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So tonight insha'Allah ta'ala, which will be our last session before Ramadan, for the first,

we have a very special way of beginning, but in the name of Allah ta'ala. So some of you may have

seen Hector. He's been coming to the Masjid now for the last few weeks, right? For weeks,

seven weeks, seven weeks, almost two months at Hamdulillah, I mean. So he's been sitting here

attending the first. He's been attending the prayers and insha'Allah ta'ala tonight. He's going to

go ahead and take his Shahada with us. So I'm going to ask Hector to come up insha'Allah.

He's not nervous at all. Not at all. You ready? Yes. So seven weeks. So you memorize the

whole Quran, right? Oh, no. All right. So I want you to repeat after me. I'll go very slow.

Say Ash-shadu. Ash-shadu. I'm going to hold the mic up. Ash-shadu. Ash-shadu.

Allah. Allah. Allah. Allah. Allah. Allah. Allah. What? What? Ash-shadu. Ash-shadu.

Allah. Allah. Muhammadan. Rasul. Rasul Allah. Allah. I bear witness. I bear witness that there's

only one God. There is only one God. And that Muhammad is his final messenger. This is

final messenger. It's like beer. That's it. Welcome to the community. Finally.

Before you go, can you talk about what kind of drew you? You've been here for seven weeks.

It's very interesting. I see that the prayer has been attending the classes. What kind of drew

you to this place? Well, it's kind of funny. Up until seven weeks, I would, I didn't know anything

about Islam. I didn't grow up around Muslims. I didn't know a Muslim. I had never attended a

mosque. The idea of Islam and a Muslim was just extinct to my idea. I knew very nothing about it.

Originally, it was just to find a mosque and get a Quran because I had at first thought the

idea of purchasing one online, but what better reliable source than getting one from a mosque?

Right. So I came on a Friday. I got out of work at a decent time. And I was like, why not?

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