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Assalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh

Alhamdulillah, we praise Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala

Who knows what the hearts conceal

And what the tongues will not reveal

They want to whom all shall appeal

And in front of whom the believers kneel

Brothers and sisters, history is something that the majority of us find

Boring and difficult to memorize

And yet it is in knowledge of history

That we have the best weapons and tools

To take on the Zionist, narrative and the myth

So I was thinking for a long time how can I summarize in these 25-30 minutes

The key features that I want all of us to know about the history of Palestine

And of the creation of the illegitimate state of Israel

Because in the end of the day this is a history that the majority of us are not aware of

And yet when you read it, when you study it

Any neutral observer cannot help but be astonished at the blatant arrogance

At the trampling of human rights, at the insensitivities of the global superpowers

You don't have to be a Muslim to see the injustices of what has happened in Palestine

So I was thinking how best to summarize history for our audience

And what I decided to do in Shah-a'ala is to tackle it not from dry facts

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