Week 66 - 2024 Joy & Love pt.2
Company - Saadadeen & Sulaiman welcome 2024 by introducing the first newsletter for a project Sulaiman has been watering
1 Question
Questions are powerful tools.
Tools that can foster a sense of self-respect and dignity.
When your opinion is requested, your opinion is deemed to matter.
You are deemed to matter.
Young Muslim boys in Britain want to feel like they matter. They do.
So ask them questions.
Ask them as many serious and interesting and relevant questions as you can think of.
Every week, I will share 1 question to assist you on this journey.
Since September 2023, I have been asking these types of questions to the Year 7 Muslim boys from London whom I have the honour of mentoring on a weekly basis. All praise and thanks belong to God.
My hope is that these questions lead to further questions which go on to form the basis of beautiful dialogue and connection between you and the boys in your family.
May God honour and strengthen the boys and future men of our community to achieve their full potential.
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Check out the new weekly newsletter ‘1 Question’. Designed to support Muslim parents, carers, and elder siblings unlock meaningful conversations with the teenage boys in their family.
Eyes Wide Shut
When I was young I believed I could teleport into my bed from anywhere in my house. All I had to do was close my eyes and count to ten. When I opened my eyes, lo and behold, I found myself wrapped up warm in the bottom bunk of my humble bunk bed. What actually would happen is that my mum would see me look sleepy and so would pick me up and put me in bed.
I wonder how many times have I thought that I was the reason something happened, when in fact I was just a part of a tapestry.
Watching Muslim Boys United grow from an idea in Sulaiman’s mind to witnessing it in person I have seen more clearly the importance of a community. How, at its best, it will protect you and challenge you.
How very little happens, that is worth happening, in isolation.
We can’t do this by ourselves.
This year I have learnt that there is a beauty that you only unlock when in beautiful company.
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