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I am so excited to be standing in the basement of the Oxford Centre of Islamic Studies in the beautiful city of Oxford, the historic city of Oxford, England, and I have Sheikh Apefi with me, and he is one of the great senior Adam of our times in the English language, originally from Malaysia, but being based here in the Oxford Centre and the Oxford Centre and also the University of Oxford for many, many years of Hamd al-Ala, he is giving us a tour of the private collection,

he is accessible to the public except with some special permission, and we have here the entire library of the famous Al-Alamah Sheikh Abdel Faddah Abu Ghuddah, he is one of the greatest Adam of our times, he passed away ten, ten, fifteen years ago.

And of course, I mean, he was a very prolific author who wrote such amazing books, gems, jewels, every book that he wrote, it is literally like an encyclopedia summarized into an accessible book for the Lema.

And Subhadallah, he, his entire library, has been donated by his what-up, his heriters to the Oxford Centre, so we are going to take a look at some of it, we still have the original, his handwriting for example, by the way, isn't this so cool, look at this, look at this, this massive shelf is going to be automatically moved and allows us access, and take a look at the collection, take a look at how many, at least seven or eight of these are shown, look at this.

So let's take a look at this, for example, so this is the, I'm just like, you know, picking this up, so this, we find over here is his famous book in Turkish, you know, Safa Hadman, Subhadallah, one of his most famous books that he wrote, and if you just open it up, it's so interesting.

Yani, he was reading this on a flight between Istanbul and Jeddah on 11 September 1981, this is his boarding pass, Subhadallah, it's still over here with his notes on it, Allah Allah.

So this is, you know, when a person gives, that was dangerous, I dropped this, when a person gives the original library, you actually find these tidbits and snippets, unless people drop them on the floor, when inshallah is protected.

And the original books that he would use are still over here, so if you open it up, you will find, you know, this is his numbering on the sides over here, if you take a look at it, this is his numbering on the side over here, this is his handwriting on the side over here, you find over here, that he himself would take time to write down, you will find benefits at the back of, you know, many of these books and volumes, and now Subhadallah, you know, the Sheikh has moved on to the next life, which we still have access to, his actual library and the notes that he has in there.

And so this is just one of the things, one of the benefits of our ulema is that even when they have moved on, Subhadallah, their personal collections, tens of thousands of books, they have been preserved and the notes that they have in them.

And this is the reality of many ulema when they pass on that their books and their heritage is still left and preserved, we ask Allah Subhadallah to bless.

And to give him, to give him a pleasant agenda for those, and also we ask Allah Subhadallah to bless this center, it's an amazing center,

it's doing a lot of good work, insha Allah, do another video about another aspect of the university,

JazakAllah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon you.