Omar Suleiman

God describes faith in the Quran, in the chapter of Abraham, peace be upon him, as a tree with firm foundations.

The firm foundation being the testimony of faith, the oneness of God.

So the tree of monotheism with firm foundations.

and then branches high in the sky, providing shade to everything and everyone around you and producing fruit at all times.

The tree of faith of a Muslim is not seasonal.

So you should be producing with your faith at all times, good works and things that people can actually experience.

And I think that Muslims have historically contributed to the world around them.

And I think that Muslims today are still contributing to the world around them, but I think that we can never do enough of holding ourselves accountable to the message that we hold dear to our hearts and trying to be the best representatives of that message and of that messenger to the world around us.

The Colleyville...

synagogue situation, it's kind of surreal that we're coming up on a year of that.

But I'll actually tell you exactly what happened that morning.

I was out with the family and that morning, I kid you not, that very morning I was telling my kids the story of Muhammad Ali, talking that man out of committing suicide off the roof.

And I showed them the YouTube video.

My wife pulled it up on her phone.

Kids were sitting in the back seat.

We talked about that video and talked about that importance of helping people.

We also went to visit a loved one in the cemetery that day.

And we went to breakfast.

So we're out as a family that day, right?

And there's a lot of meaning that's sort of coming together for us and a lot of discussion, deep discussion we're having as a family.