Imtiaz Sooliman – 21 Icons Short Film

Imtiaz Sooliman
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The speaker describes his experience of working in a difficult situation and how he faced challenges. He talks about his experience of helping people in need and how he uses his gift to help them. He also talks about his experience working in a difficult situation and how he uses his gift to help people.

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			I don't
		
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			work in normal situations. I
regard myself as a disaster
		
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			tourist. You know, I go to
countries where nobody wants to go
		
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			to so you have to be mad to be
able to work with me. It
		
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			wasn't because of school that I
decided what I want to do. It was
		
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			because of a person, Dr haferji,
he would come home and treat
		
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			everybody with such respect at a
very young age, I said, I will be
		
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			a doctor because of this man,
		
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			the spiritual teacher, looked me
in the eye and said, My son, you
		
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			will form an organization. The
name will be wakul Waqf, een gift
		
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			of the givers. You will serve all
people of all races, you will
		
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			serve them unconditionally.
		
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			Dr Suleman is one of the nicest
people you'll ever meet. His life
		
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			was just giving. So I wanted to
shoot a portrait of Dr Sullivan
		
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			holding this gift, looking into a
place of absolute desolation, if
		
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			we build a three story building
gospel in the middle of a war
		
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			zone. People thought we met. The
bombs fell. The guy that I dealt
		
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			with, Dr Ahmed gandhur. He started
singing, bombing, shelling,
		
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			bombing, shelling. And he added
all of the Arabic words, which I
		
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			don't know what it meant. And the
guy said, Is this guy crazy? And
		
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			he would laugh at it, because you
could find this was a way of
		
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			outlet for him. You
		
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			it was in Somalia when I went to a
child and I put a biscuit in a
		
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			child's hand, the child took its
own hand, small hand, and rubbed
		
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			my face like this and gave a big
smile. It was very touching.
		
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			All these communities that I see,
they receive you with open arms,
		
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			and they say it doesn't matter if
you bring something or you don't
		
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			bring something. What matters to
us is the fact that you thought
		
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			about us,
		
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			the greatest thing South Africa
has taught me is the spirit of
		
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			love. You know, we've come from a
turbulent past, but in spite of
		
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			that, I've noticed the
togetherness between different
		
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			people.
		
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			Can we get some rubble that side?
		
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			Don't throw it act. Dr Sullivan,
can I just covered me on all my
		
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			missions. I've saved you
		
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			all this trouble. A gift
represents human kindness. Now a
		
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			truer word was spoken with Dr
Sullivan. He'll give a gift
		
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			without expecting anything back,
and I love the contrast between
		
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			this beaming man and this gift,
and he brings them to the darkest
		
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			places imaginable.
		
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			Never put a person who's down into
the ground. Carry them and pick
		
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			them up. And whatever you do is
done through you and not by you.
		
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			And don't ever forget that you