnect between what is talked about in scholarly circles

and what is known among the average Muslims.

And one of those things is the role of Ibrahim A.S. in understanding Islam itself.

So there are stories of prophets, A.S, that are really important, all of them play a significant role,

but actually you have to know the placement of something and the actual role that it plays,

the significance of it and the connection between other parts.

So the stories of the prophets in the Qur'an are actually the vast majority of them are deeply

connected to each other. They're part of a larger narrative. They're like pieces of a puzzle.

And Ibrahim A.S. is a very fundamental piece of that puzzle.

I would even argue that understanding the the sera of our messenger and the mission of our

messenger, so Allahu A.S. is next to impossible. The overall objective of the life of our

messenger, so I said, is nearly impossible to understand without understanding the connection

that mission has to Ibrahim A.S.. It's not just understanding that connection though.

When you and I understand that connection, our view of what Ibrahim A.S. saw the world as.

He had a world view, right? And that world view was lost for thousands of years.

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