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You know

Coming up as an adult in America where Muslims are a minority and a lot of times the conversation is about preserving Muslim identity

How easy it is to lose our faith how easy this to get caught up in the outside world and

And how you find like a lot of inspiration when a few muslims gather together and like okay, wow

We exist we have number so the most part you feel isolated and you feel

Kind of a very small microcosm of a much larger society

When you travel to the Muslim world, especially this time traveling to Turkey and meeting these like huge numbers of

International students and Turkish students they're from all over the world

They're gathered together and they have the shared love of Islam a shared love of wanting to live a better life as a Muslim

I'm just absolutely

And I just feel so

Empowered as a Muslim coming to a place like this and seeing Muslims from around the world. This is why I think

More and more Muslims from around the world need to feel connected to each other

So they don't feel like they're an isolated minority. They don't feel like they're in a position of weakness

They have support and and brotherhood and connection all over the world that will at least make them feel like I'm part of something bigger

It's not just a theoretical concept of umma the ayah is said in the beginning

This in fact is your own mind a single

And I'm your wife so worshipable

It's such a powerful statement for Allah to make and he was talking about that in the context of previous generations of people

Meaning Salih and Shia even all those previous prophets that lived thousands of years before you all of you are still one

All of you are still one so hafna love

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