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We'd like to move on to our second presenter and his doctor, Imam Sheikh Havid Yasir Khaddi.

I've known Sheikh Yasir for a long time, sometimes like shifts passing in the night.

I was leaving New Haven and he was coming in to his PhD at Yale University.

But despite that and other near misses, we've been able to stay in touch over there for decades.

He's always been someone who has never shyed away from doing the unpopular thing, nor the uncomfortable thing.

And that takes a lot of courage.

So we commend him for that. If he'd like to add anything biographically, he's a very studious, scholarly person.

If Ashir didn't show up, we could have asked Sheikh Yasir to recite the Qur'an. He's also a Khaddi and half-up amongst many other accolades, titles and accomplishments.

Preserve him for this community and Imam Magic used it for four minutes of his time to you, Sheikh Yasir.

We began by praising Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, the one and the unique.

It is he alone that we worship and it is his blessings that we seek.

He is the Lord of the oppressed and he answers the call of the weak.

I don't really have any biographical information to add. I am Al Abdel Muthinib al Fakhir.

I am somebody whom Allah has blessed to conceal his sins from the eyes of the people.

And so because of that, they have assumed about me things that I'm not worthy of.

And so I ask Allah to forgive me for their assumptions and to keep all of us straight and guided and to protect our sins and faults.

And it's a big honor for me to be amongst such giants and luminaries.

I believe that I'm the youngest speaker and this shows the personal learn that you have in me.

I don't qualify to be amongst people that are senior to me in Alman, Wisdom and age.

Because I keep on saying that actual knowledge isn't just book knowledge, it's also wisdom.

And wisdom is not something you learn from reading.

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