Fighting Poverty using the Islamic ways
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The Quran encourages Muslims to provide qard hasan or benevolent loans to “those who need them”:
“Who is he that will give Allah qard al hasan? For Allah will increase it manifold to his credit.” [57:11]
“If you give Allah qard al hasan … he will grant you forgiveness.” [64:17]
“Establish regular prayer and give regular charity and give Allah qard al hasan.” [73:20]
It was narrated from Abu Hurayrah that the Messenger of Alaah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “Wealth never decreases because of charity. No person shows forbearance but Allaah will honour him and no one is humble for the sake of Allaah but Allaah will raise him in status.” (Muslim, 2588)
A short but powerful video about poverty in India.
“To achieve a higher rate of poverty reduction, India will need to address the inequalities in opportunities that impede poor people from participating in the growth process.” - The World Bank (2012)
Children are compelled to work for long working hours with inadequate or no rest period. Moreover, they are paid with minimum wages and enjoy no job security. Many people prefer to employ young boys to maximize services for those minimum wages. 17.5 percent of children in the aged 5–15 are engaged in economic activities. Many of these children are engaged in various hazardous occupations in manufacturing factories. In hazardous conditions, where it is common practice for the factory owners to take on children as unpaid apprentices, only providing them with two meals a day.
“The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied… but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.”
— John Berger
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Spend your wealth for the sake of Allah (God) by Sheikh Zahir Mahmood
The Prophet (peace & blessings be upon him) said, Imam Tirmidhi relates in the Jami, he said: “Three things I take oath upon, No man’s wealth will decrease if he spends in the path of Allah. No man’s in the time of the Prophet (pbuh), the Prophet (pbuh) came home and he asked Aisha (RA): Has anybody come to the house? And she said: A man came but all we had was a bit of food for you Oh Messenger of Allah so I kept it for you and the Prophet (pbuh) said: No, no, Aisha, what you would’ve spent is that you would’ve kept that for me, because it would’ve been by Allah and it would’ve been stored. Whatever you have would perish, but whatever is stored by Allah will remain and this had a profound impact of Aisha (RA) and after the demise of the Prophet (pbuh), a beggar came to the house of Aisha (RA) and her slave opened the door, Barira (RA) and the beggar said: Oh family of the Messenger of Allah, give me something and she said we have nothing, and Aisha (RA) was listening to this and Aisha (RA) said: Who is it? and Barira (RA) said: It’s a beggar, and all we have is a hand full of Barley for you to open your fast with it and it was at the time of Asar, and Aisha (RA) said: Give it, Allah will provide and she gave it.
Comes Maghrib time and there’s no food, and Aisha (RA) opened her fast with some water and she began her Maghrib salat and Barira (RA) sitting there, and she’s sarcastically saying, jokingly saying: Oh Allah will provide, Allah will provide and there’s a knock on the door and a man comes and he gives a goat as a gift and Aisha (RA) finished the salah and she said: Oh Barira, who is it? And she said: It was a man who lives in the area, by Allah, he has never even given us anything before but today he bought us a goat and Aisha (RA) said: Oh Barira, isn’t that goat better than the hand full of wheat that you had? And then she said something which really, signifies the imaan of these people, she said: I swear by Allah, none of you can be a true believer, until his trust in Allah is stronger than that which he has in the palm of his hand, you see it, but your trust in Allah is stronger than which you have in your hands and we see the Dunya.”
May Allah SWT make our beliefs stronger in the Akhira than it is in the Dunya. May Allah SWT give us an imaan which makes us realise the fallacy of the Dunya and the deception of the Dunya as well. Ameen ya rabbal ‘alamin.
A cool map that shows where our petition signers from our most recent campaign come from. +50,000 from Africa, +40,000 from Europe, +90,000 from North America.
Have you signed? If not, go here:http://bit.ly/HElvOF
Could you live on $1.50/day for food? I’m taking the challenge today. #livebelowtheline #poverty
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fightpoverty Said:
Oh my.. I’m very sorry for replying this message late. I really thought I have answered it last time. It must be because I was having a bad internet connection that time that my answer had not been published. My apologies..
Thank you so much for your kind words, dear. Indeed, fighting poverty should be prioritize over protecting the environment. Since poverty involves with the well-being of humans and that if we choose to ignore it, it also could be disastrous to the environment.
Thank you, too for pointing out that Islam is the most misunderstood religion. I couldn’t agree more. It’s people like you that I’m very pleased to meet. :) Not only you have an open mind, you also have a good heart. May God bless you always! :)
Again, I really appreciate your kind words. Hope you have a blessed day! ^_^
