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Assalam Alaikum – Greetings of Peace.
I have been invited to speak as a keynote speaker at the New Zealand Muslim Community Leaders Symposium: Strategizing a future focus on the 20th of January. The title of my presentation is “Waqaf and Social enterprise as a tool for socio-economic development” and I will speak at 3.45pm New Zealand time.
Many of you have asked me for the schedule for the Leadership Symposium. I attach the PDF document.
Many New Zealand high profile people will attend including Ministers. Please try to attend as this is probably the most important symposium for New Zealand Muslims that
• brings together Muslim Community Leaders representing different ethnicities to have a strategic discussion and develop actions, which should lead to community harmony, social inclusiveness, and valuing ofdiversity.
• the symposium takes a future-focus to identify national level opportunities and challenges facing the Muslim New Zealanders and how these could be addressed. The symposium should identify both short and long term community needs and deliberate on it. It should initiate a comprehensive plan to develop social cohesion within different ethnicities with specific emphasis on gender equality, women, youth and elderly. The symposium will focus on a comprehensive development, based on Strategic planning.
• the symposium aims to focus on discussions and interactions which should lead to a people driven vision for the community.
It is very important that New Zealand Muslims have a voice. The planned outcomes are as follows:
• for New Zealand Muslim Community Leaders: improved understanding of community strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and obstacles, success criteria and actions for active contribution to the New Zealand Society; increased ability to repeat this process with their own groups on an ongoing basis;
• for New Zealand Society: improved socio-economic outcomes for the Muslim New Zealanders should result from the implementation of the actions conceptualised at the Symposium.
• increased awareness amongst the New Zealand Muslim Community Leaders to adopt a strategy development process with their own Regional Groups in future.
• this will help the community to move in a right direction to have a bright future along with the wider community.
As always - I stress that waqf is for the benefit of everyone - both Muslims and non-Muslims.
Please keep me in your prayers that I can convey the beauty of waqf and Islamic Social Entrepreneurship well.