I want to tell you just a little about
the background that I came from. I'm not
a doctor. I'm not an Arab. I'm not a
lawyer. I'm a
slave. And that's why I took the name
Abdullah, the slave to
Allah. I actually came from um from a
line of preachers and teachers. It went
back to a man by the name of William
David Chappelle. He was actually a slave
who was brought and sold. I was the
first Muslim in my family. But
today there are 25 Muslims in my family.
Nobody in my family learned or rather
accepted Islam from my
hands. But in my
absence, they were reading books and
they were learning Islam. And so what
I'll tell you is that my brother
David, he was the second person to
accept Islam in my family. The next
person in my family who accepted Islam
was um my mother. The next person who
accepted Islam, I think was was my
sister. The next person who accepted
Islam in my family
was my father. He died the same year. He
gave him janazi Islamia. The other
people in my family were impressed. My
grandmother said, "I want my funeral
exactly the same like his." And she died
a couple of years after my daddy. But
before she died, she accepted Islam.
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