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Asa la la K

to al-Dilah he waheda was so la,

to what's a la,

mala nabe-ba-a-a-ma-ba.

Al-Lhamdilah,

al-Lhamdilah, brothers and sisters,

we are very, very fortunate and blessed to have with us our esteemed

speaker and our Shek and our mentor and on a personal note inshall a friend of mine I hope in shadlith

feeling is mutual shakana our dear

shech echre dr hattim al-haj and of course dr hattim does not need an

introduction but still and it is our fault and our duty ekraman al-Lahu just a brief summary that our Sheikh Hatim is one of the very few people

who has combined between an MD, a professional doctorate being a full doctor and then of course a PhD in Islamic studies as well the real doctor I always joke that my mother introduces me and when somebody says doctor she goes this is not the real doctor

us the doctor is usly doctor right and he is also PhD in fich al kakaran in comparative fich. So welcome,

Shekhan al-Kareim to our extensive podcast today.

Allahiks, Fyaz, Zakalahairan, for the invitation.

Hamdulah, and of course, Shahatim is of course very involved in the American Muslim Juris Association Amja

and well known his classes is Darus, his publications, his Fich.

Now I want to explain why we are doing this podcast which is of course something relatively new and it is our first

inshall and perhaps in a longer series and that is that especially during the last few years post-Arab Spring, there were a lot of debates going on online with regards to Islam, Islamic politics, the role of the Ullama, and these were very contested issues and emotions were high and sentiments were given in a very, very blunt manner.

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