Today, my heart is heavy. A dear friend, Razeen, was found dead in a guest house in Hulhumalé.
For decades, he battled severe substance addiction. Yet addiction was never the whole story. I knew Razeen as one of the kindest human beings I have ever met. If you needed help, he would be there. He would go above and beyond without expecting anything in return. Beneath the addiction was a beautiful soul who deserved more than the life he ended up living.
His death forces me to ask a painful question: how many more Razeens must we lose before we admit that we have failed a generation?
We celebrate world-class bridges, airports, reclaimed islands, special economic zones, and glittering cities. Infrastructure matters. Development matters. But what is the value of our progress if thousands of our young people are drowning in addiction, despair, trauma, and hopelessness while we look the other way?
A nation's greatness is not measured only by the structures it builds. It is measured by the lives it saves, the people it restores, and the hope it gives to those who have lost their way.
Today, I do not remember Razeen for his addiction. I remember him for his heart - kindness and love.
May Allah forgive his shortcomings, envelop him in His infinite mercy, and grant strength and patience to everyone who loved him.
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un.
The criminal, disgraceful murderers of the martyred Leader, whose names are fully documented from the highest to the lowest ranks, will carry their dream of a peaceful death in bed to the grave.
🗣️Tucker Carlson:
“I had an experience that I know may offend some people, but it was real. I was recently on a flight in the Middle East when I saw a 70-year-old Muslim man praying on his prayer mat while everyone else was asleep.
I thought to myself: a man who takes time in the middle of a flight to acknowledge that he is not God and to bow before his Creator… I don’t think that man is my enemy on a deeper level.”
seeing this poultry farmer lose thousands of chickens to the lagos flood made me reflect on something very important
pay attention;
if you were starting a business in africa, you shouldn’t start with a product. you should start with a system failure cos africa is not poor, africa is just poorly optimized.
we don’t just have business problems, we have infrastructure problems, logistics problems, drainage problems, electricity problems, insurance problems and trust problems. this farmer didn’t lose cos people stopped eating chicken, demand is still there. the loss came cos a broken system turned a natural event into a financial disaster.
this is why i keep saying the biggest opportunities in africa are not always in what people buy. they’re in fixing the friction that prevents businesses from surviving and growing.
anyone can sell a product but few people build systems that make products reliably reach customers, protect businesses from avoidable losses and create trust at scale. the entrepreneur who solves those system failures doesn’t just build a company, they build an economy around themselves.
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