Lessons from the life of Sh. Muhammad Al-Shareef

My Experiences with Sh.Muhammad Alshareef

How we first met: In the summer of 2000 I went to the annual ICNA convention which was in Baltimore, Maryland, that year. While shopping in the bazar I was looking for what I could spend my final $2 on. I came across this booth for a school I had never heard before: "Dar-Us-Salam" and they had these tapes playing of this khatib that not only had a powerful khutbah but had some of the best recitation that I had ever heard in my life! It was none other than the khutbahs of Sh. Muhammad. I purchased one tape: "The dangers of the tongue". When I later went to Madinah that year I used to listen to it at night as I would fall asleep. There was just something soothing about the recitation. It wasn't actually till 2005 when I came back for my summer break to Montreal that I actually got to meet him in person. Ali Merali, one of my closest friends that I've known since elementary school, had told me Sh. Muhammad was giving khutbah at McGill. I made my way there and as the khutbah is starting I see this guy with gelled hair, a half sleeved italian dress shirt, and chino pants, and I assumed that Sh. Muhammad wasn't able to make it. I felt was very disappointed. Only a few minutes into the khutbah and that amazing recitation comes out and fire alarms went off in my head: "OMG THAT'S HIM!". That weekend I went onto attend my first AlMaghrib seminar "Code of the scholars: Usool Al-Fiqh 101" It was such a difficult class to teach but he made it an amazing experience, al hamdulillah. Two years later I ended up joining AlMaghrib myself, and as they say the rest is just history 🙂

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