 All right, welcome. If I could just have your attention for a brief moment. My name is Isata Camara, and I am the Deputy Commissioner for Policy and Strategic Initiatives in the New York City Mayor's Office for International Affairs. Thank you for saying wow. I say too. But beyond that, I am a proud Muslim member of this administration. And I am really, really happy to see all of you here, including our Consuls General and Ambassadors from the international community. First, let me be one of the first people to say Edmobarak to you all. And to say that as an administration, we're really proud to be a reflection of the Muslim community in New York. And to have a mayor that cares about our community. Our community is diverse. And Ramadan is a great reminder of the need for us to learn to forgive and to be forgiven. So I hope that through this Ramadan, you were all able to find that moment of forgiveness. And I pray that all of the blessings from Ramadan will be shared with all of us through the end of this year and through the many years that will come. So once again, Edmobarak from all of us at International Affairs. And it is my great honor and my great pleasure to introduce another sister in this administration, Dr. Sarah Said, who is the chair and executive director of the New York Civic Engagement. Thank you. Alamu alaykum everyone, Edmobarak to you and your families. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you first of all to Mayor Adams for hosting this very first Eid celebration at Gracie. I'm so inspired by all of you and the mayor, because you've really cultivated this long standing friendship with this mayor, right? And I want to thank you for all the work you've done over many, many years on so many issues, including the recognition of Eid as a holiday. It's all the work that you've done in the past that leads to moments like this. So it's a moment to feel really good about our work as a community. Every political win that we have is because it is your effort that is underlying it. And every victory that we have is a chance to celebrate. It's also a doorway into the next struggle that we have to engage in as a community. I want you all to remember that the people of New York City are on the top of the city organizational chart. Our communities have power and we have voice. Our community cares about a lot of different issues and one way to make change is by voting for candidates who care about our priorities and who prioritize the needs of the most vulnerable New Yorkers. As we get closer into the June primary, the Civic Engagement Commission, which I have the honor and privilege to run as the executive director and chair of the commission, we're going to be educating voters about the second round of ranked choice voting in the primary that's coming up in June. On May 12th specifically, we're going to be cosponsoring a language forum for Arabic speakers in Bay Ridge at PSIS 30, which will include a Civics 101 workshop. And I'm raising this because I think it's really important for us to pay attention to the language needs of our community, right? So please support this forum and organize education spaces like this for people who are limited English proficient. I also want to say that our administration is dedicated to the participation of all New Yorkers regardless of whether or not you're voting. Mayor Adams is actually, a lot of people may not know this. Mayor Adams is the first mayor ever in the history of New York to give all New Yorkers 11 and older, regardless of their citizenship status, a direct voice in the city budget. That has never happened before. And I said all New Yorkers, all New Yorkers, 11 and up can vote. The budget, as we know, is a moral statement, right? It reflects our values. And you can now have a direct say in the priorities and values that are reflected in the city budget, in your neighborhood and in your borough. Starting next week, New Yorkers will be able to vote in city-wide participatory budgeting. And you'll be able to tell Mayor Adams how you want to spend $5 million of your tax money. Please go to participates.nyc.gov and learn more about the process. Look for your ballot, for your neighborhood, for your borough, and vote. And we're going to be connecting with you all. So we're looking forward to the commission, myself, and all of my colleagues here in city government. We're looking forward to supporting your voice. And without your voice, there is no democracy. So thank you so much, and we look forward to working with you further. Asya and Atiyah, are you coming up? Thank you so much, Dr. Sara. As-salamu alaikum, everyone. And Eid Mubarak, and I hope you're enjoying here. This is our first time ever Muslim East celebration and grassy mansion, right? So this is the history like we are making with our great mayor, and we are blessed. We have a great mayor like Eric Adams. He's committed to fostering an equal and inclusive environment for all communities, especially for Muslim. So thank you so much, and Eid Mubarak to everyone. So let me introduce myself. I'm so excited because the first time I'm speaking on a grassy mansion here. And this confidence and opportunity, of course, I like took by my mayor. So thank you so much once again, mayor. And my name is Atiyah Shenaz, and I am the Muslim woman liaison in mayor office. And my work and my goal to serve my Muslim community, particularly the Muslim woman. I'm here to make a great building and great bonding between the Muslim woman and the city administration. To making sure that my woman, they get all opportunities, benefits, and resources. And I also making sure like the Muslim woman's needs and voices heard. So I'm here to support my Muslim woman and making sure and advocating to build up their skills to making our more leaders, the more Muslim women leaders in our society. And I'm so excited, also invited by the president to represent myself as a Muslim woman leadership to celebrate the Muslim Arab heritage mantra. So inshallah, I am here. I want the more Muslim woman to be here on this platform. So thank you so much, everyone who's coming here to celebrate. And this is my e-suit. And I hope everyone is aware of the e-suit too. So feel like this is your home. And I want to share one thing, also I'm from the Pakistan. And two days before I had opportunity to talk my governor. And he told me like the first time in Pakistan he opened the governor house for the Muslim women's to celebrate the Mehndi and you know like the henna and like the bangles for like that was that he was telling me and says, no, this is not the first time in America. We are used to go to the grassy mansion too many times, you know? And used to celebrate everything first time in the under the leadership of Mayor Eric Adam, the first time if the ordinar of Muslim women, the first time we celebrate the hijab day in the city hall this step. And the first time we are celebrating our Eid in the grassy mansion. So this is like, this is the time, this is the time like we are making the history and everything is like we are doing because of our great mayor, because he respects the culture, he respects the values of Muslim. He respects the hijab of Muslim women. He not respecting by himself and he making sure under his administration everyone respect is the right of freedom, the right of religion. So thank you so much everyone who is here and I hope you will enjoy and you will the mark as a historical day in your life. Thank you so much and I'm requesting to my next colleague to come and share your views. Thank you. Welcome everyone. My name is Asya Badi. I'm a senior advisor to the deputy mayor of health and human services. My deputy mayor has been tasked by the mayor to cover everything from like severe mental illness to COVID to restaurant ratings as well as you know the asylum seekers. So we cover a vast number of topics that really affect all of New Yorkers and including our Muslim community and one of the things I was really excited when they asked me to come speak was to give you all Eid greetings and say Eid Mubarak and be here to see all the diverse Muslim communities and it's really exciting and I feel so proud to be part of administration that has really reached out to all New Yorkers especially the Muslim community and brought people here, people I know and people I don't know and I'm always amazed with who we meet and so we're so lucky and blessed to be part of this. If you didn't notice these were all just women's speakers that just spoke here. We are only a fraction of the Muslim women that make up this administration and I'm so proud to be part of that administration that is uplifting diverse voices as well as women's voices. So I'm so excited. The mayor is will be here shortly. He is very excited to speak with you all and see you all. So please do continue to eat the wonderful desserts which we could not have, you know, there's no Eid party without sweets here. So please enjoy the desserts, continue to meet people and we'll see beyond shortly. Mayor will be on Charlie. Thank you. Senior advisor to the mayor, Aksan Chukdai. Assalamu alaikum. I can't hear you guys. I said assalamu alaikum, my brothers and sisters. Eid Mubarak. Let me ask people in this room, raise your hand if this is the first time you've ever been to Gracie Mansion. Mashallah. I wanted to say that and I want to show you that this is because of this mayor that we've accomplished so many firsts. And here is another first that we are celebrating Eid here in Gracie Mansion. Mashallah, we are very blessed to be here. I want to thank everybody for coming. I want to say a few words about some of the accomplishments that we have gained throughout the first two years that we are here at City Hall. Can I get everybody's attention, please? Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm sorry, I can't talk loud. Even this mic is not helping. You guys are such enthusiastic right now. This crowd is amazing. And I just want to say about our beloved mayor, our beautiful mayor, that we accomplished so many, so many firsts and this being one of them, being here in Gracie Mansion, such an honor to be here and breaking bread with all the people that are here today celebrating Eid for the first time in Gracie Mansion. So thank you for coming here, joining us. And also, I want to introduce, before we get started, I want to introduce a beautiful brother of ours. Everybody knows who this is. He needs no introduction. Let me bring in the public advocate, Jamani Williams, to please come say a few words. Salam alaikum. Eid Mubarak. So I just want to give a sound of hand clap. Inshallah, we're going to have you for many, many years. But really quick, I think y'all missed a hand clap. He said this was the first Eid in Gracie Mansion. That is a hand clap moment. So I think we need to say thank you to Mayor Eric Adams that took Mayor Eric Adams to make sure that we had the first Eid in Gracie Mansion. So I want to give him a hand clap for that. There's a lot of things going on right now in this country. It's just so great to see how far many communities have come to see the Muslim community flexing its political muscle and hopefully y'all continue to do that, flexing the civic muscle because our city would not be our city without the diversity that includes the diversity of our Muslim community. And we still have a long way to go. Unfortunately, I don't know if you heard number 45, said he'd bring the Muslim band back if he was reelected. That's kind of crazy. But we know I can't talk politics, but that ain't going to happen. So it's just very exciting to see what's happening in the city of New York. Because of what's happening in the rest of the world, we have to continue to be a beacon. And I know what we're going to do today. And as we move forward, the spirit of charity, the civility, the spirit of community service that happened to Ramadan, we're going to continue to move that forward. So I'm just honored to be here. I want to shout out Shah Mbalo for sponsoring this and the amazing work they continue to do. And let's continue to show them. People don't know, you know, from what I learned the word Muslim means to submit. And I'm sorry, the word Islam means to submit. The word Muslim means one who submits. That's something that reverberates everyone of faith. And I'm a person of faith myself. Peace and bless and love and slide to you all. Thank you so much. Please join Jomani Williams. The ladies who spoke before we got this program started, I would really, really like to get a huge applause to the working sisters in City Hall who you got a chance to hear before we even got started. Sister Asya, sister Sara, Atia. So I really want to tell you that this mayor has been very, very exclusive. We're making sure that the women of the Muslim community are empowered, not just the women community, but, you know, having senior positions such as myself, such as brother Mir Bashir, brother Bahi. And I just want to thank this mayor for giving us the opportunity to be in leading roles where we do make a difference in the Muslim community. And you guys are all testaments to this, that we are making a difference. And especially throughout the year, all the first that we had and all the first that are coming forward. And there's so many things that are in the work. Inshallah, we're going to have us on. Inshallah, we're going to have many things that are coming forward. And I would love, love to sit down. Our teams would love to sit down with any individual who has any ideas. Please let's bring them forward. Let's work together. Let's show what the Muslim community is all about. And we're here to represent New York City's ours. And thank you for coming to Gracie Mansion. Now I'd like to introduce my sister. She is the backbone of City Hall. You might not see her in papers. You might not see her anywhere, but she is our backbone. Dr. Ingrid Martin, please. Asalaamu alaikum. It's indeed a pleasure for me to be here as we celebrate our very first Eid here at Gracie Mansion. 110 mayors we've had, 110 mayors. And it took a working class brother who was born in Brooklyn and raised in Queens to recognize, yes, the importance of having this great celebration. Under the norm, I want to say one thing, my brother, Hassan, we know that Allah, God is good. We thank God, we thank Allah that he is here with us today. Last year, this time, we were all praying for him. And our prayers have been answered and multiple because he is standing before us and he is doing what he has done for so many years and in a very serene way. He has calmed down. He has lost some weight. And he has clarity of mind because when you go through the medical trauma that our brother has gone through and you spend that time in a hospital room and it's you and it's God. We know what the doctor is, but we know that the doctor of all doctor is Allah. Do we agree? It makes one have a different mindset. So I have a task that I, it's not, for me, it's not normally a task. I have the pleasure of normally introducing our mayor. But I'm going to go off track a little bit because we're talking about the first time that we are celebrating. Come on, let's hear it. Yes, let's hear it. In city hall. If you don't know, this is our highest ranking member of the Muslim community. And this is the first time that a Muslim has been a chief administrative officer in one of the highest ranking departments within city hall. The chief administrative services. So you all know Mayor Bashir, did I say it right? Bashar, he always tells me, I always mess it up. Mayor Bashar, you all know Mayor, but he has been steadfast with the mayor and with the other members of our executive team. And I don't usually relinquish my responsibility or my role, but I felt it befitting that one of our own, your brother, my brother, have what I consider to be a privilege and honor to do the introduction of our 110th mayor. So Mayor, please. Thank you. Eid Mubarak. Eid Mubarak. Okay, I'm not going to take too much time because in presence with the mayor, I'm going to introduce our, it's my pleasure to introduce our under 10th mayor, Marek Adams. Please give him a round of applause. Well, look at this crowd, Asalaamu alaykum to you all. Asalaamu alaykum. And I'm seeing so many faces that we journeyed here together. And on the campaign trail, I was very clear that you were going to see Muslims in my administration and that I was not going to disappear at the opportunity over the last Ramadan period to visit many of your mosque and celebrate Brother Bahi organized for us, for the first time, visiting a mosque and all the boroughs in the city. And to pray with you and to worship with you and just to fellowship with you. When you look at this administration, you have to see the role that my Muslim brothers and sisters played. In general, all the various groups in this city was extremely significant during this race. But when you look at Brother Bahi and Brother Asan, who were with me for so many years and reached out to many of you and said that this is our brother and we need to support him because he has been with us for so long. And they knew the story, they knew the narrative. They knew that back in 2001, when the entire community was demonized because of someone abusing Islam for their own purpose in the 9-11 attacks, when others turned their backs on the Muslim community, I turned towards the community and rallied with them and stood with them. They knew when Donald Trump put in the Muslim ban, and we organized with the Yemeni community and had one of the largest rallies to show support at Brooklyn Borough Hall, closing down the bodegas and coming out in support. They knew even when Greg Ball, go look him up, a senator in the state Senate attempted to desecrate the Quran on the floor of the Senate. And I told him if he did, I would knock him out right on the floor and say it won't happen. They knew when the sisters who wore hijabs were being attacked, we rallied with the men of the community and went into, took a bus to Staten Island because the sister was harassed on that bus. We stood together. They knew when someone put out a flyer of kill a Muslim day, that we walked the streets together to show our support and solidarity. They know that I am not a new friend. I'm an old and consistent friend. An old and consistent friend. And you have been a consistent friend to me. And I think Jomani said it best. It is time for you to embrace your political power and strength. It's time for you to embrace it. You have lived in the shadows of the American experience. You have allowed others to speak on your behalf. It is time for you now to look at the powers of a million Muslims. Every mosque should be ensuring if you are a member of the mosque, that you should be a member of voting and be registered to vote. And you cannot do it loosely. Every bodega should have voter registration forms. Every mosque in Imam should be talking about the power and leading up to the connectivity of the vote. Why is that important? We were in the Bronx worshiping and the Imam stopped me after the service and stated for years they wanted to get the right for a sewer system so that they can worship in their mosque. And every time they tried, they were unable to do so because they were falling on deaf ears. When I went back to the office within minutes, not days, not weeks, not in years, within minutes he had the authorization to do what he needed to build out his sewer system. And the reason that happened is because he had a mayor that he called me on my cell phone and we spoke directly to resolve the issue. That is what happens when you put your person in office and your vote is too powerful for you to continue not to energize and mobilize that vote to deal with the issues that impact you. It was you that said to me, you wanna halal food in school. You got halal food in school. It was you that told me that you wanted a place for your children to be able to have prayer. And when we read in the New York Times the other day that the young sisters could not pray, I immediately reached out to the chancellor and said that's unacceptable. You will have a place to pray in your school. When those same young sisters stated that they cannot swim separately because they're uncomfortable to swim with the male students, they were told it was not possible. I reached out to the chancellor and said they will be accommodated and allowed to swim separately because I followed the law, but I make the policy. And if the policy has been keeping you out, we are going to make sure the policy now bring you in. But we are able to do that because of your vote. If you are not using your vote, then you're going to always have people tell you what can't be done instead of people saying to the city, let's get it done. That's why your vote is important. If you did not vote and have a man in place that know you, your young children will not be able to pray as they want inside a school building. Your young children will not be able to have separate ways to swim to represent your religion. Your young children will not have the halal food that you fought for. You will not have the things you asked for if you stand the shadows of political power. You must now come in the sunlight of political power and you have to do it by registering the vote. Register the vote. And as I've been saying, as I conclude, and I want to thank both Balo and my brother George, I don't know if George Holst is here from Imlam Health, who, George, come up here, George. This brother is constantly supporting initiatives. He does it so often. Thank you so much, brother. Good to see you. But I say this over and over again. We are at an important place and if you heard me during Ramadan, I'll say it again. You gotta be more than devoted worshipers. You have to be devoted practitioners. You can't just be devoted worshipers. I don't want you just to come and pray and then go out into our communities and see hell. Has to be aligned together. If we're devoted in our faith, then we cannot have the level of gun violence we see in our city. We should be doing security patrols in our community so that our sisters are able to move to and from where they want to and that we should be engaging the young people on the street that are participating in gun violence. We are supposed to be speaking with them and talking them down from the violence that they are experiencing. We're seeing a large population of our young brothers who are coming from the continent of Africa who are feeling isolated and mistreated. We need to be embracing them, bringing them inside the mosque and giving them the teaching they deserve so they won't be turned into violence or feeling as though they're not part of the American experience. What good is it that we are inside worshipping what criminals are out being practitioners destroying our children? Fentanyl is on the rise in all of our communities. Our children are participating in the use of fentanyl overdose, killing themselves, using it. While we're in the mosque, the church, the synagogue, the Baptist of the Buddhist temples, while we're inside being worshipers, drug dealers are being practitioners and they're selling drugs to our children. So it is time for us to take our moment of being devoted worshipers and go out and be devoted practitioners because that is what Allah is going to judge us on. That's what God is going to judge us on. He's not going to judge us just on how many times we pray. He's going to judge us on have we been good Muslims? Have we been good Christians? Have we been good Jewish faith Sikh and all the other religious in the city? That is what we're going to be judged on. What was the life we lived outside of our houses of worship? Not the life we lived inside our houses of worship. It is easy to live a good life within your houses of worship in a sterilized environment of the comfort of the place that you go to worship. The real challenge that's before you is to take your faith and actualize it in the communities that you're supposed to see. People should see Allah in you outside of the mosque. That's what you should see. If you live in Brownsville and there's a mosque there, that should be the safest community in the city. If you live in the Bronx and there's a mosque there, that should be the safest place that it should be. People should walk in our communities and they should say, I see God. That's what they should say. So here's my question that I'm asking you. Right now, do people see God? Do they see it in our streets? Do they see it in our schools? Do they see it in our stores? Do they see it in our shops? Is this a city where people believe the faithful live? That's the question. People should know when you arrive in New York, you see the faithful. They should know that this is a place of faith. That's what my belief is. And it doesn't take much. Every Wednesday at 9 p.m., no matter what I'm doing, I'm on 34th Street between 7th and 8th Avenue handing our food to people with Alibaba and others. And you know what I see on the line? I see Muslims. I see Christians. I see people who I seek. I see all the faith on that line. We can't just pray about it. We gotta be about it. And so during this Eid, let's renew our faith. Let's take our faith to another level. And I want to be clear. I can't speak on who else used to be in this house called Gracie Manchin, but I can tell you this. The mayor of this city is a man I believe in God. It's a mayor of faith because you can't go from being dyslexic, arrested, rejected, and now I'm elected to be the mayor of the most powerful city in the country without your faith, without your faith. And so I thank you for being here. I thank you for your prayers. I thank you for your devotion to your faith. I thank you for lifting each other up. And I'm thanking you for the city we are going to build together. I leave you in the same way that I greeted you. Let peace be upon you. Thank you so much.