For all the talk about institutions, we sometimes forget it is our people who make these insitutions what they are.

The strength of our community is not measured by the strength of our personal, business or even community balance sheets. Our community is special because of the dedicated, hardworking and selfless volunteers, whether these volunteers serve in the foreground or background. We cannot thank them enough for their services and only Allah (swt) will bless them for their work. It is a fact that our community could not function without them.

We need to ask ourselves how we can now progress further and how we can develop each other. In my mind, in order to strengthen our community, we will need to nurture and invest in our people. And by our people, I mean all our people – not just any select group.

To achieve this, we must stop thinking of our young people as leaders of tomorrow – they are in fact the leaders of today. With this in mind, I want to empower young people of our community to lead the Secretariat departments because I truly believe there are many talented and skilled young people in our community who would be outstanding in these roles. I will, as one of my first goals, attempt to appoint or ask the Conference to elect at least one fully capable youth as an Office Bearer of The World Federation, to ensure our young people are promoted at the highest levels of our community’s leadership.

We must also fully involve the female members of our community in our community’s institutions. The women of our community have so much talent and experience which is not being recognised. I want more women at the highest levels of community leadership – as Councillors and at the Secretariat departments. I also want to encourage every region and every jamaat to promote more female participation.

Ultimately, we need to bring an end to the closed circles culture - which has prevailed in our community, despite the valuable efforts of many to eliminate it. Every individual should and must have a chance to serve our community. A lot of work has been done to achieve this, but we are still a long way away from the ideal system - where leaders are chosen according to their talents and skill and not according to who they know, where they’re from, their age or gender.

I am working on detailed policies in my manifesto on how to make voluntary opportunities accessible to all and how to develop our commnity's biggest asset - our people.

But, I want to hear YOUR thoughts too…

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