00:15A.I. generated disinformation, dressed up in the vocabulary of grievance, now reaches hundreds
00:24of millions of young people at a scale and speed no sermon ever could.
00:34The argument for division is being won by voices we do not control, on platforms we do
00:44not own, in a language we have been too slow to learn.
00:48Listen, young people today are asking fundamental questions, where do I belong?
00:56Who can I trust?
00:58What values still matter?
01:02What future are we building together?
01:05There are close to 1.8 billion young people on this earth.
01:11Our own Ummah, the Muslim Ummah, is younger still.
01:14The median age of Muslims worldwide is around 24, against a global median of roughly 30, making
01:28Muslims the youngest of all faith communities on earth.
01:33Let our gathering be a commitment to mentorship, to partnership and to practical action.
01:40Let us build spaces where young people of different faiths and backgrounds can meet one another,
01:46as fellow citizens and as fellow human beings.
01:49Let us equip them to speak truthfully, to listen generously and to lead courageously.
01:56To young people present, I would like to stress this above all.
01:59Do not allow anyone to convince you that the dignity of your faith depends on diminishing the dignity of another.
02:09As the Holy Quran makes abundantly clear,
02:12Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, had he so will, have made us into all into a single community, one religion,
02:21one race and one nature.
02:24But he chose otherwise and instructed us instead to compete with one another in goodness.
02:31The future of our faith and co-existence between every tradition represented in this hall will not be secured by
02:40one generation alone.
02:43It will be secured when wisdom and youth walk together, when sacred traditions open hearts,
02:49when inherited values are renewed through living action and when harmony is carried forward not as a fragile slogan but
02:58as a shared discipline.
03:03In an age of fragmentation, co-existence becomes an act of courage.
03:09In an age of cynicism, radical hope becomes resistance.
03:15And in an age of noise, perhaps the greatest gift these traditions of ours can offer is Sakina,
03:23the grounded peace from which compassion, trust and genuine belonging can grow.
03:30Our task is not to manage the diversity of this world.
03:34It is to help humanity remember how to belong to one another again.
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