 It's a very big day for all of you, I know. But I suppose you want to know a bit about my journey in life. I was born in a very committed and loyal family in Iran, in the Jewish family. The core of everything I achieved in life was due to my parents, God, and their souls. They were the core of the stone of my life. Even though I was going to school, but because I was going to sleep a lot, I started writing a book from four o'clock in the evening to late in the morning. This is the same thing I did for my PhD. I'll come to that in a minute. After a year, I published a book which became, and still is, after almost 55 or 60 years, the best sellers, and I proved to be wrong. And that taught me a lesson, that in life, if you have a aim, if you have a purpose, you could focus and you can succeed. In 1967, after doing my national service, I left Iran and went to the United States. After trying to learn the language, because I was fluent in French but not fluent in English at the time, I started to take some courses in Queens College during the night. I transferred them afterward for a day. I did my BA in Queens College. And in the course of that, I was doing a lot of work. I was helped many times. I failed many times, but every failure became the core of the stone of my success. Do not underestimate your strength when you are faced with failures. It's always helpful, always there, and you're even harder to achieve your goal. In 1976, I was coming to London a lot. In 1976, I came to London. It just so happened that I met the love of my life. I moved in in 1978. We got married. And in 1981, our first son, Daniel, was born. I went to my wife and I said, I think I decided to do a PhD. And she looked at me and she said, are you from this planet or from somewhere else? You just got married, you have a young kid, you have a business to run, what do you want to do a PhD? I said, I found a university, I want to go and I don't worry about it. I'm not going to deprive you of my time. The quality time you always have, because I used my own time, which was again between four and eight in the morning. So I did my PhD, but I found an institution, which is unparalleled to any institution that I found or I got involved in later on. Let me tell you, I used to walk in, go around, after I did my PhD, obviously, I immediately endowed the chair that the director mentioned. Then I used to go to the director's room and look at the porter cabinets across the room of the director's room. And I turned around to him one day and I said, you know something? I can't see the sight of these porter cabinets. Give me two years. I'll find somebody to build a building. If I can find anybody, I'll pay for it myself. I was very lucky. I had a very good relationship with King of Brunei. I walked into his office. He wanted to build a mosque. I told him not to build a mosque. I said, there are plenty of mosques. We need the culture of institution, we need education. He wrote a cheque for 10 million pounds. I took the cheque, I came to university, I met to Macmillian at the town with the director and I said, here it is. I promise you start doing it because I love this institution. I never forget, he turned around to me and said, I used to be banker. I'm Mr. the banker. I haven't seen that many zeros on one piece of paper. So that was the story of King of Brunei. I'm not the only person who fell in love with Swaz. Many leaders in business, politics, and world, it too. Some of the most influential people in the world are Swaz. Let me now share with you something which is even more important. You may ask, how a guy who left the country in 1967, the country of his birth, with only $750 and that was the leftover of the money after I sold the Royalty for my book. I got here and it's time to be in front of you now. I tell you what, because throughout my struggle to get here, I've followed 10 guiding principles. I'll share it with you. Be patient. Life without passion is like fire without a flame. Be patient, dream, plan, and pursue. Be unique. Don't ever want to be somebody else. That position has already been taken. Be generous. Generosity is a blessing from Almighty. Be well-informed. We live in a world of mass information. We are living in a world of mass information full of misinformation. Be present. I'm sure you have heard this before, but I have added something to it that I shared with you. The same goes that the past is history. The future is mystery. And the present is a gift. And it is a gift. That is why it is called present. Every morning you wake up. Every morning you look up to the sky. Remember, that is part of that gift. Be humble. Always remember, glory belongs to God, and humility belongs to man. Be mindful. Ownership is nothing by myth. We are all only temporary custodians of what we believe we own. Be loving. No child is born to hate. We are born as human beings first. Religion is given to us as birth. In reality, there is by far more that unites humanity rather than divides humanity. And finally, be wealthy. There is a huge difference between being rich and being wealthy. The definition of rich is only financial. The definition of wealth is totally different. It includes good health, a strong family, trusted friends, and respectable reputation. The Bible said, good name is like a good oil, mixed with liters of water. Give it half an hour. Shake it for as long as you like. The oil would end up at the top. The only thing you have, the only thing you leave behind is your name, change. I wish every one of you not only to become rich and prosperous, but more importantly to become wealthy citizens of all world. You heard that in our collection, we have different collections from the Islamic World, to Hajj, and others, the eight different collections, 35,000 pieces. We have published, we are trying to publish 100 volumes, which is going to be the biggest publication in modern history, out of which 72 are already out there on our website. But all these happened because I learned simply from nature. I was working when I was, when I was, when I was all in a nick. And those days, there was a lot of a snake in the field. But they were not venomous. So I was, I was following them. How they get away from us. And I realized that they find a little hole, which is not much bigger than the size of their body. And they straight go in, and it don't let me. Imagine if they curve their body, they cannot get in. Choose a straight path in life. That is the path to success. I'm known to have evasion, the sleeping joints. This is what I always say. I bring them to light, I bring them and introduce them to humanity. But I have a challenge for you today. As you begin your own journey, I challenge you. You, I challenge you to identify your own sleeping joint. In whatever field it may be, to bring it to life and share with the world. As the elder of this great institution, I welcome you to Swah's family and wish you peace and prosperity. It's a big day for you. Congratulations.