Ihsaan Hendricks – 2017-07-11 – Somalia Crisis, MJC President speaks of his experiences

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The speaker discusses the challenges faced in South and East Africa, including the lack of rainfall and poor water conditions. They emphasize the importance of helping people understand the situation and offering support. The speaker also mentions their love for people in the area and their plans to travel with others. They emphasize the need to stay with people who need help and warn against negative words. They are prepared to work with people of the region, but the situation is worse than what was previously discussed.

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			Sheikh,
		
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			we've we've heard that these accounts,
		
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			you know, of people experiencing firsthand, for instance,
		
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			in the refugee camps, what the situation is
		
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			like to land.
		
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			We've spoken about the interest in his involvement,
		
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			briefly,
		
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			in terms of, you know,
		
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			why it is important for us to support
		
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			this initiative. But if we look at, you
		
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			know, from the cable listening perspective, and we
		
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			understand,
		
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			how important the work is now.
		
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			We appreciate a little bit more now than
		
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			we've ever done before. With the water restrictions,
		
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			South Africa is is facing Cape Town is
		
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			facing down in the Western Cape with the
		
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			fact that, water is now higher in the
		
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			gym, miss. But,
		
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			if we look at,
		
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			the situation in East Africa, we the famine
		
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			is as a result of of of of
		
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			of lack of rains and end up having
		
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			rain for many for many years perhaps, we're
		
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			not getting sufficient rains. The
		
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			situation is intensified.
		
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			How do we as Muslims
		
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			look at the situation? Firstly,
		
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			from from a personal perspective in in in
		
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			our own environment, and also how should we
		
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			look at it, as far as Muslims and
		
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			non Muslims like,
		
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			how they are experiencing it in that in
		
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			that part of the world?
		
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			World.
		
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			I'm very grateful. I'm sorry. All the to
		
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			all the listeners, which is okay.
		
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			I greet you and bring you the warmest
		
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			greeting from all the members of the MGC.
		
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			Sir.
		
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			If a person has lived in a land
		
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			where there is no water, you know what
		
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			it is.
		
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			I always tell people with the comparison
		
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			with our political settlements of Africa.
		
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			A person who understand
		
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			what discrimination
		
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			is.
		
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			A person that knows what it is to
		
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			live
		
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			in the country
		
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			in which
		
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			we live under apartheid rules and laws
		
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			will understand exactly what's happening in Palestine
		
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			or know exactly what's happening in Israel
		
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			because they live the apartheid
		
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			law laws.
		
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			They live in the African Valley.
		
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			So we first had information because we've lived
		
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			in those countries.
		
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			We've lived in South Africa. We know what
		
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			it is. So we know what what the
		
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			people of
		
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			Palestine people study and,
		
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			of Palestine going through.
		
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			We then know
		
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			have gone through difficult water
		
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			and water restrictions.
		
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			We will know when there's a plight, cold
		
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			people are dying
		
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			because they know it was a famine.
		
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			I have been in Somalia in 2011,
		
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			and at that time, there was all there
		
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			were also famine.
		
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			It was bad. Situation was bad. There was
		
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			no rain or very little rain.
		
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			Yeah. We don't say there is no rain.
		
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			It's litter rain.
		
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			In Somal,
		
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			I made sure
		
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			that wherever we knew and understood
		
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			we're not going for sightseeing.
		
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			We're going to work.
		
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			We're going to give a service to the
		
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			people of Somalia, and we did so, and
		
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			I made sure we did so. Even if
		
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			it if it was,
		
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			we need to help and assist cooking
		
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			and making space of food and porridges for
		
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			the small babies
		
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			who are dying.
		
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			Poor poor health conditions,
		
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			but you were there to help. And the
		
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			story you're talking is nothing new to me,
		
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			and it's not exaggeration.
		
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			People might be people haven't been there.
		
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			We'll listen to them and say, we are
		
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			exaggerating.
		
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			I saw it in my own eyes.
		
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			I saw it in my own eyes. I
		
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			can tell much more of that,
		
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			which see which I have seen while I
		
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			was there.
		
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			We spend time there
		
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			working,
		
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			feeding,
		
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			assisting
		
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			those who needed our help.
		
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			Once again,
		
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			we don't have rain. We have little rain.
		
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			There is no rain.
		
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			There is no rain.
		
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			Today, I will go with a greater passion
		
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			We understand what life is. There's no it's
		
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			not water. I will go with a greater
		
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			the greater passion. Why?
		
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			When when I went in 2011, we started
		
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			water, enough. Right? Everything sufficient.
		
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			We thank Allah for that.
		
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			Now we see there is no water.
		
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			We see the scarcity of little water.
		
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			So I would say
		
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			I will go out now and say to
		
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			people,
		
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			people
		
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			the people in Somalia and around surrounding
		
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			countries, people are dying.
		
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			They are dying because there is no water.
		
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			If there's no water, nothing grows.
		
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			If there's no water, you can't survive. There's
		
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			no survival.
		
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			Animals die.
		
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			Plantations die. Everything die.
		
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			That's what I want to say to the
		
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			I have a very special
		
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			love for the people of Somalia. Very and
		
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			I have a very special relationship with him.
		
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			All the people of Somalia know wherever I
		
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			go, they know I I I have a
		
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			very good relationship with him, very good relationship.
		
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			Because he saw me going and working into
		
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			the camps, working in the camp, working with
		
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			their people, feeding, cooking, making, and helping, assisting.
		
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			So
		
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			I went with,
		
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			at that time, I went to all the
		
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			businesses.
		
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			I stood on this
		
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			on this
		
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			shop on the stoops of this of the
		
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			of the shopping centers, like Elite Supermarket,
		
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			who always told me, Sheikh, you are free
		
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			to come and send me anytime you want
		
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			to for the purpose and the cause he
		
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			does stand for, we will support you. I
		
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			would call other people to help the people
		
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			of Somalia,
		
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			people will support
		
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			excellently Allahu Akbar.
		
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			Every weekend, he would say, myself and women
		
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			and children would stay with me
		
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			at at elite,
		
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			and believe in me, we we make thousands
		
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			of raids. Thousand of people are are giving
		
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			with the good of Allahu Ta'ala. Went from
		
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			one area to another, from one province to
		
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			another, from one Masih to another. We covered
		
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			all the Masih in the Western Cape.
		
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			We first visited them and asked for special
		
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			collection.
		
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			Jumal collection, we asked them for special collection.
		
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			Alhamdulillah, I won't mind you doing to do
		
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			it again. Although my * doesn't
		
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			allow me, and I feel sad about it,
		
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			but I will still go go the extra
		
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			go the extra way. I remember that a
		
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			month before Ramadan,
		
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			the
		
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			Somalia Somalia in
		
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			Somalia
		
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			ambassador
		
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			visited the embassy's office.
		
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			He did I did never met him, but
		
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			he knew of my activities and my assistance
		
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			and do you relieve work in Somalia?
		
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			He asked me, Sheikh, would you again assist?
		
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			We are in the the situation now at
		
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			the moment, it wasn't what it was.
		
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			The situation
		
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			is worse than what it was. So I
		
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			thought, no, if things are worse than what
		
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			it was, then it might be very, very,
		
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			very bad.
		
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			I said to him, I'm prepared to do
		
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			that for the sake of Allah for the
		
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			people of Somalia.
		
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			Even if it means
		
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			that we need to get all our other
		
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			lead organization,
		
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			get them together, and put our shoulders together,
		
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			and put our minds together
		
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			to see to what extent we are able
		
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			to help the people of Somalia, they will
		
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			do that. He said to me, Sheikh, I
		
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			am prepared as his
		
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			as ambassador
		
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			to come to work out to go with
		
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			you. If you go from mosque to mosque,
		
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			from area to area, from province to province,
		
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			I'm prepared to travel with you for the
		
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			sake of the people of Somalia and for
		
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			the condition people are living
		
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			in. So it's a change in which you
		
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			have mentioned, and that's strange to me. Let
		
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			me give you a few example when I
		
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			was there. The story doesn't differ a lot
		
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			because the situation hasn't changed.
		
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			I remember one day,
		
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			I suppose I visit 1 one camp. You
		
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			know, I I visit all different camps,
		
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			and then I went from one tent to
		
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			another. We able to be living. I went
		
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			from
		
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			11
		
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			110 to another.
		
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			As the people, how they are, how they
		
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			came here, and some would do the translation.
		
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			One mom says to me,
		
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			I have 5 or 7 children. She said,
		
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			we walk a few 100 kilometers,
		
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			making our way to Mogadishu
		
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			with the hope
		
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			that in Mogadishu, there will be help because
		
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			they know there is help coming into Mogadishu.
		
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			So they earmarked that there is and will
		
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			be help in Mogadishu.
		
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			But she had 7 children when she left,
		
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			and when she arrived, eventually, she only had
		
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			2 children.
		
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			And as she walked, children died on the
		
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			way. And she buried them in the road,
		
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			on the road, next to the on the
		
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			sides on the side of the street. She
		
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			buried them.
		
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			1 or 2 children left.
		
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			That is a reality. Isn't that is an
		
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			exaggeration.
		
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			I remember
		
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			staying in front of the hospital,
		
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			buying medicine for them.
		
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			But you see many people we've been needing.
		
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			We're both from the chemist, and we supply
		
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			different can with with with different medication.
		
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			I remember sending I remember that mother standing
		
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			with a child in her arm. The child
		
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			is dying.
		
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			The baby is dying. Could be not even
		
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			a year old.
		
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			Baby is dying.
		
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			You see them children die in the arms
		
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			of their mother.
		
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			I remember visiting 1 small 1 tent.
		
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			You know what I saw in front of
		
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			in front of the tent?
		
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			2 small graves.
		
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			I'm surprised. 2 graves right here.
		
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			As and later,
		
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			what what is this?
		
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			She know they came here. You say you
		
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			refused, child died, and she make it gray.
		
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			She made the whole right in front of
		
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			her on the opening by the opening by
		
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			the gray. She made a a hole there,
		
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			and she buried the child out in there.
		
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			Nobody just says nothing.
		
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			Make a hole, put the baby in there,
		
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			and close her and and and and close
		
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			her. 2 children died.
		
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			This is the reality.
		
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			This is serious,
		
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			and I think
		
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			I plead my support. It has been my
		
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			condition.
		
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			I plead my support to help
		
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			whichever, whoever is going to
		
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			make an effort to support the people of
		
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			of Somalia.
		
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			And Insha'Allah,
		
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			the intention is to work with,
		
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			Islamic Relief, Insha'Allah,
		
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			were together with the MGC, and I'll I'll
		
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			take them from Masjid to Masjid.
		
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			People, if you want to do something, we
		
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			have to sacrifice. We have to work, and
		
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			we'll work together. You do what work will
		
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			go out. We'll go to the business people,
		
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			and we'll go to everything. And I will
		
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			call on them. The mother I will call
		
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			the ambassador as well. The they best to
		
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			come with and go with us to all
		
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			different areas, different business people, same way on
		
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			the road, collect for the people of Somalia,
		
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			and inshallah, with the hope that we can
		
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			bring some relief. And inshallah.
		
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			And the person of all the for the
		
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			Ummah to listen.
		
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			For the ummah to listen.
		
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			He said, what we do to others,
		
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			Allah will give us much more in return.
		
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			So any permanent negative results are there, you
		
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			know,
		
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			I
		
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			warn you, don't ever utter these words. It
		
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			will be a bad dua against you, my
		
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			brother and sister. Whoever speak like that, it's
		
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			a bad dua against you. What we do
		
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			to others, Allah will take away.
		
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			Allah will take with difficulty from us. So,
		
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			inshallah,
		
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			I would
		
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			Ummah, for the fight to help the people
		
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			of
		
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			of Somalia inshallah, in the plight for water,
		
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			in the plight for rain inshallah. Easy.
		
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			May Allah make make make these tasks easy
		
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			inshallah, and may Allah
		
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			help us
		
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			to
		
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			remove difficulties from the world, from the
		
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			from what the people of Somalia are faced
		
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			with.