My Family on Fire! Imagine waking up one morning to the horror of finding your loved ones brutally killed. All of them, one by one, were killed like carrots. In every room that you peek, your brothers’, your sisters’, your parents’, your children’s, you find they’ve been tortured, cruelly massacred and mutilated. What will your reaction be? Will you sit still? Or stay utterly optimistic that you will be spared? Or you won’t have time to think about them and you’ll just have breakfast and go to college like you always do? Or will you be cowardly and evasive giving excuses that you can’t do anything….. If you think it’s just a fictitious scenario that I’m talking about, you’re wrong! Step out of this shell covering yourself;’my life and my world’, and look around! A sister in Iraq, a brother in Palestine,a father in Philippines, a mother in Syria, a brother in Afghanistan, a son in Burma, a cousin in Xinjiang (China), another in North Pakistan, a brother in Yemen, sisters in Somalia, friends in Algeria, an aunt in Egypt……and so many others in many of the ‘Muslim’ lands being persecuted. My family, Your family is on fire! Yes, they are our family! Prophet Muhammad (sallallahy alayhi wasallam) has said: “The Believers, in their mutual love, mercy and compassion, are like one body: if one organ complained, the rest of the body develops a fever.” [Bukhari & Muslim] Do you feel for them, pray for them and shed tears for them like you would have for a family member? Have you done anything practical to aid and support them? Do give this a thought and draft an action plan, for on the day of judgement, you will be answerable before Allah Almighty, The Judge. Do prepare an answer! Today is all you have……. [There are plenty of articles and books out there about Muslim Unity. This tiny piece or anything I write can do no justice to the topic. It is just a reminder for me and everyone else Insha Allah.] Umm Salih.
Posted on: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 11:10:05 +0000