am kazmi who is a political and legal analyst who helps run the left legal fighting for legal defense fund which focuses on assisting anti-racist anti-fascist and anti-zionist individuals and groups who need legal support. salam alaikum to you both inshallah we start here with yourself sheikh hanif and uh you of course as we mentioned in the introduction there have studied at the uh islamic seminary so perhaps your best uh suited to tell us uh exactly what is this concept or this notion of mahtawiya for our audience? um bismillahirrahmanirrahim salam alaikum so nice to be here, um, well mahdawiya uh, first and foremost is very common theme in um, all of the major religions in the world, you know, and i'm talking not only in the within the abrahamic traditions, but also the non abrahamic traditions, okay, like hinduism, uh, and buddhism, for example, just... mentioned two of the most important ones, um, all of them um uh talk about first of all, the idea of humanity devolving, you know, not evolving, not progressing, but regressing, you know, so uh, when that state of disorder and chao