You know when I was little my mom used to say that when I was three years old I used to walk around the whole compound my dad was a imam in the Maschit and I was macheala this I'm talking about the early 70s the mid-70s in shawlah somebody here actually knew my date of birth suhannala. There's a boy here and he just says,

I was born on the same day as you.

And he was right.

Wow, Subhala.

Mashahala. Well Wow, sohala, my shala, well done,

Hamdala, shall you be better than I am, you know.

But my mother used to say, or my mother told me that when you were a little, three years old you used to go

go around walking the whole compound anyone you say

is a salam ala lakum

until one of her friends came home to complain

your son little boy walking all around a compound, getting a

Sala Mala, he's forcing us to greet back and so on.

My mother says, it's okay, tolerate him.

My Shala.

That was me.

And I think to myself, I wonder why I used to do that. Probably was just impressed.

Sala Malaikam.

We can imagine a little boy walking around, my shawlah Allah.

So I, when I looked at that aunt,

may Allah, Subhana Tala give a good life, she's still alive.

I wanted to tell her, instead of going to my mother

and telling her, oh so cute.

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