 Assalamu alaikum MCC Mashallah this this community is second tired of me they hear me every day here So we have all these giants that are here let them to speak Really? No Imam Zaid said to go saw who's gonna say no to Imam Zaid is six feet four Mashallah Rahman Rahim my mom Saraj Wahaj is Beloved to everybody I when I first start practicing Islam we used to go to MCA and he used to come to MCA I thought he actually lived down the street because every two weeks it was Imam Saraj Wahaj at MCA and Then I realized he's in the east coast and he really inspired many of us He's one of the giants of the umma and we have benefited greatly from him. I personally Met him early on in the 90s. I'm not gonna say when because you guys gonna figure out my age, too So I'll try to hide but he He was the first person to do a major event in 1999 in Madison Square Garden where He did the program called repairing America putting a law first and we flew from here a bunch of youngsters Went to New York and it was one of the most amazing Conferences it was sold out and thousands of people came from all around the world I remember the buses were coming from Philly and buses coming from DC and it was really an amazing scene to be part of and he's a he's an icon of the Muslims in America The man has done so much work that I don't think that a conference like this can do justice But just if I'm so happy that that these works are done for him We did another program for him. I'm Saraj Wahaj Chandani about 11 10 or 11 years ago where we raised some money with with Shea Khamsa and some of the speakers they came for his muscle program, but tonight is about Just appreciating the teachers and those who have benefited us because what our teachers? There is no student and there's no other teachers every teacher had a teacher and One thing that Imam Zayt said goes talk about Molana Rumi. I said you don't have to tell me because everything I talk Rumi comes in It's the fabric of my life But Molana Rumi was you know, he wouldn't be Rumi if he didn't have Shamsa Tabriz so he had a master that made him who he is one of the Contemporary poets said about Molana Rumi. He said each cast a speech a hot cheesy national no one became someone just out of themselves each ahan khangari cheesy national and no piece of steel Turned itself into a beautiful sword by itself He each Shogir the national to start a car each cannot a national to start a car No pastry maker maker became this master chef of pastry talk a shogir the shakar easy national until that master that we see now Didn't start at the feet of another master as a student Each more or not should mullah a room in no moulana. There was so many mullahs at the time of moulana There was so many of them But he said none of those moulanas became those mullahs became the moulana of Rome Talk to Amuri the Shamsa Tabriz in national until it didn't become a student at the feet of Shamsa Tabriz So all everybody has to have the teachers and we are benefiting and we are so blessed in this community To have such teachers and to be sitting at the feet of these teachers and to benefit from them And those who forget about their teachers They will be forgotten Those who forget about those people who like what they were talking about Earlier a lot of people they came to Islam through these people In most Raj Wahad in my mosaic shocker Sheikh Hamza use of all these the giants of our of the West but then sometimes we forget who they are and We think that we are something and that's the danger of having Little knowledge that you think you have a lot of knowledge one thing that Imam Fakhr al-Razi said he said a Hargiz deliman zail mahrum nasher and the Fakhr al-Razi obviously everybody knows him for his Arabic to see commentary of the Quran the masterpiece 12 volume But he did speak Persian fluent and he has writing in Persian and he wrote many poems, but this poem he wrote it He said it When he was 72 years old and it's the last year of his life He said I would never deprive from learning knowledge from seeking knowledge Come on the asrar ke ma'lum nasher to a degree that very few of the mysteries Remained that wasn't unveiled to me in other words. I exhausted knowledge I learned it to every science. I mastered it Have thought of this all that's khandam Shabroos. He said I studied the sacred knowledge For 72 years in the daytime and in the nighttime. I didn't waste any of my time. I studied 72 years full time Ma'lum showed ke heech ma'lum nasher and then I realized that I didn't know anything That's the humility of a person like Imam Fakhr al-Razi. I Realized that I didn't know anything and the more you know the reality is the less You know because you would see how much there is to know The humility is one of the things that Imam Saraj Wahaj his humility is amazing And if you look at his pictures all the time he has a pocket right here, what about six or seven pins? Always he always has those pins because he's always taking notes and I've been in gatherings where if somebody said something He just wrote it down Just a humble human being a beautiful human being and just for people who have seen him What an honor to see that man if you have been in his presence to be giving him a hug and kisses His hand what a blessing and for us to know him it's a blessing an amazing man a man of God a man of humility and May Allah protect him and his family in this trial time inshallah, and we want to thank all our scholars in Shuqh, especially Mamzit for putting this program together and Making sure that we actually honor our Shuqh and our scholars May Allah bless all of you inshallah time for Wudu as Siddi Ahsan said does not all of us go to the bathroom at the same time Maybe there's a few bathroom. They can talk about people who need to make Wudu for a guest Salah, Allah, wa ta'ala, Rasih, Muhammad, and my family, and Sahabah, Jameen, and Rahmat-ul-Qiyyah, and Rahmat-ul-Rahmeen