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Asaam al-Iekum Muhlah!

I'm going to talk to you a little bit about why I encourage each and every one of you to draw out your own family tree.

Now I know a lot of you're going to be wondering what what has this got to do with with anything well

firstly I mean the channel that I'm going to be doing now the YQ gem

series it's not necessarily going to be just Islamic stuff in advanced fichra three

the issues it'll just be miscellaneous, heart to heart, whatever I want to do.

Secondly, I actually think this is a part of our tradition and religion.

There are a thought of the Sahaba that they encouraged us to know their lineage our lineages our

prophet, so Allah al-A. He was said that we would take advantage of the knowledge of

a Wachr.

When it came to Dawa, when it came to knowing the past of the Qaurish and the tribes and he would walk with

him when he would go for giving the Awa amongst the groups of Minna because Abbakar Sadiq

Radh Allahhuan he knew each and every tribe in their lineage and he was he was called

the Nesab of the Arab that he knows the Nesseb or the lineage better than

anybody else. However, today's talk is not going to be Islamic per se, even though there are elements of Islam in it.

So I want to tell you a little bit about my own history in this regard, that I had zero interest growing up about my extended family, typically as most children when they go visit their extended cousins and what not I would be not even wanting to go just you know crying and what not I have no I don't know the I'm never going to meet them again in my life and some of them I haven't met you know that is the reality

But to parlah as you grow older and you know you began to realize that hey these are people that were related to us by blood once upon a time you know our ancestors were the same and my own journey began rather interestingly enough when I was a student in Medina so the years that I was there obviously when you're in Medina people come to you for Hajj for Humbra and you know

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