Abdullah Oduro – Gardens of the Righteous Imam
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The speakers discuss their "we" in various ways, including their own name, where they come from, and their personal backgrounds. They provide personal and professional information, including their current job, address, and work history. They also discuss their current job and personal life, including their current position at a VA hospital and their son's education. They provide plans to rent a space and play basketball, and discuss their past experiences in various roles. They end with a reminder to attend the next meeting for more information.
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That we may not have seen or new
members in the community. As you know, we
go around and we introduce ourselves with 3
things,
our name, where we come from, and how
long
we have been in our name, where we
come from,
4 things, where we came from, what we
do, and how long we've been in Coppell,
how long we lived in this area, InshaAllah.
If it's Dallas, if it's Coppell, InshaAllah,
just please, let us know InshaAllah,
As, you know, within the community,
we see each
at least majority of the week. It's important
that we know each other's name and that
we at least have a general idea of
what we do. And as I mentioned to
you all every single time when we did
this, there was one time my brother
recognized another brother, and he realized that that
brother was his mentor almost 20 years ago
in their country.
So you never know. Subhanallah. So
we will start from the right side.
No. No. I was gonna let the young
it's hot.
You're
gonna be our runner, man.
Make it snappy.
Let's start with you. What's your name?
Just grab your mic and say your name.
It's Haak. Okay. What grade are you in?
4th. What do you do for a living?
Okay. Good. Great job. That's fine. Okay. No.
Pastor, you're gonna pass it to everyone.
All of the best. He's gonna say, you're
gonna get the mic. Give it to the
next give it to the next one. You
got a job to do tonight, my brother.
How you doing? My name is, Jamal.
I'm an electrician.
Live in Lewisville. I've been here about 15
years.
Okay. Where'd you reach it come from? Michigan.
Where in Michigan?
Flint? We're we're in Rapids, Lansing.
Lansing? Yeah. Okay. Okay. Lansing, Michigan. Okay. You
like the weather here better? Oh, yeah.
Welcome, welcome.
My name is Ahmed I am new here.
I just moved from, I'm trying to move
from Wichita, Kansas.
Okay. Alhamdulillah. I've gone to school to Michigan,
so this is my brother here. That's my
brother here. That's why I did my my
master's there,
my undergrad.
In what?
Biochemistry.
Your undergrad was in your master's in what?
Biochemistry.
Oh, biochemistry. I thought you said Michigan again.
Yeah.
Exactly.
I've also been an imam and an Af.
As right now, I was imam in Mashita.
Do you Do you have family here? I'm
trying to bring them here, so I'm house
hunting.
Assalamu alaikum. My name is Shahid Al Haq.
I've been living here for
16 years in Capel, came from, Florida.
You work in telecom centric sector
and, what is the other thing? That's it.
Yeah. Okay. Sounds like it.
Assalamu alaikum. My name is Muhammad Kazafi,
and I moved from Valley Ranch in 2021.
So I've worked with Citigroup as a UNIX
system admin.
My name is Sahub Baralikhan. People used to
call me as Jafar. I moved to Copel
by 2021, moved from Connecticut. It's been 10
years in Connecticut. Where where can I have
been? Windsor. Windsor. Okay. Yeah. Close. I was
in New Haven. Yeah. Close to Hartford.
So,
I work in IT for M Power 401
k Company.
Assalamualaikum.
My name is Shahid Aziz. I live in
Kabul for about 10 years and
I'm a retired employee of PepsiCo,
and enjoy my time now.
Yeah. Assalamu Alaikum. My name is Adnan Saifi,
and I'm from the telecom background.
And I'm living in Copel from last two
and a half year. I directly moved from
India.
Yeah.
My name is Javed Malik. I'm from New
Jersey.
So I'm here for 3 months and go
back again for next month. You go back
next month? Yes.
My name is Waseem Ahmed.
I came from India,
in 2017,
in to Irving
and then moved to Copel in 2020. I
am a telecom engineer, so
yes, I
stay here.
It's like my my name is Sam Ross.
I teach at Texas Christian University,
And, I've been in Valley Ranch area for
2 years and could talk for 2 years.
From where?
We were Did you come from where you
came to Dallas? In Connecticut.
Yeah.
Assalamu alaikum. My name is Mohammed Abdul Muxed.
I came to US 4 years back, and
I've been living in Coppell since past 10
months.
I'm an electrical engineer,
and I design substations for work.
Assalamu alaikum.
My name is Sadiq. I've been in Copel
since 2005.
Yeah.
Yeah. So
I I'm a senior architect. I work for
USCIS.
Assalamu alaikum.
I'm, doctor Mansoor Ali. I
am a primary care internal medicine physician.
My office is right across the street.
I moved here
2021.
Grew up in New York City,
but I'm also a veteran so I was
in the army for 7 years.
And,
yeah. Here I am.
Assalamu
alaikum. My name is Asan Alam.
I work as a software engineer and I'm
here, in Coppell last 2 years. And before
that, I was in Valley Ranch for almost
15 years.
What you're aware? Valley Ranch. Oh, Valley Ranch.
15 years. Wow. Before
that, where were you?
Before Valley Ranch. No. I, when I moved
in the USA from beginning, I was in
Valley Ranch. You moved to the USA from
where? Oh, from Bangladesh. Bangladesh.
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Abdullah Abdulrahman,
moved
to back to Texas last year, Alhamdulillah.
Came from California,
and prior to that
while I was in Texas, after I came
from the UK,
and then moved to Texas and then California
and then now back to Texas. The UK?
Yeah. That's I went to school there. But
I'm originally from Nigeria, so I
finished my high school and then went to
the UK and studied and then No accent.
Which one? UK. No accent. Like a like
a British accent kind of thing. You know
what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, okay. There
we go. Here we go. Here we go.
There we go. There we go. So I'm
a
profession's
engineer so I'm I work in the oil
field. The fields that I support are in
Wyoming. So, I'm delighted right now and then.
I'm out of a very nice place, alhamdulillah,
Wyoming. So,
you've been doing jiu jitsu for, what, 20
years?
No. 20 years. Yeah. 20 years jiu jitsu?
No. So he works with the youth, masha'Allah
here.
The the the since Ramadan started,
after 8 Raqqats, we get the men, the
young boys over there at the karate school.
I'm sorry. Is it karate school? Okay. So
we rent it out. Is it after 8
Is it
after 8 rakats? I'm sorry. Ramadan is when
we started it. We instituted it. So after
the 8 rakats of Tarawit,
the boys, you know, they're all restless in
the back. So we get them to the
Korah school, but we're thinking of doing it
year round, Inshallah,
to have Oh, great. Yeah.
And, yeah, she's benefiting me while it's it's
like nighttime, you know, or whatever time, actually.
You're doing something. But is it happening ongoing
right now? No.
No. Inshallah, we're playing too. We have plans
too.
We have something for the summer camp. Yes.
We have a summer camp coming. Yes. Exactly.
Just stay tuned, Inshallah.
You're on the WhatsApp group. Correct? Okay.
Assalamu alaikum. My name is Mubasher
Hassan. Good thing we're learning not to which
brother not to mess
with. So I've been in, Copel since 2021.
I've been in Dallas,
since 2,000
10. I was in Florida for, like, 80
years. Florida? Fort Lauderdale. Fort Lauderdale. Okay. Yeah.
So I did my bachelor's from there in
computer software engineering,
and I'm working here as a tech lead
in Southwest Airlines.
So where is your origin? Where did you
come from? Pakistan. Pakistan. For Florida.
Okay.
My name is Mario,
and
I play basketball.
What grade are you in? 4th grade.
That's his twin brother next to him. Yeah?
It's Hawk.
How many minutes were you born before? Who's
born first?
Me. How many minutes?
One minute.
One minute.
60 seconds. She wanted to finish. Masha'allah.
Mister.
Hello? My name is Hamza.
I'm in 9th grade, and I play back.
What school you got to? I got a
Harmony. It's a charter school.
What position?
Point guard and shooting guard.
It's hot. You're not on your job, brother.
You're not on your job. You're supposed to
get that mic. You're all over.
Assalamu alaikum.
My name is Khaled Mohammed.
I came from New Jersey in 2017.
I'm a residential architecture designer.
And,
what else?
How long are you okay. So from 2,000
2017,
you'll be in Capel. Yes. I'm sorry?
Originally, I'm from Egypt. What's the difference between
your marketing from designer and architect?
Mostly, you know, architect is a licensed architect.
A designer is mostly into design more than
architect involving to
the process from design.
You call it the CD design development and
the CD, the construction development and all the
way to the
I'm limited into just the residential area.
So my name is Imran Rao, and I
came from Pakistan
in 1994 to Chicago. Chicago. So I finished
my residency in internal medicine in Chicago, then
I moved to
close to Abilene, Texas. I was there for
my favorite job for 5 years, then I
moved to Oklahoma City,
then I moved to Lawton, Oklahoma.
Then in 2008, I moved to.
And 2015,
I moved to.
So I worked for a VA hospital as
a primary care internal medicine doctor. Primary internal
medicine. And and he is my son. You
know him. My son. Yes.
My name is Ryan. I've been in Capel
pretty much my entire life, 18 years.
Just finished school at Indiana University,
majoring in finance and analytics.
Future master and accountant, Inshallah.
And brother Saldhik is his father?
Assalamu
alaikum.
My name's Harun. I'm 13, and I'm in
7th
grade. I play basketball.
I play center.
Who's your name? Harun.
Harun.
What school do you go to?
HEB, Mashid Guidance Academy.
So he's in full time takfiets for him.
InshaAllah.
InshaAllah. I think it's
I think it's very important that we do
this every now and then. You know, every
couple of months, new community members come. And
it's only right there when we see each
other
it's only right when we see each other,
we're seeing each other.
And now I'm almost sure when when we're
done, you're gonna say, bro, I didn't know
you were this. I didn't know you were
that. I didn't know you were from the
same city or from the same city. This
is the goal of community, allah. This is
the goal. This is how we open the
doors and yeah.
Oh, this happens every time, doesn't it?
It happens every time.
Now, I'm your brother in Islam, Abdulah Oduro.
I'm originally from Ghana, West Africa,
but I was born in Arlington, Texas and
raised in Houston, Texas.
And, I embraced Islam around 19 96.
And then from there, I went to make
Hajj in 1997
98.
And then from that, you know, I got
lost in Mina
during, I'll never forget. And that's when I
said I'm gonna go learn Arabic. Came back
and I learned Arabic with an Nigerian sheikh
in in Houston. There's a masjid
called Masjid Mumineen. And there's a sheikh Abdul
Rahman. He studied in Sudan and in Egypt.
So he studied Arabic from there and then
got accepted to the University of
Medina.
I did the language program for 3 years,
1,007 from the College of Sharia. And
then I came in 2007 from the College
of Sharia.
And then I came back here in
2009,
roughly.
2000 and 9. No. No. To Houston. Houston.
And then I stayed in Houston from 2,009
till 2,015.
And then I came here in 2015.
I worked at Bayana. So I was, like,
a.
So I taught the the Arabic. I taught
all the Bayana curriculum, but I was also
like a kinda like
a bigger brother for the students there.
And then from there, that's when around 2,000
and 17, I think I came here,
2017, 2018.
And that's why I was at Bayonne, and
I was also here.
Now, currently, I'm doing residence. I do,
I help in research at Yakin Institute
and also working at the Masjid here and
then have a male excellence program.
Yes.
You can ask him.
You
you can?
Which which girda would do you do you
would you like
Worsch.
Worsch.
Had to be in a West African, I
said Worsch. He said Worsch.
Inshallah.
So you've seen your next Ramadan. Start our
week.
So
so I hope after this, inshallah, you'll be
able to meet meet one another inshallah. And
this is just a start in the beginning
for us to get to know one another
as a community for that's one of the
Islamic objectives behind salatul jamaah. Definitely. Definitely. Show
me. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reward all
of you for your attendance and receive 27
blessings for your attending inshallah
and make this a means of increasing and
strengthening the brotherhood inshallah.
Quick quick question also.