Mufti Menk – Wish For Security

			And this is why iman actually means faith
		

			and conviction.
		

			And faith and conviction comes with aman. If
		

			you notice the root words are the same,
		

			you know, you see the a, ma, and
		

			the na in both of them. So iman
		

			and aman, they they are very closely connected.
		

			If you believe correctly,
		

			you will be not only a promoter of
		

			true peace and harmony,
		

			but you will achieve inner and outer peace.
		

			And this is something that we really need
		

			to learn. So we will never be able
		

			to teach people goodness if
		

			we ourselves are very violent. You see people
		

			turn away from Islam, for example, because they
		

			think that what's happening on the globe is
		

			Islamic teachings.
		

			But we are here in order to clarify
		

			that that is not Islam. In Sierra Leone,
		

			Muslims have existed from a long long time.
		

			They make up perhaps a large percentage of
		

			the population.
		

			Where is the violence and so on that
		

			Islam teaches supposedly,
		

			yet we've been living in harmony for so
		

			long. All we are trying to do is
		

			to preserve
		

			what we have because there are elements of
		

			mischief
		

			who will keep on coming and trying their
		

			luck. We will never allow them to succeed
		

			because we would like to preserve
		

			the goodness of this respect. So this is
		

			as far as the question on security and
		

			stability and what it would do for us,
		

			actually goes.