sooner mm Rahim a hundred like him but
admin portal to a ser amada shirt off at
em via even more studying but I have no
luck with a lemon that are evolving from
the landing that we're very happy at
zaytuna to be launching our second
seasons journal addition although it's
taken us a little bit of time we believe
that the quality speaks for itself the
level of articles the level of work
that's gone into it I think people are
going to be very happy when they see it
the reason that I i named it seasons and
the reason I did that is because one I
love watching seasons i like watching
transitions one of the things that I
really like about Allah is that he's
made this planet with four seasons I
mean I just think why he did because
sometimes when it's summertime I think
why isn't every day like this but then I
realized I wouldn't appreciate that day
if it wasn't like that and then when
winter comes it's amazing to and when
spring comes Subhan Allah and then
autumn when the leaves are falling and
changing colors and so I actually really
enjoy that and one of the things that
allah says in the protons wanted reasons
that he did that was for you to be
thankful diamond other than the atomic
era hora the ship Allah the one who
wanted to remember God but also to be
grateful to God that's why he made this
changing of the night in the day and the
transitions in the world so I mean I
really love that about my lord I mean I
was thinking today I was peeling an
orange and I was thinking how easily it
is to peel an orange like when you
actually break it and you get that small
that comes out of it God didn't have to
do that you know but it's just super
bunches that's a beautiful thing to do
and then the fact that it breaks into
pieces it's like a very generous fruit
so if you're with other people you can
share it could have been just one month
for
like an apple well I I would see about
that today just dis orange i was looking
at how easy the peel came off and just
thinking you know Malik is grateful not
just for the orange but for the appeal
and for the smell and for the taste and
for the benefit of it all it's just I
really feel like modern people have
become so disconnected because now they
have orange drink and it says just like
real orange that's the modern world to
me it's it's all synthetic it's one you
know it's one step away from God's world
and so people are disconnected one of
the things that I learned from living
with nomadic people and something that
I'm very appreciative of the time that I
spent with them was just to look at
things one of the things that we used to
do in Mauritania was just watch the
little dung beetles that are amazing
they're these amazing little creatures
and they'll watch them because they're
everywhere and you just watch them you
have to Marvel and little children do
that it's one of the things about
children that I really like is that they
just they're amazed at little things
that people have become very
disconnected from and so that's part of
why I wanted that name because I really
like that seasons one of the really odd
things about modern moans is it we are
constantly going on about how universal
Islam is this Universal religion and yet
the way in which muslims practice it is
so exclusivist and so provincial as to
alienate so many other peoples and one
of the things that is long has always
had is this universal appeal there are
so many islamic books and magazines and
pamphlets that i see out there that i
wouldn't want to give to my mother I
wouldn't want to give to a non-muslim
because one it's poorly written it's
poorly presented to the information
inside of it is inaccurate or it's
limited its exclusivist inappropriately
contextualized there's all these
problems and so I think presenting Islam
in a way in which somebody says it and
that's that's iLike that that's
something that's Islam to me that's why
when it was presented to me i really was
attracted to it and so we feel like we
need to we just need to humble ourselves
a little bit as as a community I think
we need to be a little more self
effacing I really feel that it would
help us to be critical of ourselves I
mean the people i work with know that
I'm and I'm very critical of the work
that we do I want it to be better and I
look at it and and I'm always looking
how do we improve this because I bet
said that to me that's Islam Islam is
how do i improve my prayer should be
improving it shouldn't be diminishing or
leveling out there's always room for
improvement in the prayer there's always
room for more awareness more presence
better recitation of Quran even wudu
more presence in the wooble there's
always room for improvement and that's
why I really feel that when we're
committed to that we're going to I think
look at ourselves more critically
constructively i'm not talking about
turning into flagellate errs and
whipping our backs the woe is me
syndrome that's not in any way what I'm
talking about I'm talking about
constructively how can we actually
really do things that are going to
improve our community and instead of
whining and complaining I really feel to
be much more useful to give some
solutions there's so many armchair
critics out there in the Muslim
community that criticize this or that
effort or this or that effort and
they're not doing anything and sometimes
absolutely right i totally agree with
their criticism it's not like it's not
true but it's like give us alternative
let's see something better those those
are the people that I want to be liked
and aspired to are the ones that really
want to to do something the the Chinese
say don't curse light a candle and
cursing the darkness I really believe
that Allah has enabled us with means
unprecedented in human history for
getting a message out there and I also
believe that we as people that really do
believe in God and His Messenger saw a
lot of a sudden them we have to ask
ourselves why is it that we've made God
and His Messenger so unappealing why is
it that the devil has made vice so
appealing that's something I really i
asked myself all the time how is it that
the devil's got the best PR people he's
got the best public relations people
he's got the best marketing I mean you
look at what he's doing out there and
what he's taking people to and you have
to say this he's got one smooth
operation he's a smooth operator but I
really believe vice cells but virtues
the bargain I really believe that's the
bargain out there but it it needs to be
presented I read a book once I'm in the
titles somewhat less famous but it was a
Christian book it was called God has a
communication problem but it was
actually about poor preaching it was is
actually about preachers how they're
doing such a bad job at telling people
about God and I really think that that's
true in the Muslim world as well that we
also have a real problem in being
Khalifa is a representative and we call
the Haditha Haditha to rasool allah the
represent of the messenger of allah and
that's why every Muslim in essence is an
ambassador and the thing about
ambassadors and I've met several
ambassadors in my life one thing that's
really always struck me about
ambassadors they are the most civil the
most polite and courteous and the most
conciliatory people you'll ever meet and
that's why their government sent them to
represent them so i feel seasons in that
way is hopefully an ambassador of the
islamic
tradition that's how I want I want
people to see it and and realize that
this is an intelligent religion it's a
religion that has intelligent people in
it that are thinking about important
issues and trying to come to some
understanding of those we don't have all
the answers God alone has all the
answers we don't have all the answers
but Islam what it does i feel is it
provides enough that you do not become
confused you don't lose your mind you
don't lose your sanity or your humanity
but we as Muslims always have to be very
careful about thinking that any
individual or any group knows at all
because that's just not the case that's
why we always end our statements with a
low item and Allah knows best because
that's the reality Allah knows best so
that's what we're trying to do we're
trying to put something out there that
the Muslims will be proud of and
hopefully that the Prophet some of my to
sew them himself will be proud of
because that's what we really want is
that Allah is pleased with us and then
hit that His Messenger on the day of
judgment is pleased that we were among
the ranks of his Auma so may Allah grant
us that pleasure and Sean thank you very
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