"Each person has his or her own way of living a life pleasing to God." "Some will serve on the front line in the military." "Some will retreat to a life of monastic study." "In my opinion, the most important task is teaching investing in people." "Our friends will migrate to the four corners of the world." "Because of the principle that a believer's intention is more benevolent than his action, so with the most sincere intentions, they should scatter around the world." "The city of Sarajevo was under siege." "Entrance to Sarajevo was through a tunnel." "It's dark, your shoes are soaking wet, there is no air, your backpack is heavy on your shoulders." "The physical conditions were intolerable, but we were happy to reach our goal." "Our esteemed teacher Mr. Gulen sent us here to help the people." "We weren't concerned with how we were going to do it, our goal was to come here." "Bombs were dropping the war was ongoing." "I said, we may die there, we might not come back." "If we don't survive, will you do the final prayer for us?" "He got very emotional." "His eyes welled up (with tears)." "His face became solemn" "He said, "I'm not sending you there to die," "I'm sending you there to serve, to open schools." "May God be with you." "May God show you the way."" "We went to the Ministry of Education" "usually it was Ibrahim - every single day." "They would say, "what school?" "The government's about to collapse, people are miserable." "What school?"" "But we didn't give up." "We kept knocking on their door again and again." "One day they called us." "They said, "Okay, we'll give you a building for a school."" "They gave us an old Serbian military post." "With this game, we are trying to use the universal language of sports." "To convey a message to world media, and the peoples of the world" "But particularly to Muslim nations, who in silent indignation have been doing nothing but watch as spectators in an arena of fighters." "When I see Mr. Ali, with his smile, he is taking your heart." "There is no badness in him." "What do we need in the war?" "Food, drinking, just to save our life." "But they come in the war and" "And they are going to teach us." "For us it was very unbelievable." "In our school there are Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and they really teach us you cannot hate me, how much can I love you?" "Let's try to love people, and that teacher comes here and teaches us something like that." "If they didn't come here," "I would never be thinking like now." "Maybe I will hate those people from another side." "In Bosnia we play west instruments when we must sing east music." "I try adjusting east melody to European melody." "And now we have one special music." "Everything that God created is beautiful, wonderful." "We must respect everything and also music, also tones." "For example, natural music." "Birds sing." "Water have sound." "Woods have sound, wind have sound." "All life on the planet, that music be there." "And that music never be boring people." "Why?" "Because it's clean music." "That music God gives." "We live together and we sing together" "Muslims, Catholics, Orthodox." "We must respect each other." "We must respect each other's culture." "We must respect each other's religion." "Because we have only one God and He created us." "His Excellency and I we love each other." "And I'm sure no one here in the audience will be jealous of us." "When we stand side by side we will truly get to know one another" "Maybe we were raised in a culture where we deemed only our own opinions to be important." "We ignored the other side and rejected that which wasn't ours." "Perhaps in those days when we spoke our words were careless." "But today when the world is tilting towards harm we realize that we should not allow such things to happen." "When I was 15 yrs old I decided to be an engineer." "I liked that because I said that for my city an engineer would be very nice because there are lots of projects." "The most important project for me was the water project." "Nearly half of Sulaymaniyah needed that water project." "Now they get water from that." "We poured concrete from about 6:00 til 10 at night we were in here with the men and yeah..." "This project cost $30 Million dollar." "You know that here they say that engineering's not for girls." "My mother, she doesn't agree with me." "But I'm very happy now." "I like to do that." "At first the men didn't believe us here" "But now when I showed my ability and I worked, I insisted in that and said I can do it and when I showed my ability, now they can take me to that project and I now continue on that." "Seeing thousands of babies dying in Somalia moved me deeply." "That's when I decided I had to go." "I was thinking about my own children, how healthy they are, so I went there to give thanks to God Almighty." "There is no water, there is no food, and there is no medicine." "There is nothing!" "Nothing." "Only Kimse Yok Mu, in Somalia." "It was raining when we got to Somalia." "The rain was beautiful, but a little bit of a bother." "Because we had medicine in 21 boxes, we were worried that they would get soaked." "I brought a good ultrasound machine, which helps me in diagnosing and examining the patients." "We tell people the Somalis live in tents, but it's not the kind of tent you would think of." "It's a frame made of branches with a cloth on top." "I can't imagine what people do with their kids when it rains." "The situation is terrible." "She has malaria and dysentery." "Did she go to the clinic?" "Yes, she got a prescription" "Tell her to come to the clinic and we'll give her medicine." "Today I went to the biggest hospital in Mogadishu." "One of the biggest ones." "There is a patient bleeding and she needs emergency operation." " "Hold it gently, gently." "That's super." "There was a big surprise for me because there is no instruments." "And there were 3 assistants who are trained in Turkey just 3 months." ""This is a golden rule...you got it?"" "Thanks to Allah, everything was okay and finished." ""Muttalip was going to bring soap, but he didn't."" ""You think the guards would let the prisoners have soap?" "They'd keep it for themselves."" ""Muttalip, you forgot the soap again."" ""You're the medicine, Muttalip."" "Until recently they were sleeping on bare floors." "So Kimse Yok Mu brought mattresses." "We provide clothing and scented cleansing wipes." "Hizmet went to many different countries with teachers and schools." "In Somalia, doctors with Hizmet were the first to come help." "I am proud of that." "I'm not returning because I don't want to be a cause for problems there." "I don't want to be the cause of any discomfort or loss of the gains that have been made." "Even if the chance of such damage occurring were only 1 percent, this concern would be enough to keep me away." "Living at a time when people are locked to kill, murder, tyrannize and victimize," "I consider it the top priority for our human community to prevent this violence and rage as much as we can." "I pray that people live in dignity as they are meant to that they rise toward their humanistic peaks, that they embrace one another, that the goodness that Rumi sought come true, that hostility and hatred are buried deep down and rocks are placed over them" "so that they do not surface again." "This is what I pray for." "You should pray for this too."