Ahmed Kasir lived only nineteen years; Ruben worked hard alongside his father in a foreign land.
Only a few months passed between his return to Lebanon and his death.
Ahmed did not need years of experience to achieve what he did.
Nor did he rely on an organizational platform, established position, or significant resources to reach the top.
The philosophy behind it was simple. The question he sought to answer was short:
What can I, as a normal person, do?
And the answer was of a magnitude that sent shockwaves throughout the region and turned its balance of power.
This journey was, remains and always will be built on the individual.
Immersion in the wider movement and belonging to an organization must never eliminate the space for personal initiative that each of us has.
Our commitment to our duties will never cause us to forget the divine responsibility placed upon each of us: to constantly seek what we can contribute, whatever the circumstances in which we find ourselves.
Ahmed was an ordinary human being, just like so many of our young people today.
Set aside the attempts of certain historians to surround him with the aura of a 'legend'.
There was nothing in Ahmed's life story that resembled the extraordinary biographies of fictional heroes.
He could have just continued to live like anyone else, and today he might have had children and grandchildren of his own.
No one expected anything out of the ordinary from him, and no one would have blamed him if he had done nothing.
But Ahmed, quite simply, had the courage to ask himself:
what can i do
He saw everything he was able to do as a responsibility entrusted to him by God, and he acted upon it... ".
—. By Sheikh Mujtaba Kasir.