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So Hamd al-Nasheh, five years ago, did you catch the launch of Yafeeb, the public launch of Yafeeb?

No, I didn't get to catch the public launch. Five years ago. Five years ago. Five years ago, today at Hamd al-Nasheh I mean, Yafeeb was publicly launched and emphasis on public because obviously there was a lot of work that was going into it before we launched publicly.

But some of you might remember, I was sitting in a hotel room in Malaysia with my kids who have also grown five years.

Hamd al-Nasheh, the name of Allah, and you know, told the world about this new initiative, this new venture that was going to be launched.

Hamd al-Nasheh, here we are, five years later. That's how I think that for so many people there is, you know, it's just hard to grasp how much goes on behind the scenes.

So first of all, with the founding of Yafeeb, a lot of times, you know, people might think it's just one person sitting there with a no-pad.

It was a group of us at Hamd al-Nasheh that came together that sort of identified a major gap in the Muslim community.

We saw that, you know, the attacks on Islam were not just affecting us in ways that were, you know, exterior, but really, you know, penetrating our youth, right?

I mean, our young Muslims and us ourselves were still young, right?

Like, you know, our kids and just people in general, right? The attacks on Islam through a well-funded industry, right?

Have penetrated every TV screen, every computer screen, every phone, and unfortunately, many hearts.

And so we wanted to form an initiative to launch Yafeeb as a nonprofit initiative where we would put out free and accessible information that would help not just individuals, but help institutions,

understand how to nurture faith better, and not just refute doubts, because ultimately, if you're always playing defense, then you're only reinforcing the narrative, right?

But also nurture conviction, really intellectually and spiritually ground people in faith, and then inspire contribution.

And I just talk about Islam as some sort of past history, but also talk about what Islam means for us in the present and in the future, and we wanted to reach as many places as the industry has reached, right?

And so we don't get our content, right? We're putting out free curriculum for schools, for groups, we are putting out multiple toolkits, we're putting out papers, videos, media content, animations, infographics, right?

So it's a lot of content, and some people obviously are just tied to one element of Yafeeb, and so they don't really understand the whole scope of Yafeeb neither.

And here we are five years later at Hamdid Al-Rami, and now we also have Shaykh Abdul-Adur who joined us a couple of months ago.

Hamdid Al-Rami, we have now over a hundred people actually.

That's really humbling to think about, right? And count our teams, seven teams across Yafeeb.

We have over a hundred people at Yafeeb now at Hamdid Al-Rami, so we want to first of all thank everyone, you know, before we even get started with our conversation,

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