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Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

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, insha'Allah wa ta'ala, when the history of Islam and American Muslims

is recorded and documented in multi-volume details.

Our guest to my right will have not one multiple chapters insha'Allah wa ta'ala 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 massage it

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 member

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

massages 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

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