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Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu

Alhamdulillah, we begin by praising Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala, the one and the unique.

He it is whom we worship and it is his aid that we seek.

He hears the dua of the oppressed and he answers the prayer of the weak.

As to what follows, a hundred years from now in Shah Allah, when the history of Islam

and American Muslims is recorded and documented in multi-volume details, our guests to my right

will have not won multiple chapters in Shah Allah, dedicated to the seminal efforts that he

has played over the course of his entire lifetime and over the course of this entire country

in planting the seed for so many masajid and so many Islamic schools and so many fundraisers

and so many national conventions.

Well, Allah He to give a summary of his life and times is an insult to the man sitting to my right.

And I feel that it is a bridge and window into the past to have a living legend like Imam

Syaraj still in our midst, somebody who has been preaching and teaching from the Mimbar

since before I was born. His first sermon, even if it was with the nation of Islam,

as he'll talk about his story, his first sermon was in 1970, that is way before I was born.

And throughout all of these years, he has traveled across country, fundraised for countless

masajid that are now multi-million dollar mega complexes and done so at a time in a place in an

era way before our internet and social media. And yet alhamdulillah still strong and going

and still here for yet another event and fundraiser. And before I move on, I do need to plug

in our sponsors and our fundraiser for this event. It is Basma organization and the Basma

organization is one of the premier, if not the premier organizations, for taking care of the Rohingya

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