Ramadan Night 1 - MYC Program 2017

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[6:40]what the Lee I didn't know better [Music] among many aesthetic Afeni

[7:20]happy funding went and sent into the swampy inland lake while he

[7:31]was on door told me he only made everyone what I should

[7:43]do [Music] [Music] wha-wha-wha definitions aha [Music] [Music] here I don't either

[10:12]I believe it should and as I what I [Music] [Music] [Music]

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[12:40][Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Music] got any of the money a little

[13:37]rough material what the we are ladies your Nika a fun [Music]

[13:46][Laughter] [Music] [Music] I don't [Music] thunderous Jelani one for me let

[15:17]me borrow you Oh bad vision Monica [Music] what I love [Music]

[15:57]ah-dah-mah [Music] Oh No [Music] [Music] but can limited in the end

[16:49]it I'm Bonnie my dear [Music] one morning by day [Music] haha

[17:13][Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] well [Music] [Music] haha even the NIA [Music]

[19:34]ha ha [Music] me and you fire off wanna only shame veneer

[19:49]among us when I'm hunting a heart bigger Lord a what I

[19:58]need again what me [Music] anyway Finley's daunted [Music] what our selected

[20:48]are the hunter me one [Music] [Music] [Music] if I can climb

[21:35][Music] [Music] [Music] funny was I [Music] Monday we gotta bond again

[22:45]I can't even I think I swallowed and can hear and and

[22:49]I'm [Music] every 10 by 1 come on wife only belong and

[23:07]he can return me why you called it won't have a senior

[23:16]wanna me a marmot I would are getting up etomidate when I

[23:25]met me [Music] [Music] these are ones that move is Iran Sultana

[24:20]Monsieur Gaston a dong aya sofya a minute [Music] I love and

[24:54]get Tino I wonder what they charge a fee la mina da

[25:11]dee da ponte wolf on and he lost an ear a what

[25:19]the muzzle blimey argon and then do me on I mean he

[25:44]won the knee I'm [Music] [Music] nah nah nah nah nah [Music]

[27:22][Music] [Music] even in a sauna here once or nagano again I'm

[27:43]going on a long man the army I love my Nonna's koenkan

[27:56]and proper better he knows what I want to God [Music] what

[28:06]are you mad daddy naina what did let that let me know

[28:29]I'm again ready for us little by little I didn't get why

[29:03]are meeting me again ha ha ha mommy mom and me together

[29:13][Music] Swahili Nirvana will be guessing in my [Music] with no one

[29:41]other than our watching me my getting a team I don't wanna

[29:52]find me [Music] beyond this Sun to see my happy one is

[29:58]the money that is not what either one baby gonna harm one

[30:11]but and he's a miracle [Music] [Music] - nah nah I mean

[31:08]beyond blimey but I groove is not one in Belize where we

[31:20]are dining other nuns we have belied all in on Tanana the

[31:34]make they are come upon me our same harm anyone [Music] [Music]

[31:51]hasta la coneja Madeline commented on them down on the SWAT say

[33:29]Dada Marilyn Hamid can I have another Lancelot Madame de Sala Hamed

[33:42]while Ian Harmon your brother sisters Selam aleykum gonna have to lie

[33:50]on butter counter Ramadan Kareem and Sharla we having our annual shopping

[34:03]on program English and her big first weekend we will be having

[34:06]that define a person with us they're very hard to have in

[34:09]Java the second weekend will be having safe height above the lagoon

[34:14]and then the second two weeks will be having to share for

[34:16]seminar that now the toadsaga passing is easier but there's a dear

[34:19]brother of ours he's a scholar and he needs no introduction everyone

[34:23]please help me welcome dr.

[34:26]side of the stage - Allah Allah I met him while Ian

[34:29]Hamid we live in a shape on that I dream this with

[34:51]a mandala hain hum did it die her I'd better hide at

[34:56]me and handed it back ham did that I bet he had

[34:59]done that they had that canary nested yellow man Madonna ba la

[35:02]cuchara so that I've been added half a new UN Tacoma Jana

[35:06]only two more happy man contempt damage or boss salatu was-salam ala

[35:11]said you know Madonna habido colubrina a ceremonial and Mustafa dem jet

[35:22]at the COS of Muhammad Ali Bey GF Irina Biden and melpomene

[35:25]Allah Sobhan WA in Miami and mother Parvati maken bismillah ar-rahman ar-rahim

[35:32]well in Latin America when mother with the enema - when do

[35:40]forth moh agua in the LA Hiwassee on a team so look

[35:42]a lot are you darling my dear respected scholars my dear brothers

[35:48]and sisters assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh first I'd like to

[35:54]thank you and I'm very honored for the invitation to speak here

[35:57]for the next few nights this ayah that I recited occurs in

[36:02]selected bucket at chapter number 2 of the Quran and it's an

[36:06]interesting item because twice in surat al-baqara allah subhana wa tada confronts

[36:12]the perception among both Muslims and non-muslims about the geographic limitation of

[36:20]Islam meaning what meaning during the time of the early Muslims there

[36:26]were several incidents there were several situations where people essentially brought up

[36:34]the question about the geographic limitation of a stun and allah subhana

[36:39]wa da de and each instance responds by declaring the universality of

[36:43]the religion of islam so this ayah that i recited which is

[36:49]verse number 115 Allah subhana WA Ta'ala says what did not have

[36:53]much when motherhood and to Allah belongs the east and the west

[36:57]the feminine anima Johanna them away to Allah wherever you are in

[37:02]whichever direction you leave the face or the presence of allies is

[37:05]present in no waha hwacha on high beam most surely Allah is

[37:12]most expensive all knowledgeable this ayah was revealed in the early history

[37:18]of Islam upon the death of the Christian King of Abyssinia and

[37:23]nagashi remember eventually he converted to his son well when we had

[37:27]Christian king who converted to his son passed away the profits of

[37:32]a lot a way to ascend them performed slanted janazah for him

[37:36]other according to some reports and so the early Muslims said Dada

[37:42]stood Allah how could you perform this death prior how could you

[37:45]perform the Sinatra this Christian yeah obviously he wasn't a believer in

[37:49]Islam he prayed in a different direction Allah subhana WA Ta'ala responds

[37:55]to these early Muslims by saying when endowment mission of one monthly

[37:59]meaning to Allah belongs the east and the west the aina motto

[38:05]I knew but then mo edgewood law wherever you in whichever direction

[38:08]you look at is the ab is the base of Allah is

[38:13]the presence of Allah subhana WA Ta'ala the second ayah which also

[38:17]occurs in surah al-baqarah is verse number 142 and this ayah i

[38:22]think is more relevant to tonight's discussion here Allah subhana WA Ta'ala

[38:26]says menorah menorah hane say a foolish sofa hominin osmolal down and

[38:31]Ferb Latin America no Hidayah but lil I'm s Rockwell Madrid Yankee

[38:38]mania shangri-la Seraphim was stuck in this ayah was revealed upon the

[38:43]occasion of the changing of the prayer direction because remember in the

[38:47]early days the Muslims were praying towards the city of Jerusalem and

[38:50]foots which was the first good enough for the Muslims during one

[38:54]of the afternoon prayers probably sought to vote on a saw the

[39:00]Prophet receive a revelation from the angel Jibril Eve that changed the

[39:05]prior direction from Jerusalem to Mecca and this happened mid prayer so

[39:09]the Prophet in the middle of the salaat changes the direction from

[39:12]puts to Mecca and that's why if you go to Medina today

[39:16]there is a message it called measured ability nor the measure that

[39:20]the to cognize this is the only measure that exists in the

[39:24]world that has two prior directions or to Mecca labs anyway after

[39:28]the Muslims changed their prior direction towards Mecca the silly people say

[39:33]a quarter so Faja the silly people said my word I want

[39:37]to bleed him and let the kana I they have what has

[39:38]caused them to change their prior direction well in that in mushrik

[39:44]when motherhood Allah subhana WA Ta'ala tells the Prophet and the Muslims

[39:48]to say to Allah belongs the east and the west yet human

[39:51]is shahid asks about them was nothing I love this ayah for

[39:56]two reasons the first reason that I love this ayah is because

[39:58]here Allah subhana WA Ta'ala is talking about the universality if the

[40:02]submission towards the Almighty Islam meaning Allah doesn't limit the stand to

[40:08]the east he doesn't limit this them to the west but rather

[40:14]a logic on without is declaring the universality of the concept of

[40:18]the submission towards the Almighty Creator and I have messed up one

[40:21]motherhood Yankee many a Shia docile optimist nothing the second reason that

[40:28]I love this ayah is because it gives the Muslim a method

[40:31]for responding to people who attack the religion see Allah subhana WA

[40:38]Ta'ala says here said Buddha so Fahad the silly people will say

[40:41]what has caused them to change their direction Allah subhana WA Ta'ala

[40:45]challenges the Muslims don't just run away from the silly people don't

[40:50]just you know hide and and you know essentially isolate yourself in

[40:56]fear but we did not have much luck one muffin respond to

[41:00]them in a firm and educated madam now this ayah is really

[41:07]relevant modern times today because in America today I don't need to

[41:12]you know discuss this too much in America today we have a

[41:14]very similar situation where many people believe that Islam is the religion

[41:22]of the East it's not a religion of the of the country

[41:24]so oftentimes you'll hear of these situations where you have the Muslim

[41:28]band or people saying go back home but the reality is as

[41:33]Allah subhana WA Ta'ala tells us in that in the quran deny

[41:35]admission of one motherhood so allah belongs the east and the west

[41:41]and what I hope to do here tonight is essentially you know

[41:44]discuss the history of Islam in America because oftentimes in the modern

[41:49]situation I feel that we as Muslims are oftentimes on the defensive

[41:53]we're always reacting to the to the narrative that's being placed out

[41:57]there and we have nothing positive to replace that narrative way allah

[42:04]subhana wa ta'ala here saying when the sofa ha when the silly

[42:07]people say prosavana national demand public in malaysia galilea allows challenging the

[42:13]muslims come up with your own narrative a positive narrative an intellectual

[42:16]narrative that can counteract the negative propaganda and within this context I

[42:22]feel oftentimes that as Muslims in America we don't know our own

[42:26]story in this country and as such we are unable to really

[42:32]present a positive counter image oftentimes the images that we present our

[42:38]defensive their press releases where we say well the Muslims stand against

[42:42]terrorism but what what positive do we have to counteract that so

[42:47]what I hope to do here tonight is for the next 30

[42:51]to 40 minutes present a talk that I've given at various universities

[42:55]around the country where you know talking about the history of Islam

[43:02]in America and inshallah this will provide some fruit or some seeds

[43:07]that essentially enable us to understand better our position in this country

[43:11]especially with relation to this Iowa did now and measured up what

[43:14]Marvin if allah subhanho wa taala is saying that the religion of

[43:20]islam is universal can we in fact demonstrate that meaning well you

[43:24]know can we show that in the history of Islam in America

[43:26]so he had taught the title of tonight's talk as Muslims in

[43:33]America brief history from Columbus to Trump next slide please and be

[43:37]as so this slide here essentially demonstrates some of the our recent

[43:47]as statistics this was a report that was presented by the Council

[43:52]on american-islamic relations it's it's talking about the situation of Muslims in

[43:57]America this report was just released two weeks ago and the main

[44:02]message there you don't you don't need to focus on the numbers

[44:04]but I think many of you can appreciate the main takeaway of

[44:09]this slide that over the past three years both hate crimes and

[44:13]acts of discrimination against Muslims have increased you know exponentially I would

[44:18]say and the next slide will sort of you know the reason

[44:24]for this increase in acts of discrimination and hate crimes really have

[44:29]is because of this type of a narrative that's out there in

[44:35]the mainstream media and the types of books that are published so

[44:38]these are some of the recent New York Times bestsellers written by

[44:43]individuals like ayaan Hirsi Ali Brigitte Gabriel what was so fun and

[44:47]of course you know some of the recent ideas that were perpetuated

[44:55]during the recent election cycle now the problem with this type of

[45:00]line with these types of books that are titled like they must

[45:03]be stopped and infidel in the trouble with the Sun today as

[45:07]they present a you know Islam as they have foreign entity within

[45:14]the American landscape and within the American soil next slide please Maria

[45:18]and this is another picture this is an incident that recently took

[45:24]place in that New York I think oftentimes they say a picture

[45:26]is a thousand words I think this holds true for this picture

[45:28]as well New York a very liberal state specifically New York City

[45:35]here we had a the Muslim community over there you know presenting

[45:39]a request to build a message on the Hmong island and you

[45:46]can see the Muslim individual there the sister presenting her case and

[45:50]then you can see the reaction of the local Long Island non

[45:54]Muslim community so for pictures a thousand words I think this picture

[45:58]really conveys the essence of the situation that oftentimes Muslims feel that

[46:04]were confronted with today and it's unfortunate because the next slide please

[46:09]as you know a beautiful book by a rabbi over at Hebrew

[46:15]Union College in Los Angeles he's written a beautiful book on the

[46:19]concept of jihad in Astana and it's really interesting to see the

[46:25]Jewish or rabbinical perspective on this Islamic concept I think he does

[46:30]tremendous justice to the concept anyway in his book on on the

[46:33]concept of a jihad the Arab I Ruben Firestone goes on to

[46:38]say that Astana's perhaps the most misunderstood religion to the west and

[46:41]many stereotypes still endure clarity about its tenets and practices Western prejudice

[46:48]toward Islam is as old as Islam in itself now think about

[46:55]that so as long as Islam has been in existence according to

[46:58]the historical record there's always been this intrinsic bias against the religion

[47:03]of Astana and this is something that gets inherited generation after raishin

[47:09]it's become essentially distilled and concentrated towards what we have today and

[47:15]it's unfortunate because as the next slide I think makes the point

[47:18]this is a professor Gustav Nyberg over at Princeton University as a

[47:21]beautiful point where he says many Americans don't seem to recognize that

[47:26]our country in its individuals if not institutions has always been more

[47:32]religiously diverse than it appeared a trend that certainly continues today all

[47:37]this gets obscured when people speak wistfully of the United States as

[47:43]a Christian nation and I think you know I would add to

[47:46]Professor neighbors code here it's not just many Americans but I would

[47:49]say also many people who come here from outside of America would

[47:53]say you know many Muslims who have emigrated here will intrinsically believe

[47:58]that this is a Christian country in its essence but what I

[48:02]hope to demonstrate here tonight is that astana and the presence of

[48:06]Islam has made tremendous contributions from even the time before Columbus which

[48:11]brings me up to the first point so how many of you

[48:17]have heard about Christopher Columbus yeah everyone in here has heard of

[48:21]Christopher Columbus now how many of you have heard of a man

[48:25]named mahi or chang-ho okay we have to mashallah very good well

[48:34]the next slide this is chang-ho you as a Muslim Chinese seller

[48:39]his Islamic name was my Ma's the Chinese form of Muhammad so

[48:44]ma he has a very interesting story he was a young Muslim

[48:51]eunuch who was adopted by the Chinese emperor of the time during

[48:55]the Ming Dynasty and the Chinese emperor you know I developed a

[49:00]really strong relationship with that chang-ho and [Music] ended up relying on

[49:07]him so the Chinese emperor built this tremendous Navy the Chinese Navy

[49:11]is probably one of the greatest navies in the history of the

[49:14]world and he appointed cheng ho to become the commander of the

[49:22]Navy now why is this relevant well there's really very compelling evidence

[49:29]that Cheng ho at least 71 years before the arrival of Columbus

[49:32]and the new world in the quote new world obviously was occupied

[49:35]by other people before Columbus was here so it wasn't new to

[49:40]them but anyway to the Western Europeans who was it was the

[49:43]new world at least 71 years before the arrival of Columbus there's

[49:47]compelling evidence that Shengo and his Navy actually ended up landing on

[49:54]the west coast of the United States somewhere in California this was

[50:00]all written in a book which I cited in the bottom here

[50:03]14:21 the year that China discovered the world by a british historian

[50:09]named Gavin Menzies this is a tremendous book in New York Times

[50:12]bestseller us and just to give you the appreciation of the Chinese

[50:19]Navy that was led by this Muslim seller Cheng ho next slide

[50:27]please I don't know how how clear this picture is but what

[50:31]I want you to what I want to show you here is

[50:35]a picture of one of the Train ghost ships which is depicted

[50:41]in white contrasted with one of Columbus's ships the santa maria so

[50:46]you can notice that chang hos fleet of ships but the typical

[50:49]ship was at least three to four times larger than then you

[50:55]know Christopher Columbus's ships now you know Gavin Menzies goes on to

[50:59]say about some of the technological innovations that the Chinese sailors came

[51:05]up with that were really far advanced of the Western European has

[51:09]sailors so for example during Columbus's time many of the many of

[51:16]the people who sailed with Columbus would suffer from something called scurvy

[51:20]scurvy is a disease where you don't have enough fresh fruit you

[51:24]don't have enough vitamin C and the reason for that is because

[51:27]they wouldn't pack fresh fruit on the ships now interestingly the Chinese

[51:32]ships of chang-ho had a mechanism for desalinating or removing salt from

[51:37]the ocean water so on their ships they were able to grow

[51:42]fresh fruits and vegetables which enabled them to go long distances much

[51:48]longer distances than the average you know Western European ship another interesting

[51:52]point that Gavin Menzies mentions is actually in the next slide here

[51:58]the Chinese are ships of Shango the Muslim Cheng ho actually went

[52:05]all over the at least they went to India they went to

[52:09]the Arabian Peninsula they went to Africa and then from the other

[52:15]end they went to most likely the western coast of the United

[52:19]States in California so they went all over but Gavin Menzies makes

[52:22]a really interesting point this is unlike the Western European ships where

[52:27]the where the you know the we have explorers where whatever country

[52:33]they would go to they would kill the native population the Chinese

[52:37]ships would actually be very respectful of the local indigenous religions so

[52:42]chenko for example although he was a practicing Muslim he was very

[52:47]respectful of the native religions of the different countries the point being

[52:53]that it was a very different dynamic compared to the additional Western

[52:59]European ships Aloha and one final thing that I wanted to show

[53:09]here from trend hose ships you know one of the outputs of

[53:16]the of the shipping of chang-ho next slide please is arguably the

[53:21]first world map known in existence was drawn by a Turkish geographer

[53:28]cartographer named piri Reis so this piri Reis world map was really

[53:34]the outcome of the expeditions of chang-ho at least in 1513 this

[53:41]is the first time that we know of that the world map

[53:44]depicting all of the continents came to existence and this was really

[53:49]mechanism an output or outcome of Chang hoes expeditions where a lot

[53:55]of this information would filter back to different parts of the Chinese

[53:58]and the Asian you know continent and it would eventually make its

[54:05]way into Turkey so the point being here that the common narrative

[54:09]that you know the you know Western European explorers like Columbus and

[54:15]Magellan and and and others came to the west is actually problematic

[54:22]because we know in addition to chang-ho there were many other individuals

[54:26]that came here at least you know tens if not hundreds of

[54:30]years before Columbus now interestingly it wasn't just that you know the

[54:35]early expeditions but many of the early people who came to the

[54:38]American continent were forcibly taken out of their native homes and were

[54:44]Muslim by wardroom many of them came from a part of western

[54:50]Africa that was ruled by a Muslim Emperor at the time named

[54:53]Mensae Musa next a slightly and it was it was area of

[55:00]Africa called the Mali Empire this was an important part of the

[55:08]Muslim world at the time a lot of tremendous scholarship and and

[55:12]you know our schools and fir'aun's and scholars were studying here in

[55:17]this part of the world it was ruled by a man named

[55:22]Mensa Musa now the interesting thing here is that many of the

[55:25]slaves that came over to America many of the Africans that came

[55:30]over to America were actually from this part of the area of

[55:33]Africa so if you go to the next slide here it's estimated

[55:38]that 10 to 30 percent of America Africans brought to the Americas

[55:43]were from the sub-saharan region of the Mali Empire meaning they were

[55:48]Muslim in origin and you know these Muslims over time you know

[55:53]they participated in many of the seminal events of America's Founding so

[55:57]there's a scholar at the University of Florida who's doing an entire

[56:05]PhD dissertation on the contribution of the early African Muslims to America's

[56:09]history and what he's concluded is that African Muslims fought in the

[56:16]war of 1812 the civil war the American Revolution they've been here

[56:21]in presence since the country was since even before the country was

[56:24]a country and this is an important point that oftentimes gets overlooked

[56:28]that many of the earliest settlers in America were forcibly migrated here

[56:34]but they came from a predominantly Muslim area and in fact when

[56:39]they came here many of them still retained the practice of their

[56:44]religion so I'm going to give you in the next few slides

[56:46]some of these stories of these African Muslims who were forcibly taken

[56:51]out of their Muslim lands and brought here to America but despite

[56:57]that they were still able to practice their religion and essentially leave

[57:02]behind some of the important historical milestones with regard to the history

[57:07]of Islam in America one of these first individuals as a man

[57:11]next slide please a man named Esteban ago of as amor Esteban

[57:15]ago was a young Muslim from the Spanish you know region of

[57:22]Cordoba in Granada Esteban Tico translates into a little Stephen he was

[57:28]a Muslim of African origin what we call them more you know

[57:31]the Moors so Esteban Tico was was captured and sold into slavery

[57:40]and along with his Spanish European master they sailed across the Atlantic

[57:47]Ocean and they came and their ship essentially encountered a hurricane and

[57:53]it ended up being capsizing on in the island of Haiti modern-day

[58:00]Haiti so I Stefan ago left his slave master and went on

[58:03]a journey of his own this is an important journey because what

[58:06]Esteban Eco ended up doing is he ended up crossing the continental

[58:13]US so he's the first non-native American to cross the Mississippi River

[58:19]you know oftentimes in American history they tell you that Lewis and

[58:22]Clark are the first non-native Americans to cross the Mississippi River the

[58:27]reality is that there was a 'muslim named Esteban echo of a

[58:31]Zamorin this is all documented in a beautiful book called Esteban echo

[58:37]lock Explorer in Spanish Texas this Muslim individual named Esteban echo who

[58:41]essentially according to this book maintained the practice of his religion so

[58:46]he would pray you know along the journey he would encounter the

[58:52]Native Americans and he would try to engage them in diplomacy in

[58:55]fact if you go to Texas there's this entire dedicated to the

[58:59]life of Esteban ago as being the first a non-native American to

[59:05]cross the Mississippi River at least two three hundred years before Lewis

[59:09]and Clark next slide please now of course not many of the

[59:15]stories were that positive there were many you know heartbreaking stories of

[59:20]the early Muslims one of the early Muslims was this man named

[59:24]Abdul Rahman had been saury Abdul Rahman was a well known prince

[59:30]in western Africa so but somehow accidentally he got captured and sold

[59:33]into slavery and he was brought over into America now when he

[59:39]was brought over into America Abdul Rahman would repeatedly tell his slave

[59:43]masters listen you know I shouldn't be here I'm a prince you

[59:46]know my father's the king and the slave masters obviously wouldn't believe

[59:50]him because they probably you know heard the story regularly right like

[59:53]everyone's fighting to be a prince so anyway Abdul Rahman ibin story

[59:59]was held in captivity for a period of 30 years but after

[60:03]30 years eventually word got to the State Department in the United

[60:06]States at the time oh by the way you know we've accidentally

[60:10]captured this African Prince maybe we should free him so the president

[60:14]at the time a man named John Quincy Adams finds out about

[60:19]Abdul Rahman Oban story and grants him his freedom and he apologizes

[60:24]profusely Table Rock might have been story and he gives him parades

[60:27]in different cities in America so in Philadelphia in Boston in Washington

[60:31]DC as a tour of apology from the United States they apologize

[60:36]diabetic might have been sorry for capturing in and enslaving him for

[60:42]30 years and they give him a tours of victory so this

[60:44]is all captured in a beautiful book then Prince among slaves by

[60:48]a man named Terry Alford and I've put that the citation here

[60:52]in case you want to follow up on this now unfortunately not

[60:55]everyone's story ends on a happy ending like I've got might have

[61:02]been sorry next slide please yes so this man omar bin Saeed

[61:08]was a half of the Quran so he had memorized the entire

[61:11]Quran he was living in western Africa at the time but he

[61:16]was captured into slavery and sold them brought over into America unfortunately

[61:21]his slave master was a very vicious and and hard-hearted man he

[61:26]forcibly made all motive inside converting to Christianity so he would serve

[61:32]a motive inside pork he would make him attend the Christian as

[61:36]services but I'm going to bin Saeed was a learned man who

[61:42]had memorized the Quran and as a way to review the Quran

[61:43]with himself he would always whenever he had some money he would

[61:49]buy a pencil and some paper from back then remember pen and

[61:52]pen paper was very expensive and he would try to write down

[61:58]whatever quranic verses he could memorize whatever he had memorizes to keep

[62:02]his memory awake so the point being here that all might have

[62:05]been Sayid despite the tremendous pressure that he faced from his slave

[62:12]master still found a way to retain his Islamic practice and his

[62:15]Islamic knowledge and he's an important figure in the history of Islam

[62:18]in America because he's the first individual that we know of who

[62:24]put down the Quran in writing in the United States so if

[62:27]you go to the University of North Carolina you'll you'll see that

[62:30]they've preserved the manuscripts of all motive inside from the time that

[62:36]he was here back in the 1700s during the time of George

[62:39]Washington and Thomas Jefferson and they preserved the first handwritten Quran in

[62:44]the United States well as much of the Quran as he could

[62:47]write so here you could see this is selected Nasser this monadic

[62:51]man that I hematogenous will violate but and you can see that

[62:56]there's certain you know mistakes in the in his transcription of the

[63:00]surah because obviously over time would have you know he essentially starts

[63:04]misplace in different islands but the point here I think with Amara

[63:08]mensaje is despite you know we talked about Islamophobia today but imagine

[63:15]you know this is true Islamic phobia when the man was prevented

[63:19]from practicing his religion but despite these hardships he was still able

[63:23]to I retain the practice and essentially contribute something positive to the

[63:34]American experience Ottawa next slide please we can skip this slide yes

[63:40]so you know here we're in the month of ramadhan and obviously

[63:43]I wanted to tell you about the first if Bob that actually

[63:49]ever took place in the White House you know every year it's

[63:52]an annual tradition that the president invites Muslims to come and break

[63:56]if thought you know have a bar with him the question becomes

[64:03]when did this practice originate you know the historical record tells us

[64:07]that it originated during the time of Thomas Jefferson so during Thomas

[64:12]Jefferson's time there were some difficulties between the United States and the

[64:18]country of - of Tunis Tunisia the modern-day Tunisia they had some

[64:24]you know issues with regard to the Tunisian ships would capture the

[64:29]American ships and the American ships would capture the Tunisian ships so

[64:33]there were some you know national security issues between Tunisia and the

[64:39]United States so the Emperor of Tunisia at the time sent over

[64:42]a Tunisian delegation of Muslims led by this man named C D

[64:49]so lame on many many who came here in 1805 to essentially

[64:53]undergo diplomacy with the United States to try to figure out a

[64:59]resolution to these difficulties between Tunisia and between the United States and

[65:05]as part of good will Thomas Jefferson eNOS a Sulaiman many many

[65:09]came here during the month of Ramadan he stayed here for an

[65:12]entire month as one of the evenings of Ramadan as an act

[65:18]of goodwill as an act of good faith Thomas Jefferson invited say

[65:21]CDC laymen many many and his crew to come to the White

[65:27]House and and have a thought essentially at the time of sunset

[65:31]and this is according to the historical record the first incident where

[65:36]the American president invites the AMISOM delegation to have that thought next

[65:45]slide please now in terms of formal trade relations with a Muslim

[65:51]country or mine you know holds that record so a month has

[65:56]had our relations with the United States commercial relations since the time

[66:02]of a please so since the 1790s the sole fun of Amman

[66:05]had always been a who wanted to engage in good faith with

[66:11]the United States in terms of trading relationships and this came to

[66:15]a head formally in 1805 when they actually formalized the relationships between

[66:21]Oman and between the United States it was this Omani ship called

[66:26]the Sultana that came here arrived in Washington DC and you know

[66:31]entered into a formal trade agreement with the president at the time

[66:38]Martin Van Buren and what you're seeing here is a postage stamp

[66:41]from the country of Oman on the 200th anniversary of this trading

[66:45]partnership between Oman and between the United States so in terms of

[66:53]the first Muslim majority government that had a relationship with the United

[66:58]States that title belongs to a month but you know beyond commercial

[67:02]and beyond diplomatic relationships as thumb has had a more subtle impact

[67:08]on American society and this is really most obviously seen in the

[67:13]literature and in the writings of many of the prominent you know

[67:20]Americans in America and that's what the next section will be talking

[67:24]about next slide please so Franklin Benjamin Franklin is all of you

[67:28]know the men on the $100 bill was arguably one of the

[67:34]most intellectual and the most well-read of the founding fathers of America

[67:39]he was a particulars and of Persian poetry specifically of a man

[67:45]named sadhu side he is a well-known Persian poet so when one

[67:48]day he fell in love with one of sad these poems so

[67:53]much that he decided to take one of side these poems and

[67:57]go to different people within his circle and tell them that he's

[68:01]that discovered a new verse of the Bible essentially Franklin had done

[68:08]some excavation and he found the verse of the Bible that had

[68:12]completely been overlooked during the compilation of the Bible so Franklin was

[68:16]somewhat of a hero to the intellectual circles of the time so

[68:19]now Franklin you know you've invented electricity you know you've helped to

[68:23]put together this American government and you've also found a previously unknown

[68:30]passage of the Bible well what ended up happening as people eventually

[68:35]found out that Franklin had actually plagiarized the poems from sadi so

[68:41]what he said was a biblical verse was actually a poem from

[68:45]soggy and eventually this was a big scandal during the 1700s how

[68:50]can this you know most how can this non-muslim take the columns

[68:55]of a Muslim man and essentially pass them off as part of

[68:58]the Bible so the question becomes what was the poem that so

[69:02]enthralled Franklin that he thought it should be part of the Bible

[69:09]well the poem is actually in the next slide and this poem

[69:11]by the way is hanging in the front entryway of the United

[69:17]Nations here in this code as Saudis Sagi goes on to say

[69:19]and I see a high Dennis I be smiling so I don't

[69:23]know if he's related to you but you know so I hear

[69:27]sad you the poem and the poet says human beings are members

[69:29]of a hole in creation of one essence and so if one

[69:35]member is afflicted with pain other members uneasy will remain if you

[69:40]have no sympathy for human pain the name of human you cannot

[69:42]retain this is the home of sadly the Franklin thought should be

[69:48]part of the Bible because the message that convey is a message

[69:54]of universality and the universal human commonality and the link in terms

[69:59]of the humanity and it goes beyond that you know many of

[70:05]the early American philosophers and American thinkers were tremendously influenced by both

[70:10]Imam ID and by a Muslim Sufism and I'll show you what

[70:18]I mean here in the next slide so this is Rumi he's

[70:23]one of the famous Muslim scholars you can see the influence of

[70:26]Rumi on these two important American philosophers Ralph Waldo Emerson the individual

[70:32]on the top and then Henry David Thoreau they arguably considered the

[70:38]most important philosophers in America they came up with this movement called

[70:43]the transcendentalist movement which is a very important native-born movement that started

[70:48]in Massachusetts and became the most important American philosophy to come out

[70:54]of the United States well anyway the next slide here gets to

[70:59]my point Ralph Waldo Emerson and his personal works so this is

[71:03]taken from the complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson lectures and biographical

[71:09]sketches volume 10 and Ralph Waldo Emerson's library is located in Boston

[71:13]so this is where you know I went out there and I

[71:15]actually was able to you know identify this in among his writings

[71:21]Ralph Waldo Emerson has several portions of his journal where he talks

[71:27]about that Imam Ivan says the the hadith IV is a fine

[71:29]example of character according to Ralph Waldo Emerson so idea been Edna

[71:36]thought it called for his courage the Lion of God Mohammed said

[71:38]of him salat a right of a sudden I am the city

[71:44]of knowledge but Ali is the gate muhammad sallallaahu i do a

[71:47]sudden said very assert the virtues Oh Ali by which men are

[71:52]brought near to their creator but thou by thy intellect are created

[71:55]near and stand this before them by many Riis of approach so

[72:00]here Ralph Waldo Emerson is talking about the high intellect of Imam

[72:05]Ali hiding senem and essentially you know holding him up is a

[72:08]fine example of character and as a fine example of how an

[72:15]individual should behave with regard to their character and their relations with

[72:19]other people and with regard to their relations to God Ralph Waldo

[72:22]Emerson like I said is an important figure in American philosophy because

[72:27]he influenced many of the subsequent romantic you know writers during the

[72:33]time many of the Romantic poets in America and arguably one of

[72:38]the most important Romantic poets in America a man named the most

[72:43]important poet in the history of America is this man Walt Whitman

[72:46]next slide please Walt Whitman and it's really interesting there's this entire

[72:53]group in academia that that is studying whether what Whitman was actually

[72:59]a Sufi Muslim or not because many of Walt Whitman's writings allude

[73:04]to the fact that Walt Whitman had a profound understanding of Islam

[73:09]has conveyed by the Sufis so one of the poems that really

[73:15]strikes the interest of many of the American academic scholars and Western

[73:20]scholars is this poem that was written by Walt Whitman in 1891

[73:24]called a Persian lesson and this is a beautiful poem and I'll

[73:28]just read part of it for you the background to this poem

[73:34]is Walt Whitman is talking about this scholar a Muslim scholar who

[73:38]is giving a class to a student and so this is what

[73:43]the poem is communicating what the teacher is saying to us as

[73:47]students so the poem goes like as follows finally my children to

[73:51]envelop each word each part of the rest Allah is all all

[73:56]all is eminent in every life and object may be at many

[74:02]and many are more removes yet Allah Allah Allah is here so

[74:06]when the Western academics look at this they say this man you

[74:10]know Walt Whitman if you look at his personal journals he talks

[74:17]very intimately about his knowledge of this transcendent creator a an all-encompassing

[74:22]creator that transcends everything and this is really something that's you know

[74:28]heavily influenced by you know the you know various Muslim philosophies so

[74:33]that's you know just a small I would say section of the

[74:37]influence of Assam on various American writers and poets you know we

[74:44]can spend all night here as I mentioned there are entire scholars

[74:47]who've dedicated their life to looking at the influence of Islamic philosophy

[74:52]on American literature and American arts but you know we won't spend

[74:57]that you know the night here is I wanted to tell you

[75:01]about some interesting characters and stories of Islam in America and you

[75:06]know we'll close up with this final section and then we can

[75:09]open it up for questions or comments so here this is an

[75:15]interesting story this story occurs during the Civil War remember the civil

[75:19]war in America was was a fight between who who can tell

[75:21]me who the Civil War was between yes you in the back

[75:27]what's that yes robert e lee representing who the south and I

[75:36]guess the other side was who Abe Lincoln in the north right

[75:39]so as part of the you know the the northern armies the

[75:44]Union armies had this thing called the scorched earth policy so any

[75:49]library in any institution of higher learning in the south they would

[75:52]burn to the ground and what you see here in the upper

[75:57]left corner is a Union General and that named General Croxton General

[76:01]Croxton arrives in Alabama next slide please and in Alabama he sees

[76:08]the beautiful University of Alabama library he's commanded to burn it down

[76:13]to the ground so the University of Alabama had one of the

[76:16]most expensive libraries in America and the gentleman on the on the

[76:21]bottom right is a man named Andre de la Frey he was

[76:22]the librarian of the University of Alabama so the librarian goes to

[76:28]general Croxton and he begs him he pleads with him please don't

[76:31]burn down this library this is the most you know the impressive

[76:34]collection of books in the south and in and you know in

[76:40]America so general Carson says okay you know you seem like a

[76:43]good man I still need to burn down the library but as

[76:46]an act of good faith I'll let you select one book from

[76:52]your library to preserve and does anyone want to guess what book

[76:55]he saves the Quran exactly so if you go to the next

[77:01]slide here this is the time that he preserves the a put

[77:04]on Andre de veau fray and this Quran is still held by

[77:09]b.i newly rebuilt library at the University of Alabama and then general

[77:13]Croxton afterwards asks Andre de veau fray you know you had thousands

[77:16]of books here why out of all of these books did you

[77:22]choose this English translation of the Quran he said you know all

[77:24]of the other books were replaceable this is the only book that

[77:27]was irreplaceable I don't know if he meant it in terms of

[77:31]content or if he meant it in terms of no back when

[77:34]they didn't have Amazon so he can't just order books so maybe

[77:37]it was a difficult book to you know order but the point

[77:40]being that you know this Andre de veau Frey had a wide

[77:45]selection of books that he could have chosen from but he ended

[77:47]up choosing the al-quran next story next slide please so this is

[77:54]an interesting story and this occurs at the beginning of World War

[77:59]1 at the beginning of World War 1 the United States knew

[78:02]that it was going to engage in battle in places in northern

[78:05]Africa so places with lots of desert and they thought that the

[78:10]best vehicle for engaging in warfare and northern Africa were camels but

[78:13]you know they had no one in America that could raise camels

[78:18]and could train camels so what they ended up doing is they

[78:20]went to Lebanon and they found the man named Johnny who said

[78:24]yes I can raise camels for you you know so they brought

[78:29]hi Johnny over to the United States along with something like a

[78:33]hundred cameras now as any of you know you know that Lebanon

[78:35]doesn't have many deserts it doesn't have many camels so high driving

[78:39]didn't really know anything about cameras so what ended up happening is

[78:43]after a few months many of Heidi's camels ended up dying and

[78:50]how daddy loved the work of raising camels and he opened up

[78:52]a diner but you know there's a monument in Arizona - hi

[78:57]Johnny which is shaped as a pyramid now this is interesting because

[79:01]as many of you know there was there are no pyramids in

[79:06]that Lebanon right so even in the gravestone that they've built for

[79:10]hajjali there's this tremendous misunderstanding of you know Muslims and the geography

[79:14]but it's an interesting story because you know at the time they

[79:17]couldn't pronounce hi daddy's name so they would call him hi jolly

[79:20]that was his official name on the on the you know record

[79:25]books so if you look up the camels of the high jolly

[79:30]in Arizona this is the man that you'll see hi Daddy and

[79:34]next slide please in terms of the first measured in America you

[79:38]know there's a lot of discussion about where the first message it

[79:42]was built and there's really no good answer that I've come across

[79:48]but one potential answer is the message that was built by this

[79:51]man I met Alexander Russell when Alexander Russell Wed was a journalist

[79:55]he was working in New York at the time it was good

[80:00]friends with Mark Twain and eventually he converted to a stun and

[80:02]when he converted to a stun he decided to build a message

[80:08]it in downtown New York somewhere around the Year 1891 so Hamid

[80:12]Alexander Russell web he raises some money he's able to build the

[80:16]messages in downtown New York in 1891 but the problem with that

[80:22]message it is it was a beautiful building but no one would

[80:24]attend the message so after a few years the message went out

[80:31]of business and that's why now the interesting story here is when

[80:34]the measured went out of business the New York Times the following

[80:37]day came up with the following headline and that's Spike Lee's said

[80:42]fall of Islam in America story of a Muslim propaganda that came

[80:48]to grief Muslims failed to agree so the New York Times back

[80:52]in 1891 talks about you know new institution but it falls apart

[80:56]because the Muslims don't agree and the New York Times goes on

[81:00]to say that this is probably the end of the somme in

[81:02]America because if they couldn't diagnose build this Nesbit here in New

[81:06]York then you know what hope is there well you know what

[81:10]harm did that like many instance the New York Times was incorrect

[81:13]so you know now but there were other massagin that were built

[81:19]in New York next slide please next you know remember the controversy

[81:29]a few years ago when they wanted to build the messaging near

[81:33]Ground Zero you know the story came out during that time when

[81:36]when the historians went back and looked at the history of the

[81:40]area near Ground Zero they found that actually back in the late

[81:44]1800s the the entire area was filled with Syrian and Lebanese Muslims

[81:49]so there were massagin nearly had the Ground Zero back all the

[81:56]way you know during that time and in fact they called that

[81:58]area little Syria and this is a picture of a diagram at

[82:03]the time this is near downtown New York if any of you

[82:05]have been to New York you know near the World Trade Center

[82:09]area this is what it looked like back in the late 1800s

[82:15]it was where the Syrian and the you know Lebanese Muslims all

[82:19]congregated you know New York has different neighborhoods like Little China Little

[82:22]Italy what-have-you so this via Muslim Syrians had conquered the area near

[82:29]Ground this is an interesting area and the title was when in

[82:35]harem enclave thrived downtown the point being that geography is very fluid

[82:39]and so you know what you perceived you know be in existence

[82:45]today isn't necessarily what always was in existence so you know this

[82:49]is an important point to make next point next class slide please

[82:53]and this slide here next slide please we'll skip over this part

[83:00]so here I wanted to talk about the number of massage yet

[83:04]that have been founded in America so as I mentioned you know

[83:09]many of the early massagin were founded in the late 1800s Early

[83:13]1900s but really the growth of the massage and where the mosques

[83:17]in America is a relatively recent phenomenon so you can see that

[83:22]you know although the first purpose-built message it is most likely you

[83:28]know there was a measurement built in Highland Park you know by

[83:35]a group of brothers but eventually that message went out of business

[83:40]here the slide shows you the number of massage it founded over

[83:43]time and I think the interesting statistic for me is just looking

[83:47]at the number of massage in 2000 and the number of massage

[83:53]it in 2010 so almost the seventy-four percent increase and the number

[83:57]of messages that have been founded so many of the messages in

[84:00]America are relatively young meaning they're still you know organizationally not well

[84:08]established and still organizationally they have a lot of you know room

[84:12]and death and and areas to go now in the next slide

[84:17]I wanted to go into more detail and talk about the first

[84:19]Theory Center in u.s.

[84:22]a mother I don't like the term you know sharing because you

[84:25]know it's problematic it really gets in the way of our understanding

[84:29]of the deeper concept but but I'll mention it here to make

[84:36]a point you know the first follower the first message devoted exclusively

[84:39]to the followers event bate was founded in 1924 and does anyone

[84:46]know where was founded does anyone want to take a guess Michigan

[84:52]I hear ya Michigan City that's right Michigan City Indiana in 1924

[85:01]and this is a picture of that measure in Michigan City Indiana

[85:06]and eventually they brought chef Shipley Elaine Hummel to uh you know

[85:12]essentially lead the congregation which at the time was a mixture of

[85:19]you know Sonny's and followers of a debate and other ad groups

[85:22]and eventually as all of you know as chefs should be migrated

[85:24]here to Dearborn now you know there's more information about this history

[85:30]to go to the next slide and this beautiful book called Shiism

[85:36]in America by professor lee akeem who's now at McMaster University I

[85:39]would urge all of you to buy this book and to read

[85:44]it because he really gives a very nice overview of the history

[85:47]of the followers of that innervates in North America and he mentions

[85:51]the following you know numbers just if you can look at the

[85:56]you know institutions and the number of massages that have been founded

[86:00]over time you'll you'll notice that most of the massage did were

[86:03]founded in the 1980s and in the 1990s now the interesting thing

[86:07]that Professor the al-qaeda mentions in his book is in the in

[86:11]the next slide these are the challenges facing cheering institutions and I

[86:17]want you to notice the challenges that you know he conducted a

[86:21]survey so he asked all of the massages and all of the

[86:27]institutions of the followers of a debate what are the challenges that

[86:30]your organization's are facing and based on that survey he came up

[86:33]with the following list so the number one challenge was facility many

[86:37]of the followers of anger debate don't have a full-time dedicated facility

[86:44]so it's a struggle for them so in Hamden allah has blessed

[86:47]this community with a full-time facility so that number one challenge is

[86:50]not a barrier here the number two challenge transmitting religion to youth

[86:56]so the point being that you know there's this disconnect between the

[87:01]pioneering generation the generation that established the Medicaid and the subsequent that

[87:06]generation of individuals that followed and this is obviously a problem not

[87:10]just with the followers of enervate but it's actually a universal problem

[87:15]that that's being encountered across all religions in America you know the

[87:20]fastest growing religion or religious group in in the United States and

[87:24]this group of people called the nuns how many of you've heard

[87:26]of the nuns and onb s so these are people that don't

[87:32]affiliate with any particular community and this is the most rapidly growing

[87:37]group after the nuns comes the Muslims and the Hindus the point

[87:42]being that every religious group is facing this challenge of transmitting the

[87:46]a religion in a in a relevant way to youth and then

[87:52]of course you know there's the typical issues of finances and what-have-you

[87:55]next slide please now in terms of our geographical distribution of American

[88:02]Muslims most of the American Muslims live in you know either California

[88:06]New York Illinois and Michigan is number five or six these statistics

[88:11]are a bit old I think they're you know maybe nine ten

[88:15]years old so they'll need to be updated but I think the

[88:18]categories still hold true the next slide in terms of the top

[88:25]occupations of American Muslims isn't based on a survey conducted by a

[88:29]professor named desaad Bagby he's come up with the following numbers see

[88:34]the number one occupation of Muslims in America is students followed by

[88:41]engineers physicians homemakers programmers researchers administrative assistants you'll notice that nowhere on

[88:51]the list is terrorists listed so you know most Americans are actively

[88:56]contributing to different walks of life in their own and so the

[89:01]question becomes you know why are we reviewing this history of Muslims

[89:05]in America you know George Orwell has his book on 1984 and

[89:13]he has a interesting a statement in there says he who controls

[89:17]the past controls the present he who controls the present controls the

[89:22]future meaning if you're unable to control your own past you won't

[89:27]be able to move forward if you don't know your past you

[89:33]won't be able to control your future and then the point being

[89:36]here when we go back to the is a photo sofa hominin

[89:41]nasty malamar table theama Latika no idea what did I mess it

[89:43]up one mother when the silly people say what has caused them

[89:48]to change their prior directions say to them to Allah belongs the

[89:52]east and the West this is the main takeaway from tonight's presentation

[89:55]that Islam is really rooted deeply in the in the essence of

[90:00]the United States and it's actively contributing not just in the past

[90:04]but even moving to the to the future you know many people

[90:11]feel pessimistic with the recent election but you know I think that

[90:15]these are actually very optimistic and hopeful times if you go to

[90:18]the next slide because what this is this type of pressure has

[90:22]caused is really a creative renaissance within the Muslim community you see

[90:26]that the you know that there are certain pockets of Muslims that

[90:31]are using this these negative pressures and trying to come up with

[90:37]something better but vibin metohia accent and Nnamani yousa barely with hardship

[90:44]comes ease and it's interesting how certain Muslims when in reaction to

[90:48]all of these difficulties will just sort of become insulated whereas other

[90:52]Muslims just go out there and become more proactive and here's just

[90:56]a picture of some of the individuals who in their own way

[91:01]shape or form are trying to contribute to the American narrative of

[91:04]a stock of Muslims in America and then I've purposely included you

[91:08]know people like Kareem abdul-jabbar Linda sore ft Haj Mohammed dave chappelle

[91:14]although not a truly practicing Muslim he goes out there and he

[91:20]says he's a Muslim and he you know comedic Lee tries to

[91:23]you know depict the Muslim situation a representative Keith Ellison this sister

[91:29]and the redhead job I don't know how many of you know

[91:33]her her name is G willow Wilson she's come up with the

[91:35]first Muslim comic book with Marvel you know Marvel the comic book

[91:43]company that's come up with spider-man she's come up with a female

[91:48]Muslim a superhero you know that's really interesting and obviously beyond that

[91:53]you know there are many institutions both here in Michigan and beyond

[91:57]that I think are making a tremendous contribution and I've listed here

[92:01]for example say in say it hasn't sate osan's book here american

[92:08]crescent which i think is really arguably one of the finest books

[92:11]that i've seen that really puts a human face to Islam in

[92:13]America then obviously there are many tremendous organizations here in the area

[92:18]that I would urge all of you to support to continue this

[92:23]hopeful attitude and this positive affective I've been led to he acid

[92:27]what viability he acid respond with that which is more beautiful you

[92:31]know organizations like Tao hate summer Cab Zaman International and then obviously

[92:37]there are you know contributing tremendously to the community you know battered

[92:43]women in what-have-you and then obviously there are Muslim civil defense organizations

[92:47]like the Muslim Justice League and Muslim advocates so the point being

[92:53]that rather than being pessimistic about the situation I think there's ample

[92:56]ammunition and ample opportunity to create something more beautiful and to leave

[93:02]our own imprint on society like the previous Muslims have left behind

[93:07]like oh Madhavan Saeed who left behind the written Quran like you

[93:15]know high driving who left behind you know that is camels like

[93:19]Muhammad Ali xander russell webb who left behind the messages the question

[93:23]becomes what will you leave behind what will we leave behind that

[93:27]will leave a lasting influence on the on the country and on

[93:32]the image of Muslims in America today and the final words I'd

[93:35]like to conclude with these words of the Ahmadi I really love

[93:39]these words because they really define the concept of what a nation

[93:42]is and what a homeland is you know many times we oftentimes

[93:48]think of a homeland as being the place of our genetic origins

[93:51]of our of our ethnic origins Imam Ali A's Saddam takes a

[93:57]very different position he doesn't define a homeland with respect to your

[94:02]ethnic roots or with respect to your origins but he defies a

[94:04]homeland in the following way he says with wealth a strange land

[94:11]is a homeland while with destitution even a homeland is a strange

[94:16]land meaning if you're treated well in a society if you if

[94:19]you're wealthy not in terms of material wealth but just the presence

[94:26]of comforts for example just the fact that you have running water

[94:28]here in America puts you in the top five percent of people

[94:33]in the world think about that just the fact that you have

[94:36]access 24 hours a day 7 days a week to pure running

[94:41]clean water makes you among the wealthiest people not just in the

[94:44]world today but in world's history so when imam ali idea saddam

[94:51]says when the wealth a strange land is a homeland this is

[94:54]what he's talking about look at the tremendous resources and assets that

[94:58]we have here the question becomes how will we use these tremendous

[95:01]wealth and resources and assets to improve to spread the message of

[95:09]Islam in a positive way and to a spread be and to

[95:11]improve the condition of the society in which we are living in

[95:16]tonight I just wanted to take this time to present this and

[95:18]tomorrow we'll get into more detail with regard to Mr Bond but

[95:22]I thought you know this would be a good opportunity given that

[95:25]tomorrow's the first day of on essentially just that you know take

[95:28]this time to reclaim the narrative of Muslims in America and hopefully

[95:32]demonstrate that Islam has made tremendous contributions in mind with when Allah

[95:37]subhana WA Ta'ala says then I have measured up with muffled it

[95:41]to Allah belongs the east and the west this is what a

[95:43]lots talking about you know Islam isn't there's something that's relegated to

[95:46]the east rather it's universal every every where where people submit to

[95:51]the Almighty that's where Islam exists Robin electric adenosine Allah fauna Robin

[95:57]or da da da day now so NK Muhammad a DMM Katrina

[96:02]Robin our dr.

[96:05]Hyman Ahmedabad a Rocco I'm now appeared on our camera and the

[96:17]Madonna from Sanada or me company so I Solana medallion permit Thank

[96:31]You dr.

[96:32]sondik that was a very educational and illuminating lecture Salada Pimentel I

[96:37]leave a comment brothers before you leave the store my dear than

[96:45]Java tomorrow and the day after 4:00 at night I will be

[96:48]having to sign up with us for very honored to have been

[96:50]here and before you leave to scrub in on Zakia we have

[96:54]the dates of the advance and as well as will be here

[96:57]at a program and you'll have one with an image as well

[96:59]and so inshallah we hope to see you tomorrow Salam aleikum markets

[97:04]line obokata glad I'm from Edwin ilene hamann

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