Has A Child’s Laughter Ever Made You Cry?
26 Aug
Ramadan has surprised us once again with its quick and sudden arrival. The day’s fast is a bit more grueling than before, peaking around 14 hours. When one’s mouth becomes parched from thirst and one’s stomach twists and turns from hunger it makes you grateful for all that Allah has given you. We quickly take for granted having food and water readily available to us. We walk up to the sink and fill our glass with water to quench our thirst at anytime we want. We have the ability to pick and choose what we want to eat and what we feel like eating. Unfortunately there are many in the world who haven’t had a bite to eat for countless days, or haven’t had clean water to drink to quench their thirst. Picking and choosing what to eat and drink is far from their concerns.
There are many things you can do this month and year around to show your gratefulness and help those less fortunate.
1. Before eating and drinking make sure you pause and take a second to be grateful for the food and drink that awaits you. Make sure you recite the specific duas before and after eating.
2. Make a consistent donation (every month) towards feeding the hungry.
Places to donate:
3. Want a more creative way to help the hunger crisis? Check out the following…
FreeRice-Really cool website! Learn and help end world hunger at the same time by providing rice to hungry people for free
The Hunger Site-Click the icon to give free food. When you click, sponsors pay to distribute food to those in need.
4. Volunteer at a soup kitchen. This makes one aware that this is not just a global issue but a local one as well. It’s also a great opportunity to do dawah.
Click here to find a soup kitchen in your area.
5. Remember the most powerful thing you can do is remember the people in need in your duas, Allah is Most Powerful and inshallah will make things easy for them.
A few months ago I received a video titled “Chicken a la Carte.” It won an award for being best short film (6 minutes) and tells a true story. Its what brought tears to my eyes when I saw the children laughing and it is what motivated me to write this post. Watch below.
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