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So now we get to the second brief topic, and that is,

what are these radical changes that are impacting us? And what are the

areas that we as Muslims are having to grapple with in light of all of these changes? Because

we have a different set of changes. Not only are we grappling with the same changes, Catholics and

Protestants and religious, observant Jewish folks who are grappling with with we have our own unique set of challenges living in the West as well for Muslims living in the West all of these changes has come crashing onto our heads or to move more precise you guys have been born into the equivalent of tsunamis and tidal waves

and multiple whirlpools crashing all around you while your parents and your community expects

you to remain absolutely dry, right? It's not your fault. They are so many battles going on,

tidal waves coming, and these issues, it's not your fault. fault you weren't born you didn't choose to be

born in this era but this is allah's test on us that we have to deal with these changes of a

cataclysmic nature and so what are some of the areas that we are grappling with as a Muslim community

today I'm going to demarcate seven large areas

and this is not a comprehensive list,

but it is a template for where our class is heading.

It's gonna be a broad idea of some of the concepts

that we're gonna grapple with

throughout the rest of these series of classes.

So I'm going to begin with two that I call internal identity crises.

So the first two are internal crises, not necessarily dealing with external issues right now.

The first two are internal identity crises.

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