City of Residence:
Roseville, MN
Occupation:
Retired Agronomist at the University of Minnesota
Excerpt:
“Well, the greatest achievement we have I believe, from my heart, that we have too many mosques, but we don’t have unity among all this communities. But this is achievement that everyone can go to pray in his place, which is about like, one mile or two miles away from his place. I think this is a great achievement because the rules in Minnesota here, you have to have a church every two miles. This is the rules. And nowadays when I see that we have 56 mosques in Minneapolis and St. Paul alone, OK, I think this is a great achievement.
There are people fighting for one big place in Minnesota. I said, well, this one big place probably if we are in these good-weather state, that would be more meaningful. But because we have bad weather and people want to pray in close to their homes, then I feel like this number of mosques, it will benefit the community more than if we have centrally located one mosque.
If you want to serve Muslim community, I would recommend you education, education, and education. Don’t stop because education never stops, even if you finish your PhD degree. Try to educate yourself more and more and more because this is the only—make the Muslim people prosper in this country would be education. And also, because if you are a very well educated, then you be worship God more intensely and more faithfully because you understand the power and make you believe more in God.”
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