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So tonight, dear brothers and sisters, we go into the story of a Sahabi

who, Subhanallah, it's very hard to condense the story because there's so much history

that comes through this one companion of the Prophet ﷺ.

And the way I want to set the stage for you is like Abdullah Abbas,

the Allahu ta'ala, when he describes coming across this man,

Salman al-Fatiha, the Allahu ta'ala, the Allahu ta'ala.

If an Abbas, the Allahu ta'ala, of course, was a young man

and we will one day unpack his biography

in full inshaAllah ta'ala soon.

He was a young man when he finally got to be with the Prophet ﷺ,

between the age of 10 and 13.

So you have to kind of see the world through his eyes, he comes into Medina

and he's seeing this new reality that he's only heard about in Mecca,

about his cousin was Subhanallah ﷺ and he wants to soak it all up.

And there is a very peculiar person that walks around Medina

with such stature, with such hayba.

You know, people are in such awe of him.

He goes inside the house of the Prophet ﷺ frequently.

When people see him, there's a clear distinction that this man has

and he's a Persian.

And the Persians and the Arabs had a cultural dislike for each other.

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