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Omar Suleiman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

And so he's running around jogging and waving to everybody in the streets of Louisville, Kentucky.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

Then he gets to the cemetery and he says he flies into the heavens.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

So his dream, and he had this dream years ago,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

I mean, if you look at his funeral, it's such a beautiful, you can't make it up.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

It's such a beautiful moment where it seems to come to reality because everybody in Louisville just comes out and just waves by to his casket.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

And then when he gets to the cemetery, the gates close and he goes off to be with his Lord.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

I think Khabib represents

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

First of all, he is a great person, a humble person.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

He's shown, and now Islam as well, kind of following in that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

They're really showing the beauty of faith in their lives, their culture, their values.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

Everything from the way that he carried himself in a principled way.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

You know, like every Muslim kid grew up in a public school cafeteria before Islamic schools were a thing in the United States, not eating pork, for example, and kind of being the odd person out.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

So when you got a fighter in the UFC scene and doesn't drink alcohol, kind of maintains like a very consistent, principled, you know, attachment to his religion.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

It really is inspiring.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

Growing up, we had Hakeem Olajuwon in the 1990s, basketball, who was fasting in the NBA.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

I think Habib is that for a lot of people, a lot of young people today and people in general.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

And I think beyond that, the values, how he honored his father and how he honors his mother and how he continues to put family first.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

That's a beautiful part of Islam.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#352 โ€“ Omar Suleiman: Islam

That's a beautiful part of our value system.