Omar Suleiman
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And so he's running around jogging and waving to everybody in the streets of Louisville, Kentucky.
Then he gets to the cemetery and he says he flies into the heavens.
So his dream, and he had this dream years ago,
I mean, if you look at his funeral, it's such a beautiful, you can't make it up.
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.
And then when he gets to the cemetery, the gates close and he goes off to be with his Lord.
I think Khabib represents
First of all, he is a great person, a humble person.
He's shown, and now Islam as well, kind of following in that.
They're really showing the beauty of faith in their lives, their culture, their values.
Everything from the way that he carried himself in a principled way.
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.
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.
It really is inspiring.
Growing up, we had Hakeem Olajuwon in the 1990s, basketball, who was fasting in the NBA.
I think Habib is that for a lot of people, a lot of young people today and people in general.
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.
That's a beautiful part of Islam.
That's a beautiful part of our value system.