my pocket and I had ten quid and so she
said just give me ten pounds I gave her
ten pounds I think was about fifty five
pounds at the time and she gave me this
two volume which I still have in my
library this was over 20 years ago and
we've been friends a good way of gaining
a friend quickly being generous so she's
been a dear friend she's from a
beautiful family Kentucky and family
from the founders of Louisville and and
I want to also acknowledge another great
Kentuckian family that the Binghams
Eleanor bingham's here tonight these
these are these are the really the the
families that built this city that that
that put their money and their lives and
their civic service into this city and
those of you who have migrated to this
city from other places acknowledging
these are the ioan they're what the
Arabs call the mela and and it's
important to acknowledge these people
and and seek their counsel and and and
work with them to better this community
and also I would have much rather had
the great Coleman barks come up and
recite some Rumi for us but one of the
great poets of America came tonight
dr. Coleman barks and and I just say one
thing roomie like gazali is what I call
a trans historical figure because they
speak across centuries some people speak
to their time in their place but these
people speak to every time in every
place not on on every detail sometimes
they're men or women of their time but
on these great issues they speak across
centuries and that's why when we read
them they affect our hearts and Coleman
really single-handedly has opened up to
a generation of Americans the great
wisdom teachings of our tradition of
which Rumi is only a voice he's one of
the greatest voices because he was
gifted in that but he is part of a
tradition and we forget that Rumi in
that way is not saying anything from
Genaro Deen what he is reiterating is
these eternal truths that were given to
our prophets Aliza them and that's why
he and the end is a student of our
Prophet Muhammad Imam al-ghazali is a
student of our Prophet Muhammad I want
to thank the community for coming out in
support of Zaytuna I really hope that in
the coming years you see the fruit of
this we have immense potential may Allah
give us TOEFL and also Peter from the
careers here he wrote a very nice
article the last time I'm not going to
hold you to that this time you can write
whatever you want so it's a free country
and a Free Press
last I heard anyway so god bless all of
you vertical love feet comb I really
thank you I think dr. Sandberg bee who's
a great servant of this community and
rightly honored tonight may Allah
subhana WA Ta'ala
elevate all of you increase all of you
bring you closer to God you bring you
closer to Allah Allah is closer to us
than our jugular vein it actually says
carotid artery but jugular vein sounds
nicer in English so it's usually
translated a jugular vein but the
carotid artery is the artery of
consciousness because all you have to do
every doctor knows you want to knock
somebody out put your thumb on his
carotid artery and he's gone
and God is closer to us than our
unconsciousness so may Allah make us
conscious servants of the one true
living eternal Lord of all the world's
said online
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