Walead Mosaad – Introduction to Sabeel Community
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The speaker discusses the importance of Islam in providing answers for people, as it is a world that everyone wants to live in without fear of the world. They believe that achieving this feeling of belonging and connection is the most important aspect of life, and that there is a way to facilitate that experience. They are excited about the work they are working on, which involves working with different groups of people and people with fresh eyes.
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People have become alienated from the traditional institutions. And
as a result, they believe that Islam doesn't really provide the
relevancy and the answers that they're looking for North America
has been has become very event focused. It's like, here's the
event, and everybody gets excited, and everybody goes, and then
everybody goes home. And then what? You know, we don't really
have this concept anymore of building people. We have to face
the world and reality as it is, and not as we want it to be. And I
think our own projections onto life often get in the way of
ourselves. And Islam provides, you know, the background for that.
This world that we're living in is no accident. It's not random. It
has a purpose it has.
Everyone has a purpose, everyone who's on the face of the planet.
Everyone who ever lived and everyone live is a divine choice
and a divine blessing. What we're trying to do is
meet people where they're at without any sort of pretense or
preconceived notions about where they should be. We want people to
come to the dean and see it for the beauty that we see in it. And
obviously, that beauty comes out in many different ways. But I
think the most significant way isn't actually the people that it
can produce. We're all sort of orphans in this world. Many of us
don't feel very connected even to the communities, the physical
communities that we live in. And
we want to be able to facilitate that space where people can feel a
sense of belonging, a sense of fulfillment, a sense of spiritual
connection. I'm most excited about the work that we're trying to do.
It's the view that we get an opportunity to work with different
groups of people, different perspectives, different
backgrounds, young people, people who still are looking at the world
with fresh eyes, maybe not very cynical, inquisitive
still has hope.