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Today insha'Allah this is something light and different insha'Allah

and this is in prompt too so if I make some mistakes apologize to the viewers online

you can correct me historically. It's a bit of a history as you all know

I have some passions and academics one of them is history and I wanted to I guess

bring up a topic I was reading about recently and that is a very important

chapter in the history of Islam in America here in America.

Who is the first DAI the first preacher that came to this country to preach

Islam? Most likely nobody would know his name.

You know his name? What is his name?

His name is Sati Majid. Sati Majid. Sati Muhammad Majid.

And he came to this land in 1904. This is from our best knowledge that we have

the first person who came specifically to give Da'wa Islamic Da'wa to the people of North America

and even though his name is long forgotten even many you know Muslims involved in activism

are not aware of this person and also because documents are so difficult to find of that era

and there was no internet there was no social media it's very difficult to piece together so it's

been one of my passions to read about these types of things and because I feel myself basically

following in that line like I need this is the first domino we are now you know some of his

groundwork that he has done and he was what we'll get there so he's very important to study this

understandably right the first person to come and preach mainstream Islam who was this person

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