Went to Essequibo On the 13th and 14th to promote the brochures & dvds. Met a brother from Imam Bacchus, a lady named Aisha that runs a spare parts store, a rice farmer (wonderful brother) who gave us dinner & breakfast, a Moulana who gave the khutbah at Affiance masjid, a brother from Toronto who bought a few Palestinian dvds, a brother who runs a restaurant in Affiance.

On the 16th, the day my son's school reopened, I had a meeting with Fazeel Feroze from CIOG. He wants to run the brochures in the newspapers and maybe restart a dinner/dvd show once a month. I am hoping that the CIOG helps financially to get a once a week one-hour TV programme going. He is supposed to get back to me in 2 weeks.

A prominent businessman gave a substantial donation for printing the brochures. Another gave his third annual donation. One can only thank them and Allah who blessed their hearts with the understanding that money should be used for promoting good here on earth. Money will have no value on the Day of Judgment or in Paradise. So the wise thing to do is to use it for good & useful causes. Storing it away in a bank is obviously not a good investment.

On Friday 20th the new principal requested a meeting with me. He wants to hear my ideas that can push the school to another level. I mentioned khanacademy.com (he never heard of it) as a website that must be used by the school.

GIT called on Friday evening to invite me to their convention at Zeeburg on May 6th. Have decided to go, inshaAllah.

Also a brother this week has pledged $50000 to purchase a booth at Guyexpo in Sep. for me to promote the brochures.

A wonderful week by the grace of the Almighty.

Watched a Hamza Yusuf video on Poetry. Very interesting ideas as usual from one so intellectually gifted. Leart that Aisha memorized 12000 lines from a poet. There are some Muslims who are against poetry because the Quran & the Prophet (p) condemned some poets & poetry. They in the unmistaken belief have then condemned ALL poetry.