Name: Speaking through Service - Rami Nashashibi | Confident Muslim
Uploaded: 2019-06-24T14:35:26.000Z
Channel: Yaqeen Institute
Description: Dr. Rami Nashashibi, Founder and President of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN), discusses the importance and obligation of Muslims to uplift underserved spaces. This talk was given at the 2019 ICNA Convention.

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 My dear respected brothers and sisters, Assalamualaikum wa rahmatullahi ta'ala wa barakatuh.  I want to welcome you on behalf of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research.  My name is Altaf Hussain and I serve as the vice president.  Inshallah we're going to have a program called Confident Muslim.  But we want to begin by thanking the board of Islamic Circle of North America  for giving us this opportunity to not only introduce Yaqeen Institute to the audience  but also to feature one of our amazing programs called Confident Muslim.  So inshallah ta'ala without further ado, I want to introduce to you and bring back to the stage  our founder and president, Sheikh Omar Suleiman, inshallah who will conduct the remaining session.  Immediately after the session we have a shahr prayer for the locals  and then inshallah we'll have the entertainment session.  So brothers and sisters, join me in giving a round of applause to welcome Sheikh Omar Suleiman.  Assalamualaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.  It's been a while.  Bismillah walhamdulillah wa salatu wa salam wa rasulullah wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa man wala.  A lot of times when we talk about Islam, we simply try to make the point that Islam is acceptable.  That Islam is not a regressive religion, that Islam does not hinder us from world progress  and Islam does not make us unproductive citizens that can't be trusted.  But there is something more than that.  There is Islam as a religion that's exceptional, that produces people  that go on to represent the Prophet ﷺ in the most beautiful of ways.  And there's a saying from Omar radiyaAllahu ta'ala anhu where he said,  كونوا دعاتاً لله وأنتم صامتون.  Be callers to Allah even as you are silent.  And they asked him how, he said, with your husnul khuluq, with your good character.  Alhamdulillah, you know, this is a very distinguished honor for me  to be able to introduce a friend, a brother, and an inspiration.  The title of this session today is Speaking Through Service.  Alhamdulillah, we've had the opportunity to feature some people at Confident Muslim  that we felt like deserved to be not just recognized or celebrated but emulated in their work.  And this brother, my dear friend and brother Rami Nashashibi,  who I don't believe has been to the Ikhlaq Convention yet,  has done incredible work, particularly in Chicago.  And it's not just him but his entire organization that have truly spoke the sunnah through service.  Dr. Rami Nashashibi is the executive director of the Inner City Muslim Action Network, known as IMAN.  He's a MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow and a 2018 Opus Prize Laureate.  He received a PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago  and has taught courses at multiple universities since,  including a teaching appointment at the Chicago Theological Seminary.  If you look up the work of Rami and the work of IMAN as a collective, as an organization,  you will see the way that they have taken Islam in the most beautiful way  to the most uncomfortable spaces in a way that brings not just the best of the Muslim community  or shines Islam in the best of ways, but truly does great hard work for the community.  And so inshallah ta'ala we're going to play a video about what IMAN does  and then I'm going to welcome to the stage Dr. Rami Nashashibi to Confident Muslim.  Jazakum Allah khair.  IMAN, the inner city Muslim Action Network  December 2nd, 2017 was an extraordinary night.  It was our 20th anniversary dinner.  People were happy, they were celebrating, and they left that event really inspired  by the knowledge that this work was making an impact on the lives of thousands in our neighborhoods.  The intersection of North Avenue and Harlem Saturday night,  witnesses say someone fired at least eight rounds into an SUV,  stopped at a red light, killing a 23-year-old man and injuring his female passenger.  That night, Rami got a call from Billy telling him that Stephen had been shot.  It was almost too surreal for me to hear this information  because it was only maybe four months that I got that same type of information about my own son.  You know, he was only two years younger than my son.  He was the first guy that I recruited into the program.  So, you know, it was like losing my son all over again.  I'm living a life of destruction.  I was going in the wrong way, and I'm young.  I'm 23 years old.  I've been shot multiple times.  I did five years in jail, so I didn't know nothing outside of that.  So if I didn't have him calling me every day and letting me know that it's going to be all right,  you know, it's a lot you could take from this program.  Those of us who are blessed to know Stephen in the short period of his life  met a remarkable man, a brother that goes way beyond what they try to describe in the media.  The day after Stephen was killed, every major newspaper said virtually the same thing.  Chicago, deadly gun violence.  Another Black kid killed in a gang-related homicide in Chicago.  All o…

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