As Salaam Wa Alaikum, Wa Rahmatullah Wa Barakatuhu. Indeed All praise is due to Allah (SWAWJ). We thank Him and in Him we seek His forgiveness. We seek the refuge with Allah, the creator of the Heavens and the earth, from the mischiefness of our souls and wrong doings of all of our actions and deeds. Whomever Allah (TA) guides no one can lead him astray. And whomever Allah (TA) leaves to be left astray no one can guide him except by the will and permission of Allah. I publicly bare witness without any compulsion or cohersion what so ever that, there is nothing worthy of worship as a except Allah, He is alone, and He has no partners. And I publicly bear witness that Muhammad Ibin Abdullah, (sullallahu alayhi wa Allah allahee wa sullem) is His Rahsool, His Abd, and His Nabiy (his messenger, His slave and the Seal of the Prophets. As to what follows…truly the best speech is the book of Allah, Al-Qur’an, Al-Majeed (the Majestic Qur’an). And the best of guidance is the Sunnah of Muhammad (saw). And the worst of all things in this life, in this Dunya as related to our Deen are newly invented matters. For every newly invented matter as related to our Deen is an occursed and wretched innovation, and every innovation is an astray and every astray is in the hellfire. After thanking and praising Allah and sending Salatul Salaams on His Prophet Muhammad (saw). I ask of Allah to forgive us of our sins and grant us good in this Dunya and the ahkyrah (the hereafter) ….ameen

Hakim Ouansafi grew up in a Morocco, an open and easy society where children of various races played and attended school together with little thought of their differences, even Arabs and Jews. When he was 21, fate brought him to America to attend college in Rhode Island, meet and marry his wife, a Vermonter, and proudly become an American citizen. Then, nine years ago, he came to Hawaii.