A day with Don Daniyal

Back in 2008, I visited Egypt with a group of Malaysians led by an Ustaz who was a graduate of Al Azhar University. Naturally he would engage students to take us around. We were there for 10 days, so we managed to cover several places. Some of the guides worked with us for a few days.  On the day we travelled to Iskandariah (Alexandria or Alex for short), we had a new face to lead our entourage. His name was Don Daniyal. Yes, the famous Ustaz Don! Of course, he was still a student then. But he already had a reputation as an excellent and popular student.

And soon we got to see why he was much endeared by many. He was gentle, polite and funny. Our group loved him instantly. We started out from Cairo early in the morning and returned quite late at night, so we spent close to 18 hours with him. But that was the only day we had him as our guide.

Ustaz Don storied us in the bus on route to Alex

Usta Don in front of Masjid Nabi Danial, Alex

MashaAllah! I am not surprised he has his own show on Astro and is a very popular speaker in the ceramah circuit.  My friends, nephews and nieces adore him. He's a brilliant guy, but I don't really care for his style of dakwah. S why do I bother to blog about him?

So that you all know........ I knew him FIRST!!!

I lucked out because I still keep this video below showing a snippet of him telling us about the history of Alexandria.