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Salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.

Hamdulillah, how are you guys doing in Ramadan so far?

Hamdulillah, you know I have a rule by the way.

You guys know this one I used to live here.

I don't travel in Ramadan, I always stay home.

I refuse all invitations, no matter where it is I want to stay home.

Somebody said to me but you're traveling to Memphis I said no I'm coming home.

So I have been broken my rule, Hamdulillah.

I looked at my emails about moving to Memphis a few weeks ago

and Subhanallah it was in March of 2010, 13 years ago from right now.

When the discussion began for me to seriously start thinking of moving here

and that same year we had our first fundraiser as well.

And in that fundraiser we broke I think national records everywhere.

Three four five million pledged, Al Hamdulillah.

By the way how many were in that fundraiser in Germantown?

Mashallah, Mashallah I can't see all the hands raised but I see at least 40-50 hands.

It's been 14 years since that event.

15-16 since the vision of MIC.

You all know the story I said this multiple times that the vision of MIC when I heard about it I wasn't

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