Sheikh assim al hakeem biography of william

He was raised there until the age of 12 before he and his family moved to the Western Province of Saudi Arabia, to the city of Jeddah. He used to be an Imam in Jeddah before but since this is a kind of job that requires dedication and devotion, time does not permit him to be a full-time Imam now, so he only delivers the Friday Sermon.

Now, times have changed for him dramatically and drastically because, he says, as we grow up, we have so many obligations that we have to fulfill that we wish that there were 48 hours in a day instead of just We feel that time is always a problem for us. When we are young, the only thing we think about is playing and enjoying ourselves, i.

This is all what the youth think about; just wasting time, playing cards, going around the streets, riding bikes, watching movies, listening to music, and doing anything to fill up their time. And usually, the Shaitan drives people to do something and waste their time in something that is not useful. So, this has changed for the Sheikh, as an individual, drastically.

And he thinks that it is the same thing with all the youth; it is an ongoing process. With regards to his university life, the Sheikh returned to the Eastern Province, after finishing his high school in , to attend one of the most prominent universities in Saudi Arabia, the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

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He says that this was a blessing and a curse at the same time. His English, at the time, was adequate. This helped him pass the level test, which allowed him to skip a whole year, which is the orientation year. And this, he feels, was a blessing as well as a curse because he was doing the freshman year while his friends were doing the orientation year.

This made him go easy and take his studies lightly. So he spent his time during this year at the university going to the beach, playing sports, etc. This was a fun time for him because while everybody was studying and working hard, all he was doing was sleeping and playing sports.