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I just came back from a trip to Bosnia.

This was my first trip to Bosnia.

It's been long overdue.

And to be honest, even though I thought I knew a good amount of detail about Bosnia,

subhallah, the trip really was an eye-opener for me.

And one day, in the new future, I'll talk about the lessons I learned from that trip.

I met many of the survivors of the massacre in Srebrenica as well.

I met some of the imam, some of the leaders of the, you know, resistance movement.

But one name that continued to keep on coming up, and that name will form our lecture for today,

was somebody that was greatly admired by every single person that I met. And that was the

former president of Bosnia, and that is Aliah Ali Izit Begovich and this is a

name that I believe we should all be more familiar with the hero the legend the

philosopher warrior king I was thinking is there anybody in the last hundred years that is of a similar caliber?

And I could not think of anybody in the last hundred years.

Yes, before that, yes.

But in our generation, post-World War II, I cannot think of any person that comes close

to a genuine leader and commander in multiple disciplines

who garnered so much respect amongst the Ummah and amongst his people

and left such a deep legacy.

Everybody was in awe of him and one or two people even teared up when they mentioned his name to me.

And that really is a sign of respect and iqlas and

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