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Reece Byfield

Ustadh Reece Byfield (Ibrāhīm al-Shafiʻī), British Islamic teacher and public speaker, Cambridge-educated philosopher and ex-Sikh convert to Islam.

Oct 29, 2026

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2:41
And how was your life in regards to faith? What were you believing in?
2:45
I did obviously attend religious events in a church, such as marriages and things like that.
2:50
You know, even as a child, the idea of a man being God, it was something that I couldn't accept.
2:56
Also in the Gurdwara, which is the Sikh holy place, the Sikh temple, I attended things like that.
3:03
I kind of saw, even at a young age I kind of saw the founder of Sikhism Guru Nanak to be more of a social reformer than a person who had received some form of divine revelation There is a certain degree of racism that you experience at that time period The English people, they don't see me as English And the Asian people, they don't see me as Asian.
3:22
So you're kind of stuck in a weird place.
3:25
Just one year before, the 9-11 attacks happened in America.
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7:35
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