Walead Mosaad – Introduction to Sabeel Community

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.