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And never has Islam flourished in a land,

except that there were local indigenous scholars who led the change and who led that torch to the next generation.

And never has Islam faltered, never has Islam dwindled, except that we find that there was no scholarship to pass that religion down.

And I give you two examples from our own world that we live in,

two living countries, two examples that some of us have visited.

I have only visited one of these two lands, but I have friends from both of them.

And these two examples are South America and South Africa.

And by South America, I mean Argentina, Brazil,

a number of countries and South Africa.

At the turn of the century, both of these lands experienced large batches of Muslim immigrants for the first time in their histories.

Large batches of Muslim immigrants. People came from the Ottoman

empires to South America from what is now Syria and these lands. They came to South America.

And people came from India because the British obviously were in

charge of India and they were also in charge of South America and of South Africa and

they wanted to import a group of educated people to act as clerics as secretaries

as indentured servants.

So they imported tens of thousands of Indians and of course Indians as we know have a huge percentage of Muslims.

So around a hundred years ago, large batches of Muslims came to South America and large batches came to South Africa.

Now, a hundred years later, if you go to South America,

I have not been blessed to give the Awa in South America.

I haven't been there yet, but I have plenty of friends and I have heard

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