our program just would like to say i'm roberta webb daughter as she can all be half of the muslim student association of the university of pennsylvania in collaboration with the islamic cultural preservation information council and the co sponsors of this tonight's event the mayor's office of faith based community initiative american society of muslims in the tri state of delaware valley area and the pennsylvania humanities council the grace and whose portion is not wrath and who go now to show me so we know that you didn't come to hear me nor the persons that will follow me so we're going to move right on along with the program and the first person that i would like to call to the stage would be our brother nick tell of pharaoh who was the director of the mayor's office of grapes based community initiative it is such a privilege to live in a world to live in a society where we are in it together and one continuous fabric of humanity and brotherhood with people of diverse backgrounds people of diverse persuasions can come together and well together in peace and as we did live and well under the shadow of the scourge of warfare i'm grateful today to be able to stand on behalf of this great city and to welcome to see that the people of god drawn up be persuaded by a strong trust that the law will still bring to his people not only success but peace and come together in a place like this here a man like  speaker this evening a man w d muhammad on behalf of this city we have a good mayor the city of brotherly love and sisterly affection we do greet you and we extend the warm welcome to you represents the muslim students association of the university of pennsylvania for themselves they're both in the audience and the president of the m s a is behind sitting up here but i am going to say a few words and we have the chaplains office of the university of pennsylvania and the  chaplain william gibson as well as the pin religious community council and they are part of the effort that really establishes an idea  should take hold of so that we can have a legitimate reason for being here because we're at a point and the convergence of elements and human society where no one can get a free ride anymore so you're here on a university campus and they claim to be one of the most academically driven places in the world and i encourage you to take advantage of the time that you're here because all of us have a responsibility all of us have a lot of heavy lifting to do and i know and speaking of  the university but they don't do entertainment they don't do shows when they have settings of this nature is to benefit you you get information you get knowledge to good wisdom and you get a response ability or charge to carry it out so why you're here this evening relax open up your hearts open up your mind and when you leave take to get a benefit and commit liberating with guidance from god is mentioned as one who comes to purify the people to lead them to purity and to teach them the book and the real happy and to be here in the city of philadelphia again city that i think of as home cos i was a young man just got married and my father sent me here to be a resident minister and i lived in the home of those danny pearl and her husband and they treated me so nicely i enjoyed all the love that they had for my father they didn't have him so they gave it to me and we are invited to address you here on the campus of penn state university here in philadelphia we are grateful to all of those who supported this event dr brother  from the environment and he had to deal with this also on the enemy of man and are the enemy of the human soul that's the devil to hate on bacon and christianity shit on and islamic for the whole family of mankind can enjoy peace is a not a week peace is not a week peace is not the peace that we see and think of when we think of all pious man who we are thankful for this invitation i repeat and i continue christianity judaism and islam our sister communities would be surprised how much alike we are and what god ask of us as communities on this are very much alike although we have some very very sharp differences and we believe the author of the three books is the creator of everything in the sky human beings and all living things all we share th although these books are separated by their differences the three books have the same prophets except for maybe one or two exceptions we have the same same human history marley focus public from one go to these religious represent progression or a continuation and that's exactly what mohammad the prophet where the peace be upon him wanted us to know that he did not bring anything new he said i bring nothing new god told him to say this is no new movie put together revelation it is a continuation a continuation and an explanation and an explanation that this is the nature of the bible too i am a student of the bible as well this is the nature of the bible too if you read genesis and you read from dennis is on up to the revival all the way to revelation your reading of things that occur in the history of human evolution the evolution of the spirit in the intellect the evolution of the spiritual life and the intellect you are reading what occurred in the being influenced are the same in that respect universal and the muslim book are the same as you find in the list of universal appearing in early sacred scriptures what do the scriptures universal and we should think of our religion as a religion in competition some bitter competition in the us jealous competition with jews and christians all with judaism in h as man man grows on the earth as a human family that is and i say man and mean the human family as a human family roles on earth and experience difficulties have to learn and experience difficulties and make progress the more progress we make and the more we have connected around the world the more we venture out from our small corridors and connect with one another the more we bring about a world that has to look at me universals when people are separated like we were before this coverage of this part of the world not knowing these two big continents over here north and south america we had not connected completely with our own so a family a man hadn't discovered his own self man had to discover himself in the various quarters of the world but none of that we have discovered ourselves in the various part of the world we now connect and we have to be connected we have to know one another better so we can understand one another better and so we can work in support the good of the other self as well as our own good process we are one family and we're living in this one world so what i'm saying is that natural phenomena the natural growth of life and the natural world of transportation media everything that brings us to be one in communication connected in one communication sit by one communication system this has made it possible for us now to look at mankind as a family for the first time but look how long it was ago hundreds of years ago  ago who knows maybe many thousand years ago that god revealed to man that man is one family he had not yet known all of his brothers and sisters around the globe he had not known that they even existed but god told him man is one family and now that this world is populated by all of us and we are connected and the media is has brought us into one living room so to speak where we see what's happening all around the world even in the back alleys in the back back back would areas we can see what's happening everywhere to mankind we have to have to accept that we are one family and want the same for our brother that we  cloak of the neighbor he says god pressed him so much regarding concern for his neighbor that he saw his neighbor was going to inherit him that's a saying of our prophet mohammed the prophet the last pro be upon him and believe me i heard that years ago but the more i look at what's happening in the world today the more i see that having real great relevance it has a great relevance more relevance to me now than ever did before and i heard it years ago when i see that our neighbor is our country mia and country from wherever human beings are populated those are human neighbors and we have to care about them like we care found so we can't live apart anymore and think that we can work for our selfish interests on particular interests and not work also for the interests of the whole so these religions are bigger than we think they he hesitated to take me to continue to walk me to the door he stopped and he said you know in the moment he said islam is a religion of universals and i told him yes i agree and i want to say that's what i'm all about that's what brought me to be alive in my mind is spirit and that's where i remember my father preaching you know and you're a lot of you are looking at your faces i know you knew my father and i'm happy to see you here he was here be happy to see you do you know that my father passed and several one hundred seventy five and he used to say i'm a little boy and i guess i can recall sitting years i didn't even know my father in my house until i was about thirteen years old thirteen yes mark thirteen so i had to have been about thirteen years old maybe thirty i could have been twelve saw was that drawing on that board and it said islam freedom justice equality and i understood that because i understood the african american people and our needs are lost good that we were