 I was completely oblivious to the fact that Muslims were not supposed to date. I just thought we're a religious community. I know that we have to practice abstinence, but what's wrong with dating? I'm hanging out going, you know, I just knew that we had to practice abstinence. So I would actually take my girlfriend to the message with me for a juma. Just wait right here, I'm coming right back, right? Sitting in the lobby of the message, right, just in the veranda, just wait right here, right? I would introduce my girlfriend to brothers. So I'm like, this is to honey, my girlfriend, man, you know. And brothers would be like very uncomfortable, but I think they would just be shocked like, is he crazy or you know that? And I was really just completely oblivious, you know. And one day I was in the mall and there was a brother at his kiosk. And previously I had gone by his kiosk and introduced him to my girlfriend. And I asked him what he was reading. And he said, I'm reading a book on el amro bil ma'arouf on nahyu anin munkar. I'm reading a book on enjoining good and forbidding evil. First off, I had never heard the word enjoined before. I don't think, you know, there are certain English words that as soon as you hear them, you know the person is Muslim. I've never heard a non-Muslim English speaker say enjoined. I've never heard that before. I'm just enjoining samariko. I've never, you know, at least I'm reading a book on enjoining the good and forbidding evil. And I said, what does that mean? He said, well, if someone is doing something wrong, you should encourage them to do right. I said, like, give me an example. I said, give me an example. He said, like, if there was a young brother that was spending time with a young lady in a way that I thought was potentially detrimental for his spiritual development, this book is offering lessons about how I should approach that brother. And I said, well, how would you approach him? How would you approach him, right? And he said, well, you know, it's not a one size fits all, you know, kind of thing. I mean, the main message of the book is that I should think very carefully before I approach him. And then he moved to the next topic. And that was all that he said. And I sat there thinking, hmm, I wonder if there's something wrong with what I'm doing. And so I inquired of people and they told me, yes, this relationship that you have is completely inappropriate. And just to be Muslim, I called my girlfriend the same night and told her, we can't keep doing this. You wanna get married? She said, if you're 16 years old, you live with your mother. Of course, when I get married. Okay, I just thought I would throw that out there. Because that's what brothers told me, you know, that we would have to be married. And that was just the end of that. Never talked to her again. Never seen her after that. Just to practice Islam.