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So that, in shawlata, we're going to start now a discussion about what it means to be an immigrant or what how we really understand what's happening to us right now in our political context from an Islamic conception and a few weeks ago you know I think that when we had the program that we had here about the dreamers,

it dramatically changed the way that a lot of people view the subject just because they were able to put a human face to it.

And I think that's one of the biggest points

in all of these discussions

that at some point you move from theory

to not just practice, but to interaction.

And interaction changes the way that you view theory and the way that you practice.

And I'd like us to just take a moment to appreciate, so today we're going to talk about

conceptions of asylum, refugee, migrant, these types of discussions, and I'm going to try of the

assumptions, refugees, these types of discussions, and I'm going to try very hard to stick to the Quran and the Sunna,

particularly the Ahadit of the Prophet's

some in regards to the subject,

because that's what we're trying to do is frame it from an Islamic perspective and not get too lost into modern debate.

But I do want us to just take a moment to appreciate what point of history we are in right now. There has probably

been no time in history where you had, or actually we can say that pretty confidently where

you've had a greater refugee crisis than the one that you have right now,

where you literally have a significant swath of humanity just circling around this earth trying

to find a way to survive.

And when you think about it either in terms of quantity or if you

took it in regards to how proportional the refugee population is to the human population,

we're about as backwards as it comes right now.

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