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I want to welcome you all to this

al-Dohla. It's been a very long time

since we've had our weekly classes.

And so tonight, inshall that we embark on one of those journeys.

I told myself that the next class that I would do

would be an eight week or a 10 week,

but this one's probably gonna be about three years.

So, I'm shall brace yourselves,

and I hope that we are all consistent. And it's really a, I want to frame the

want to frame the series in this first class that we have tonight

in shawlata and framing it in different ways.

Framing it because if we only study history to admire people, then

we're never going to be a part of making history ourselves. And if we see

Ahadith of the Prophet Salalah al-Ari-Wislam where he talks about these amazing distinguished

human beings on the day of judgment and we don't aspire to be amongst them, then we're not

reading those Ahadith properly.

And so what is this idea of the firsts,

and this idea of Sabihon forerunners,

which is only one category of first?

So what we're going to do, in sha-latara,

throughout the next couple of years, least I would say is we're going to take different

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