first of all, from the bottom of my heart from the staff that has worked very hard, also from the local community that worked with them the. Also community from Long Island some of them are here tonight to this afternoon, they were there last night we went late into the morning and just mashallah. We've been overwhelmed at the East Coast. the West Coast might not be the best coast but the East Coast is not the least coast. So you have been really really supportive and we're fortunate to have
to support in our community but I have
to say in all honesty that this doctor
would be Musa and if you if you noted
the if you noted the lecture series I'm
getting some feedback
oh hello nothing worse we have more
engineers in our community yet our
losses have the worst sound systems Tony
rasigan clock button is crushed it with
a thousand engineers and and I could
always if these dead I would always get
these horrible reverbs and I'll tell
your story about the hog and Medina is
absolute true story they had a massive
problem with the feedback the true story
because I heard this from one of the
engineers inside the room and when they
first built the message they had safety
our they brought in German technology
everything they could not figure out the
feedback profit well one day this man
came from Europe I think was from
Germany at the Turkish man came from
Europe and he was really bothered by the
feedback so he went and he told them
that you can solve their problem and
they said how do you know about this he
said yes I have a discotheque in her
head and we
we had that problem and I solved it so
he actually solved the problem in Medina
for the feedback it was a sound engineer
from Germany was working in a
discotheque so it's weird things about
being on planet Earth this trans things
happen d so i have to tell you we need
your help we need your support because
this institute is growing at dr
everybody musa who was there and if you
notice the lecture series this year has
been extraordinary we have had some of
the best scholars come to california and
fortunately a lot of them come for other
things because we have several majors
universities in the bay area so we get
these visiting scholars coming to
berkeley
stanford and we have the opportunity to
bring them over and they can give
lecture ism and they've been very
accommodating so far so our students
have really benefited from that aspect
but we are going to grow we're bringing
in a second year now the freshman of
next year and then this freshman class
is working into a sophomore year we need
to hire we need infrastructure the only
thing that I can really promise you I
have been working with this project for
several years we have made a lot of
mistakes we were on learning curves and
we have tried to be as transparent as
possible we have an assembly I can
obviously I do not believe as far as I
know that there has been any misuse of
funds there has been inefficient use in
the past undeniable that has bothered me
and has bothered other people but we
have not had any problems we've had
internal audits we've kept it at we're
trying to run it like the best
professions in the United States are
being run we have adjusted those things
that the internal auditors said needed
to be
Justin and we feel confident that the
501 C 3 which is the tax-exempt status
in the state of California I don't know
what they call it here that's a federal
designation but that's what they talked
to California this last year though has
been a transitional year the watershed
is a Twitter one of the interesting
things if people a lot of people didn't
notice this but our logo and many Muslim
logos do this our local has a crescent
moon actually for the first 10 years of
crescent moon was the wrong way it was a
waning moon and somebody noticed that
brought it to our attention so they
actually had hitched the right way
everything changed after that it's been
waxing sense but I can honestly say that
we caught in a first-rate director for
the Institute for the College and owner
was in the met him he was an
award-winning manager at Microsoft he
was at I think HP before that Cisco or
HP Cisco so he has worked in the best of
the corporations in his
knows how to do things at that level and
he really turned it Institute around and
since he's been with us and it's been a
great blessing our commitment is to get
better and better now what I'd like to
talk about this is three things right
now the first thing I want to talk about
it's just education and the idea of
Education and the problem education the
second thing just so i can remember so
people keep me clean here the second
thing i want to talk about is where we
are and finally I'd like to talk a
little bit about where we're going the
the whole I the concept of education is
in the Islamic tradition central the
profitable ideas that are said in a
sound heavy in them kumar and lima for
those of you who know arabic you know
what in them amines in tonight is what
they call it's a it's a vehicle of
encompass meant it means oh I was only
sent as a teacher and if you get into
rhetoric people who know these Sciences
you have a lot of empathy p so it's an
evolving but it's emphasizing the fact
that he is saying I was only sent to
teach I am a teacher that is essentially
what our office and I said it was he
said kingdom of Egyptian whereas nima in
the movie
cotterman hoffman i was also sent to
perfect noble character using in them
again education and morality are
inextricably bound together in our
tradition we do not separate the idea of
education from morality there was a time
in this country that is not that long
ago when that they had that idea that is
no longer the case in higher education
even in high schools today it is simply
not the case I think you have to be
aware of what's happening in this
country because we are seeing a downward
spiral that has been increasing since my
youth and getting worse and worse and
each year they say the good news right
the bad news is this year's first and
last year but the good news is it's
better than next year this is where
we're going as a society all you have to
do is look out and around you look at
the television programming there's an
amazing statement that Alexander hope he
was a great poet from the 18th century
died in 1744 days of British on the
Great British poet he's famous for
possessing on man but he said ice is a
monster of so frightful me meaning place
ntin ice is a monster of so fight
frightful mean as to be hated needs only
to be seen all you have to do is see
twice and you hate it because it's it's
ugly vice is ugly then he said but
seemed too oft it becomes a familiar
face if you see it too much it becomes a
familiar face and then first endured you
put up with it be tolerated then pity
you start feeling sorry
and then embrace its embraced it becomes
normal the prophet sallallahu
sensitivity home in that aspect and mom
car ready to come Marvin how does it be
when what is vice to you today comes
virtue tomorrow and they said a good day