Do We Care? - Floods in Pakistan

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    Twenty Million people with out homes, with out food, water and clothing. Over Sixteen hundred people dead.

  

Seems like just numbers doesn't it. 

  

    Although, the floods in Pakistan are the biggest humanitarian crises in recent years - bigger than the Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004 or the earthquake in Haiti, according to the United Nations. Not to mention that a majority of the affected are Muslims. 

   

   But then, I have home, I have car, water,  food, a nice life I depend on. So what if people from my Ummah dont have food to break fast with, I have samosas, haleem, fruit chaat, lassi. So what if they are dying of thirst and hunger. So, what if their hunger doesn't end at sundown. So what.

  Most of us will probably go on with our lives after reading this as we have after reading about most calls for help to aid Pakistan. The sad thing is that the fire of hunger, and the dryness of thirst will still be there in the half a million people affected. 

[ Boston Globe ]

Allah says in a Hadith Qudsi, 

   O son of Adam, I fell ill and you visited Me not. He will say: O Lord, and how should I visit You when You are the Lord of the worlds? He will say: Did you not know that My servant So-and-so had fallen ill and you visited him not? Did you not know that had you visited him you would have found Me with him? O son of Adam, I asked you for food and you fed Me not. He will say: O Lord, and how should I feed You when You are the Lord of the worlds? He will say: Did you not know that My servant So-and-so asked you for food and you fed him not? Did you not know that had you fed him you would surely have found that (the reward for doing so) with Me? O son of Adam, I asked you to give Me to drink and you gave Me not to drink. He will say: O Lord, how should I give You to drink when You are the Lord of the worlds? He will say: My servant So-and-so asked you to give him to drink and you gave him not to drink. Had you given him to drink you would have surely found that with Me. 

   Its our duty to help. Not just monetarily, but in action as well, we should be organizing food drives in our local areas and masjid, we should  be collecting clothes and other daily life items. We should be making Dua for them. 

  Because even though we have clothes, food, water and shelter, what if on the Day of Judgment we are left naked, hungry, thirsty and with out the shade of Allah because of our inability to help those who needed it once. 

[ Boston Globe ]

  Seize this moment, seize this passion, sorrow or what ever emotion you are feeling for these helpless people and DO something about it. Don't let this be just another time when life just goes on. You are the change you want to create.

Monetary relief: Islamic Relief for Flood in Pakistan

Donate in kind:Blankets, clothes, etc - Hidaya Foundation