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His Family Chose America. He Chose Hijrah.
He was an IT Director at a $35 million company. Remote job, rising salary, the American Dream on paper. Then he walked into the CEO's office and quit, to move his family to Egypt and study Arabic. In this episode, Abu Ayub shares the full story: growing up in the States barely knowing his deen, finding Islam at 17 through a translation of the Quran during a snowstorm, the family who pushed back when he started practicing, and pushed back again when he made hijrah. He talks about selling everything, landing in Cairo with nothing but a mattress, watching his savings run out with a third child on the way, and how Allah replaced the job he left with something better. Seven years later, the same people who called him crazy tell him they wish they'd left 20 or 30 years ago. If you're a Muslim in the West asking.
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He was an IT Director at a $35 million company. Remote job, rising salary, the American Dream on paper. Then he walked into the CEO's office and quit, to move his family to Egypt and study Arabic. In this episode, Abu Ayub shares the full story: growing up in the States barely knowing his deen, finding Islam at 17 through a translation of the Quran during a snowstorm, the family who pushed back when he started practicing, and pushed back again when he made hijrah. He talks about selling everything, landing in Cairo with nothing but a mattress, watching his savings run out with a third child on the way, and how Allah replaced the job he left with something better. Seven years later, the same people who called him crazy tell him they wish they'd left 20 or 30 years ago. If you're a Muslim in the West asking.
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