Name: Sincerely, Osman Umarji
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Description: He’s a scholar who also plays basketball. Meet Dr. Osman Umarji. Did you ever wish you knew the scholars, preachers, and teachers of Islam better? Join our all-new talk show, every Wednesday, hosted by Sh. Ibrahim Hindy and Sh. Abdullah Oduro, to learn their stories, the challenges they face, and...

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Sincerely, Yours

 Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.  Jazakumullah khair for joining us for another episode of Sincerely Yours.  This is your host Ibrahim Hindi with my co-host Sheikh Abdullah Oduru.  Sheikh Abdullah, how are you doing?  Alhamdulillah. Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh everyone.  Thank you for joining us and being consistent with us.  May Allah reward you all inshaAllah.  I'm good man.  Mashallah I love that color of your thawb.  Appreciate it alhamdulillah.  What is it like a off blue or something?  Yeah, kind of like a off royal blue.  We don't want to be too royal.  We don't love the junior brother.  We got to keep it humble.  Mashallah, mashallah.  I like I feel like my whole life is a quest of like seeing people in like really nice thawbs  and being like where did you get that from?  I need to like find out to go there and get a nice thawb for myself.  When you go to Medina man, I'll tell you the tale.  I just go to the tailors man.  There's some tailors that we have.  So alhamdulillah.  Let me know inshaAllah.  I'm heading there soon biidnillah.  I will.  InshaAllah.  As always everyone, we're delighted to hear from all of you.  Please let us know inshaAllah where you're coming to us from, where you're watching from.  We want to interact with you.  We want to hear from you.  If you have questions during today's session, put it in the chat.  We want to hear from everyone inshaAllah.  One comment from brother Yahya says you guys are all on time today and he's laughing.  It's true. We are on time today.  JazakAllah khair.  I see brother Asmar from Nigeria.  As-salamu alaykum.  Sister Aisha from Somaliland.  She's different than Somalia.  People should know that.  As-salamu alaykum as well.  Let us know inshaAllah where everyone is coming from.  We want to hear from all of you.  Blue Man from Toronto.  InshaAllah Blue Man's with us I think every week.  I love seeing the usernames and I'm getting used to all the people who are joining us.  Blue Man.  Blue Man. I don't know if he's got the same self as you Sheikh.  I think he's calling himself Blue Man because of the Toronto, what team is it?  That's Blue?  Blue Jays.  Blue Jays.  Yeah, maybe.  There's no baseball anymore.  I don't know if you heard about that.  No, I'm not a baseball fan.  We have Sister Basi, first time watching from South Africa.  As-salamu alaykum.  MashaAllah. Ahlan, ahlan, ahlan.  MashaAllah. Welcome, welcome.  We have a lot of folks from Africa watching us.  I think because we've been bigging it up lately,  talking about all the countries in Africa we want to visit.  So our viewers are going up, alhamdulillah.  Well, we have a great show today, a great guest, alhamdulillah.  Someone who is familiar to both myself and Sheikh Abdullah.  Dr. Usman Umarji, inshaAllah, will be joining us.  He is the Director of Survey Research and Evaluation.  He has a Bachelor's of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Master's  and a PhD in Educational Psychology from UC Irvine.  He has studied Islam at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt.  Dr. Umarji is also an adjunct professor in the School of Education at UC Irvine.  As-salamu alaykum, Dr. Usman. How are you?  Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.  Alhamdulillah, doing phenomenal. Great to be with you both today.  And great to see you as well.  You know, every week I feel like I'm giving Sheikh Abdullah a bit of a hard time  because I live in Canada and it's really cold and he lives in Texas and he's got great weather.  But I think you have both of us beat today because you're coming from California.  Alhamdulillah. Yes, we're blessed with good weather.  So two Americans on the scene, brother. Watch what you say.  That's true. Past few weeks have been two Canadians against one American.  We flipped the tables a little bit.  Alhamdulillah.  Dr. Usman, you know, part of the point of these sessions,  these live sessions that we're holding is, you know,  to help introduce people to the people they're getting knowledge from.  And so I know a lot of people by tuning into Yaqeen,  by reading our papers, by consuming the infographics,  a lot of the work that they've been seeing has been work coming through either you personally  or your department within Yaqeen.  And so, you know, people want to get to know the person behind the information,  the content that they're consuming. Who is the person behind the khutbah?  Who's the person behind, you know, the paper that they're reading?  And so that's kind of the point of all of this is to, you know,  get to know our Masha'ikh better, to get to know our students of knowledge better,  and to build, inshallah, deeper and better connection.  So Sheikh, you know, tell us about your story.  How did you decide to start pursuing knowledge?  You know, when did you make that decision? And how did it go?  Bismillah. Oh man, it takes me back now 20 years,  no, actually more than that, about 22 years ago.  So I was raised a bit about myself. …

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