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October 20th,

now going on to three years, was the birthday of Yachine Institute for Islamic Research,

was the official outward launch of Yachine Institute.

And when we set out, and obviously there was

a lot of work that went into Yappin before we actually

launched the Institute when we set out to launch this Institute knowing that we

would have a difficult time for the first couple of years is trying to explain

what Yappin is.

Some of you probably still don't know what it is.

But in shawl at least a better job of providing

the resources about what it is now if you were to go online

and to get a good understanding. And hopefully through session in shawlai you'll get a broader

understanding of what we're trying to do also.

We set out to study doubt.

That was the very first thing.

What causes Muslims themselves to leave faith or to not feel solidified enough in faith to meaningfully absorb it and practice it as well as contribute through its lens.

And the goal was to take people from doubt to contribution

and not just from doubt to belief, but doubt to contribution, doubt to belief to a place of contribution where they feel not just solidified in their faith but again they feel like it is enabling them to do great things for the world around them through the lens of Islam as we all know.

And because you can only give what you yourself have, if you don't have peace, you can't give

peace, you need peace on the inside in order to be able to give it on the outside,

or else it's very much so, short-lived, and not as substantive as it needs to be for the society

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