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This panel of death is always around us every single few days somebody passes away.

Two days ago we gave a chat and talk about death because of the death of one of our community

members and a few hours ago a very near and dear friend of mine and a Sheikh and a Dahi we got

the news that he just passed away suddenly without any medical history and that is our dear friend

and Sheikh Muhammad Sharif, a lot of him with the founder of a Merib Institute. He was at the prime,

he was my age and just literally out of nowhere just collapsed and that's it and he's Genesis tomorrow.

So I wanted to I'm still to be honest I'm still in shock so I apologize if my words aren't coming

out fully formed but I wanted to just share some memories that I had of him and also the

impact that he left because I really believe and I think history is going to show that his

impact and his legacy will be felt for many many generations.

Ustad Muhammad Sharif was accepted to the University of Medina one year before me and him and me were

of the first batches of born and raised Western Muslims. Before us in the 70s the Medina

University was founded in the 60s is relatively recent. No Westerners went in the 60s. In the 70s a

number of converts heard of it and they went to alhamdulillah many of them are famous now you know

Dr. Bilal Phillips and Dr. a number of famous you know people of that era have come but generally

speaking born and raised Muslims here didn't go they didn't the the the fad or the the the custom

of going and studying overseas wasn't common. For Allah blessed me 1994 I applied to the

University of Medina and when I got accepted there Muhammad Sharif was one year senior to me

so he was ahead of me by one year and he was the first Arab American Arab Canadian to graduate I

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