Imtiaz Sooliman – 21 Icons Short Film

I don't

work in normal situations. I regard myself as a disaster

tourist. You know, I go to countries where nobody wants to go

to so you have to be mad to be able to work with me. It

wasn't because of school that I decided what I want to do. It was

because of a person, Dr haferji, he would come home and treat

everybody with such respect at a very young age, I said, I will be

a doctor because of this man,

the spiritual teacher, looked me in the eye and said, My son, you

will form an organization. The name will be wakul Waqf, een gift

of the givers. You will serve all people of all races, you will

serve them unconditionally.

Dr Suleman is one of the nicest people you'll ever meet. His life

was just giving. So I wanted to shoot a portrait of Dr Sullivan

holding this gift, looking into a place of absolute desolation, if

we build a three story building gospel in the middle of a war

zone. People thought we met. The bombs fell. The guy that I dealt

with, Dr Ahmed gandhur. He started singing, bombing, shelling,

bombing, shelling. And he added all of the Arabic words, which I

don't know what it meant. And the guy said, Is this guy crazy? And

he would laugh at it, because you could find this was a way of

outlet for him. You

it was in Somalia when I went to a child and I put a biscuit in a

child's hand, the child took its own hand, small hand, and rubbed

my face like this and gave a big smile. It was very touching.

All these communities that I see, they receive you with open arms,

and they say it doesn't matter if you bring something or you don't

bring something. What matters to us is the fact that you thought

about us,

the greatest thing South Africa has taught me is the spirit of

love. You know, we've come from a turbulent past, but in spite of

that, I've noticed the togetherness between different

people.

Can we get some rubble that side?

Don't throw it act. Dr Sullivan, can I just covered me on all my

missions. I've saved you

all this trouble. A gift represents human kindness. Now a

truer word was spoken with Dr Sullivan. He'll give a gift

without expecting anything back, and I love the contrast between

this beaming man and this gift, and he brings them to the darkest

places imaginable.

Never put a person who's down into the ground. Carry them and pick

them up. And whatever you do is done through you and not by you.

And don't ever forget that you