Anab Hassan

[Safiyya Datti @Safiyyah_Datti]

Who’s interested in doing a three month intense Quran and Arabic course in medina? (Female only)

[Anab Hassan @canabeeto]

People are rarely what they seam.#LookBeyondTheSurface

[Anab Hassan @canabeeto]

Seeing seeks insight n understanding. In everyday language we say"do u c what i mean?." Understanding is the process of creating meaning. Meaning requires that we bring something into sharper focus.

[Mohammed Hersi : Mr Optimist @mohammedhersi]

South Africa Is Playing With Fire

Boardrooms are now battlegrounds. Activists are marching into corporate offices across South Africa demanding that "foreigners" pack up and leave.

President Cyril Ramaphosa @CyrilRamaphosa this cannot stand and here's why it's not just wrong, it's dangerously short-sighted. Please ask yourself does South Africa know how deeply it is embedded in the rest of this continent?

✅️1. MTN carries hundreds of millions of subscribers across Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Rwanda, Côte d'Ivoire, and beyond a South African company thriving on African soil that isn't its own. @MTNza

✅️2. Absa now earns nearly a third of its group profit from outside South Africa — Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Uganda, Zambia, Tanzania and is still acquiring more African banks as we speak. @Absa

✅️3.Standard Bank remains the continent's largest bank by assets, moving trillions of rand through African economies every single year. @StandardBankZA

✅️4. MultiChoice/DStv has for decades been the dominant gatekeeper of entertainment and information across dozens of African households.

✅️5. Sanlam and Old Mutual manage insurance and pension savings for millions of East and West Africans.

✅️6. Nandos, Steers, and Debonairs feed households across Kenya, Nigeria, Zambia, and Uganda.

✅️7. Bidvest and Imperial Logistics run supply chains that keep goods moving through multiple African economies.

✅8. ️Then there's tourism an industry South Africa depends on heavily, and where the hypocrisy cuts sharpest. Hospitality groups like Tsogo Sun, City Lodge, and Sun International have expanded into Zambia, Nigeria, and beyond. South African Airways, Airlink, and a web of SA-based travel companies have spent decades marketing Cape Town, Kruger, and the Garden Route to the rest of the continent and Africans have answered in huge numbers. Kenyans, Nigerians, Ghanaians, and others fill Sandton hotels, Table Mountain cable cars, and Kruger safari lodges every year, injecting real foreign currency into the South African economy.

So which is it? Do you want African wallets in your tills and African bodies in your hotel beds, but not African faces in your boardrooms?

Now imagine just for a moment Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, or Ghana adopting the same logic. Boardrooms in Lagos or Nairobi staging walk-ins demanding MTN executives leave, Absa hand back its banking licenses, or Kenyan immigration quietly discouraging South African tourists from checking into Mombasa or Diani hotels. The fallout for South Africa would be instant and brutal and tourism, banking, and telecoms would be the first casualties, not the last.

This is the essence of glass houses and stones. You cannot build a continental empire in banking, telecoms, insurance, and tourism, and then slam the door on that same continent's citizens the moment it's convenient at home. It's worth remembering South Africa's most celebrated exports thrive precisely because other nations didn't gatekeep opportunity by passport.

Trevor Noah built a global career from a studio in New York. Elon Musk, born in Pretoria, built his fortune in Silicon Valley and Texas. Both benefited from economies that judged them on merit, not nationality. @Trevornoah @elonmusk

If Africa responds to South Africa's boardroom nativism with mirrored nativism, no one wins least of all South Africans working, investing, and building across this continent.

Mr. President, this is a fire worth putting out before it spreads.

As always, I choose to remain an optimist.

Mohammed Hersi
A true African patriot at heart

[BookNote @BookNoteApp]

7 books to change your life around in a day:

1) The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

[Dr. Sh. Haifaa Younis @DrHaifaaYounis]

Keep remembering the death. It will calm you down. Because everything that gets us upset is about Dunya.

[Mr. Mohamed Muse @MohamedMuse9]

It’s a huge accomplishment in 2 months, I have invested efforts to researching, writing, revising, and formatting papers, and it really shows who writing a policy paper with such quality requires research, critical thinking, clarity, and persistence. Congratulations to myself.

[• @Rohi_Alii]

I'm so in love with this quote:

"When the replacement from Allah arrives, you will forget what you lost"

Sabr always

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

Keep your tongue safe from speaking about others.

You’ll have fewer regrets not only in the hereafter, but in this life as well.

And if others speak about you to humiliate you, know that Allah will honor you not only in the hereafter, but before long, in this life as well.

[Madam President @hooyoanisa]

From learing* to Dr. Anisa Haji. 🎓

It’s not where you start, it’s where you finish. I stayed true to my faith, proudly wore my hijab, and earned my doctorate. Alhamdulillah, proud to be among the 4% of Americans with a doctorate.

[Olimba @GasoulstarSmith]

I have fallen in love with Mr. Baldwin's work. He one of the greatest intellects of my lifetime. If you haven't read this book, please do.

[Janet Machuka @janetmachuka_]

YouTube Documentaries to Watch

1. Inside The Illegal Digital Arms Trade: Weapons For Profit — Witness Documentary

2. Dangerous Apps: In The Web of Data Brokers — DW Documentary

3. How Israel's Shadow War On Iran Ended In Open Conflict — Al-Jazeera

4. The Dark Story of Cadbury — Lost Grandeur

5. Putin, The Godfather: Mafia, Corruption and Absolute Power | World Documentary

6. The Drug Mule Scam: Trafficked: Underworlds With Mariana Van Zeller — Nat Geo

7. Too Rich to Live: Why are Russia's Billionaires Dying? —ENDEVR

8. The World's Most Extreme Cults — Vice

[No filter Skin @NoFilterSkin]

In college, I sat next to a girl who knitted through an entire 3-hour lecture.

Click. Click. Click.

Never once looked up at the professor.
Just yarn. Just needles. The whole time.

I judged her immediately.
"Why even show up if you're just going to do crafts?"

[Dr. Sh. Haifaa Younis @DrHaifaaYounis]

Life as a woman isn’t easy, but Allahﷻ promises: “Allah will not burden a soul beyond what it can handle.” [AL Baqarah: 286]. That means Allahﷻ only gives you what you’re strong enough to carry.

[Anab Hassan @canabeeto]

Sincerity is far preferable to pretense. opinions be researched n learned from, n emotions can be challenging when strong opinions are voiced. Avoid being snared in the other's mad, sad,afraid or ashamed emotions n see if you can be content with listening n glad to learn.

[Anab Hassan @canabeeto]

Even though many disagreements may remain, a point of intersection can launch collaboration, creating a new foundation of trust that helps to resolve other differences.

[Anab Hassan @canabeeto]

Finding where our interests intersect is a product of empathy, n it reveals a lot. If i treat your view as legitimate as mine,then i can genuine ask “where do we agree? what do we have 2 give one another? what possibility lives at the intersection?”

[The Lady Of Jannah @BeingMuneerah]

Omar Suleiman in one of his Ramadan series episode said;

If Allah can be patient, waiting for you to return to Him and doesn’t punish you immediately after you commit a sin, why can’t you be patient with His plans and trust Him over your own desires?

[Shoko Noda @shokonoda]

I met displaced women in Somalia recently who told me they wanted jobs & livelihoods, & not depend on aid forever.

Access to finance is helping them achieve that.

@UNDP & partners continue to lay the groundwork for 🇸🇴's peace & stability.

https://t.co/FkPyhhfPGT

@UNDPSomalia

[Anab Hassan @canabeeto]

R you the superior leader or the connected leader? One that puts superior people in charge n follow their instructions or one that puts most connected people in charge n count on them to understand challenges, inspire commitment n coordinate contribution.