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Assalamu alaikum, Rahmatullahi wa rahmatullahi barakatuh

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim, alhamdulillahirrahmanirrahim, ala min al-salat, wa sallamu ala Rasulih Al-Karimu, ala Aanihi, wa sahbihi wa sallamu tassi min Qafira

First of all, I hope you caught what Dr. Dariya Fahmi said that this has to be the birth of a new end

anti-war movement and I want to emphasize on the onset before we talk about the humanitarianism that's required in all of us taking care of refugees and

being there in the support of the Syrians who are now facing the greatest humanitarian disaster that we will probably know in our times as well as the

Palestinian refugees that have been displaced now for over six decades. We have to start forcing our government and

forcing policy around the world so that more refugees are not created and that we're able to make a way out for these people so that they don't continue to live in diaspora.

So when we talk about them as human beings that require our love and our compassion, one thing that I emphasize to those youth on that trip is that they expect you to be their voice.

They don't just expect you to send charity. They don't just expect you to go there and and interact with them and although that's wonderful,

allow them to feel human again and have some sort of outlet for their grief and for their pain.

They expect you to be their voice. They expect you to tell their story for them, to tell the world about them.

And you have this seemingly endless influx of refugees into the deserts of Jordan, into Turkey, internally displaced in Syria, running from airstrike to airstrike,

and looking for refuge in any part of the world and willing to put their lives on the line to escape the misery that they are in.

I want you to imagine what goes through the minds of a parent as they board a boat knowing that there is a great chance that they're not going to make it to any country shore and that their children may wash up on a beach resort in Turkey or in Greece.

I want you to imagine what goes through the minds of a mother and a child who have lost the father figure in a home and do not know whether he is dead or alive and have not seen him for five, six years and are literally living for the purpose of living in these refugee camps.

Your brothers and sisters, I want to share with you all some of the reflections that I had from these last two trips, actually, in Hamdulillah, and I encourage you, by the way, to try to also take a trip out there.

I know helping hand is organizing another youth for Jordan trip, this coming summer in Shah Allah to try to interact with these people and not only that, but to really look for the Syrian refugees that are in your own localities.

A lot of times when we talk about the Syrian refugees and what can you do for Syria, we forget that there's a piece of Syria in Baltimore and a piece of Syria in Dallas and a piece of Syria in Houston and all over the country.

There are clusters of Syrian refugees that are sitting in their apartment complexes without furniture and without any guidance as to how they should proceed with the rest of their lives.

That I've no social structure except for maybe a church or a charitable organization that brings them in once a week or once a month, that do not know how to operate a cell phone in this country, that don't know how to pay bills or apply for jobs.

They're in your cities as well, they're right here.

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