Mawlana Shaykh Nazim (q) sent me to Kenya. He said, "Here is some money, go and dig some wells." I went there. He sent others but they said, "We are digging this well and that well," one-by-one. When he sent me, I took five very well-known, high-level people from Kenya and gave them that as "seed money," to put it in an organization in Mawlana's name, then we collect donations, not like I gave it to someone and we don't know what happened. So I told Mawlana, "Besides digging wells, I would like to make a Ramadan Program for food for refugees, many of whom are coming from Somalia to Kenya and Uganda, and they have no money."

 

So I divided the money for the Ramadan Program, digging wells, and giving funds to an Islamic girl's school. When we did the Ramadan Program, we decided to do 2,000 boxes of food, that would cost $30,000 dollars. When people (online at sufilive.com) saw that we reached our goal of 2,000 boxes, we got another 5,000 boxes from (online) donors. They saw it was organized, so they knew the charity was going to be distributed well. That was a campaign in Mawlana Shayh Nazim's (q) name.

 And so when we began a discussion of the digging of a well, who knew it would be in Mawlana's name? We would put a musallah (designated place of prayer) by the new well and give people the Qur'an, like missionaries. We were going to build a hut. But one man said, "I can put one hut made from steel. It will fit 50 people, the cost will be $1,000 for each, and we did it. The next day, he came and said, "I saw a dream. I will offer it for free." So we put 35 wells and he offered 35 mosques for free, all under Mawlana's name! If that money was given to one person, he would have dug the well, made the food, and then would have made others cooperate. So you don't know. You can give, but give in the right hands.