Shaun King – tours the very first mosque ever built in the world – Masjid Quba in Madinah

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			assalamu alaikum so good to see you all
		

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			i'm in the holy city of medina the
		

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			city of our prophet peace be upon him
		

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			the city loved him he loved this place
		

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			and i am somewhere so so beautiful it
		

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			has actually been really difficult for me to
		

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			film here in medina because right now it's
		

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			an american holiday for those of you from
		

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			all around the world it's an american holiday
		

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			we call thanksgiving and so there are i
		

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			think hundreds of thousands of american muslims here
		

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			and everywhere i go it's beautiful hamdulillah people
		

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			stop me and say you know give their
		

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			salams but it's been almost impossible for me
		

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			to film but i've snuck away from my
		

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			group for a moment to show you something
		

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			really beautiful and really special i am at
		

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			the very first masjid for those of you
		

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			who may be watching who aren't muslims uh
		

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			before i was a muslim i wasn't so
		

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			familiar with this word masjid it's a mosque
		

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			which i know you you're more familiar with
		

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			that word this is the very first mosque
		

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			and our dear prophet muhammad peace be upon
		

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			him they lived in mecca and he had
		

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			formed just a sweet beautiful community of muslims
		

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			allah had revealed to him deep truths but
		

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			they were so badly oppressed in the city
		

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			of mecca that they were near death they
		

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			had been beaten battered harassed and many muslims
		

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			had already been killed in mecca and so
		

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			they had to flee here to the beautiful
		

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			city of medina i cannot tell you it
		

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			is the the prayer of my heart inshallah
		

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			that each of you will get a chance
		

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			to come here as an american it's we
		

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			are so privileged um that the average american
		

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			a lower income american has higher income than
		

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			most people of the world and so we're
		

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			able to save up and make these kinds
		

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			of trips because i'm well known people helped
		

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			to sponsor this trip for me and so
		

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			i i am here and it is my
		

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			prayer that you someday can find your way
		

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			here what i'm about to show you is
		

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			so beautiful but it's the spirit of this
		

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			place and i'll tell you all about it
		

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			this is cuba okay let me show you
		

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			hold on one second if i can uh
		

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			flip my camera ah there we go now
		

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			the place is magnificent uh it's just a
		

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			gorgeous gorgeous masjid and there are beautiful gardens
		

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			and palm trees here and our prophet peace
		

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			be upon him while i'm showing you something
		

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			beautiful of course it did not look like
		

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			this when they fled mecca to come to
		

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			medina we're kind of on the outskirts of
		

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			medina now about two and a half miles
		

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			away and they stopped here first and our
		

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			prophet muhammad peace be upon him formed the
		

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			very first masjid masjid kuba now let me
		

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			tell you there is some debate over whether
		

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			or not the first masjid was actually formed
		

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			in ethiopia um there is debate among some
		

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			scholars i think the prevailing sentiment is that
		

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			masjid kuba is the first masjid formed by
		

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			our prophet muhammad peace be upon him and
		

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			um he said and i want you to
		

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			hear this because i'm showing you something just
		

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			magnificent he said this is a place of
		

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			piety these are a devout people and so
		

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			while the masjid itself is gorgeous today in
		

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			2024 what's special about this place is not
		

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			the building and the building is wonderful today
		

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			but this is known as a place of
		

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			pious people of devout muslims and i want
		

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			to show you around i'm going to take
		

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			you very quickly inside the masjid uh i
		

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			maybe stop because we're part of a wonderful
		

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			tour group here and um but let me
		

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			show you inside okay i uh let me
		

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			see here we are again um there's so
		

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			much there's so much in medina that i
		

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			want to tell you about um that i
		

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			want to show you i think what i'm
		

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			going to do it's about nine o'clock
		

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			at night right now i think i'm going
		

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			to sneak out very late tonight and put
		

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			on a hat and try to have a
		

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			disguise so i can show you around because
		

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			there's some beautiful things i i have to
		

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			show you in medina okay and uh hold
		

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			on one second salam alaikum good so i'm
		

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			going to show people just a quick uh
		

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			inside and i'll hurry back out okay so
		

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			uh sheikh omar is uh leading our tour
		

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			and uh i'm going to show you the
		

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			inside of the masjid um there are wonderful
		

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			palm trees here but uh have you ever
		

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			been to a place and you're like it
		

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			feels different here medina is that this masjid
		

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			is that like have you ever gone to
		

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			a place and be like i don't feel
		

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			safe here something's something's off you know you
		

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			can go to a place and it gives
		

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			you a feeling uh this place uh it
		

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			has a beautiful feeling i just took my
		

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			shoes off and uh putting my shoes in
		

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			e87 salam alaikum how are you brother good
		

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			good to see you one second just filming
		

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			a video real quick yeah good to see
		

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			you and um just going to show you
		

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			the inside of the masjid okay uh i
		

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			won't be long because people are praying but
		

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			our our prophet muhammad peace be upon him
		

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			said that praying two rakats inside of masjid
		

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			kuba is like doing umrah okay it's an
		

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			acceptable umrah this is how special and blessed
		

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			this place is so let me show you
		

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			the inside okay first you
		

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			can't smell what i smell but it smells
		

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			beautiful and wonderful in here and um i'm
		

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			going to be quiet and just show you
		

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			around because people are praying and i don't
		

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			like to talk when people are praying okay
		

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			i'm going to try to show you the
		

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			ceiling but this camera doesn't always do the
		

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			ceiling so well let me see uh yes
		

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			um this place behind
		

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			me is actually outside you can't tell but
		

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			there's a just a net for the ceiling
		

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			here and there's inside here but uh i
		

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			have to go uh our tour group uh
		

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			we have a couple places we're going tonight
		

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			but uh inshallah i'll be able to show
		

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			you some more i uh have a lot
		

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			that i i want to teach you you
		

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			know i'm a historian by training and so
		

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			you know my my first love is kind
		

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			of teaching little history lessons of a place
		

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			um but let me let me say something
		

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			to you i'm so happy as a muslim
		

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			salaam alaikum how are you brother yeah good
		

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			to see you i'm just you're you're on
		

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			a video now so you're going to be
		

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			on my youtube channel good to see you
		

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			yeah salam alaikum sorry for my left hand
		

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			yes you all are about to be on
		

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			my youtube now yes uh i'm just teaching
		

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			a little bit of the history of domestic
		

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			uber real quick yeah what are your names
		

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			where are you from oh you're from houston
		

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			are you part of our tour group or
		

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			uh no no where's your t-shirt uh
		

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			we're mainly mainly from texas as well uh
		

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			with uh sheikh omar sulaiman yeah from valley
		

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			ranch called but the tour group is even
		

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			bigger than that it's uh some people from
		

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			all around the country so uh no it's
		

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			called halal tours i saw i saw the
		

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			i saw the that group as well uh
		

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			back at the hotel no it's you know
		

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			i'm not so familiar uh you know i
		

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			had to tell people as a as a
		

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			new muslim i'm not i don't know my
		

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			way around all the groups yet so but
		

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			it's good to see you all yeah take
		

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			care salaam alaikum yeah take care brothers of
		

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			course of course here let me stop this
		

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			okay