It’s been an interesting trip so far. Just to sum up what’s happened so far:

• Fiqh of Love with Sh. Waleed Basyouni is definently original and eye opening
• Recording of the first weekend has been an almost complete disaster - which has led to a fairly successful start for the recording of Ilm Week.
• I had Popeye’s for the first time in Toronto - First experience was..okay. The second experience made me gag, almost puke and killed my appitite.
• Finished up “Tribes” by Seth Godin - Excellent book
• Started “The Whuffie Factor” by Tara Hunt - really good book so far 
• Witnissed Yasir Qadhi’s conversion story and change of methodology - see: http://muslimmatters.org/2009/05/18/yasir-qadhi-my-conversion-admitting-ones-mistake-and-moving-on/

One of the major highlights of the trip so far has been meeting the people heading up AlMaghrib in the UK. Really nice bunch of guys. They relayed the following to me via email in the past and in person again here:

I have been meaning to write this email for a while…

I believe Belal deserves a huge amount of credit for AlMaghrib expanding at the rate it has in the UK. His trailers have captivated the UK audience and many dawah organisations call me and ask me for the details of who makes AlMaghrib trailers. And many have copied Belal’s style of trailer to advertise on the Islam Channel. Company’s call Islam Channel and ask for us to make a trailer for them like AlMaghribs Mash’Allah.

And with a viewership of over 1.5 Million in the UK and a further global audience, our adverts are viewed by Millions across the globe Mash’Allah.

Without the quality trailers that Belal has made that include, Jannah, cities, Shayoukh, TSP, TB, LOG, BOC and now TBA AlMaghrib would not have had class numbers the size we have now in the UK and we would have still only been known by the practising Muslims.

However now we are known by many who are not practising and many do attend our seminars.

Therefore this email is to really say a big Jazzak’Allah khair to Belal and all the hours he has worked to ensure adverts are completed on time Mash’Allah.

May Allah (swt) accept it from you akh and increase the talents he has given you, Ameen.

Jazak’ Allah khair.
Wa Salaam

Ameen ya rabal’alameen. Any and all success my work has had is all from Allah-swt and may Allah-swt forgive me for any and all shortcoming I’ve had along the way and will have in the future.

I posted earlier in the Quarter One Review that DiscoverU is a recent client of mine and that I’m heading up the production of some of their video development for online distribution. The following are some of the videos that have been posted up so far.

I want you to respond with at least three gems you pull from these videos. I’m looking forward to reading them