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www Muslim Central.com forward slash donate. I was in a university I went to a

convention when I was in college on a Muslim Students Association convention and I

did not know any Arabic at the time, right?

And we went to the Fajr prayer

and this brother, I still remember his name, Brother Slave.

I still, I don't know where he is and who he is still.

But I remember he led the prayer and he recited, I didn't know much Quran at all, and he was an Iraqi fellow, and he recited Suratkaf. I didn't know it's Surikaf at the time. I didn't even read Quran properly at the time and he recited sootkaf and I remember

Crying my heart out in fajder not knowing what he's saying.

And it's not even like social crying,

like the guy next to me is crying,

so I'm like, okay, I'll cry too.

No, no, no, no, it's, the word of Allah was just,

it was doing something to me because of the beautiful magnanimous way in which he was reciting the Ayyat.

And I had to find out, and then I, there was a big crowd, I couldn't find him.

So I had to, do you know what sura he was reciting?

Like, I needed to know what is it that he was reciting. And that got me reading the translation of sulet kaff, and it got me curious about reading translations to begin with

like I was already heading towards Islam but like the real Quran curiosity one of the pivotal

moments in my memory is actually listening to

powerful recitation of the Quran. So I don't think we should undermine the

power of this, the power of just the sound of the Quran echoing in the world.

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