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Amr Khaled: Awakening the Giant

Assalam Alaikum wa rahmat Allah.
Peace be upon you dear visitor.

Amr Khaled, the 38-year-old Egyptian televangelist became more famous and popular among the Arab-Muslim world since he started airing his program entitled “Sunnaa ul-Hayah (Life Makers)” on February 2004 through Iqraa TV channel. Like many Arabs and Muslims youth worldwide, I known more about him since then, and mashallah the man is great simply because he has a real vision about what Islam is; not only a religion but rather a system that urges Muslims to urbanize Earth in order gain reward from The Almighty Allah (swt).

Amr Khaled: Awakening the Giant

His program – or better called revival project – passed through three development stages since started:

1. Stage I = Breaking the Shackles;
2. Stage II = Taking Off;
3. Stage III = Projects of Renaissance.

These stages found responses and reactions from many Arabs and Muslims youth worldwide as they start establishing life makers teams in order to contribute in different projects suggested within Amr Khaled’s program and since then you can find them in Arab world, Europe, Candada, and USA.

This reflects how Amr Khaled is playing an important role for awakening the giant of understanding among Arab-Muslim youth in order to achieve the noble goal of urbanizing Earth that Islam encourages and hence reaching a better world in the 21^st century. Moreover, his popularity is also reflected on the internet according to amrkhaled.net’s alexa statistics which tells about how his website is listed within the top 500 during the year 2005 which is a good progress, mashallah.

I am very thankful for The Almighty Allah (swt) – GOD – that I knew about him and I think such thankfulness is common among many Arabs and Muslims youth worldwide for the reasons elaborated before in the previous paragraph. Nevertheless, you still find people who criticize Amr Khaled for reasons that are out of this post’s scope since I elaborated elsewhere in another post.

This humble blog entry is not enough to talk about Muslim Intellectuals like Amr Khaled; however I want to clarify that my reflections about him are not because of being fan but rather because he succeeded in gaining respect since he has something to present for this ummah and youth. In other words, it is a matter of actions that made him beloved and popular among millions of Arabs and Muslims worldwide as Amr Khaled helped in awakening their giant of better understanding.

Amr Khaled Website Logo

On the other hand, I-MAG Magazine followed up with him within the ‘Life Makers section’ where the conceptual idea of his program was introduced in the 1^st Issue (February 2005) and inshallah future issues shall introduce some of the Life Makers worldwide in order to highlight on there efforts. You can follow this over I-MAG Magazine issues.

Additionaly, the chance is still there to participate if you wish where you can:

• Follow the program arid at Iqraa TV every Tuesday at 8:00 PM GMT;
• Participate within the forum to see what’s going on;
• His website – or better called gateway – has everything about him and the program;
• If you do not know Arabic, you still can know about him by visiting DaralIslaamLive.com

Finally, I am ending this post with duaa (supplication) from the bottom of my heart that May Allah reward Amr Khaled for awakening the giant of Life Makers worldwide and bless all what they do, Amen!

2010 update: Amr Khaled earned the doctorate degree (Ph.D) at the University of Wales, Lampeter in May 2010. Congratulations!

Salam

« photo/logo credits: (facebook.com/AmrKhaled) – (amrkhaled.net) »

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Categories: Islam
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