The challenge will be to scale the peak of the
mountain, this will take plenty of guts, determination and hard
work, but it’ll be an experience of a life time Insha-Allah.
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Charity Week 2009 is intended to serve
the purpose of attaining the love of Allaah, seeking His pleasure and
seeking His most honorable Face. In order to achieve this, we aim to
serve the people in need; the poor, the orphans, and the elderly and
others through projects and schemes that strictly adhere to the
beautiful sharee’ah.
Serving the poor and the elderly is a
communal obligation (fard kifaayah) upon us, as they should be provided
with a life of dignity and they must be given all human rights in full.
Undoubtedly there is much good in doing that and whatever is spent on
their care will be recorded with multiple rewards, inshaAllaah. Allaah
says:
“The
likeness of those who spend their wealth in the way of Allaah, is as
the likeness of a grain (of corn); it grows seven ears, and each ear
has a hundred grains. Allaah gives manifold increase to whom He wills.
And Allaah is All-Sufficient for His creatures’ needs, All-Knower”
[al-Baqarah 2:261]
In addition, by doing this we are
relieving distress and hardship, and helping our fellow Muslim brothers
and sisters. This is strongly encouraged by the Messenger of Allaah
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) when he said in a hadeeth
narrated by Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him):
“Whoever
removes a worldly hardship from a believer, Allaah will remove one of
the hardships of the Day of Resurrection from him. Whoever grants
respite to (a debtor) who is in difficulty, Allaah will grant him
relief in this world and in the Hereafter. Whoever conceals (the fault
of) a Muslim in this world, Allaah will conceal him (his faults) in
this world and in the Hereafter. Allaah will help a person so long as
he is helping his brother.”
[Reported by Muslim (4867)]
This year the Islamic Society of City
University & the five aforementioned Islamic Societies have decided
to come together to launch, complete and maintain three heartwarming
projects in three different regions and locations around the world.
Each project is medically related and will serve to establish health
facilities, hospitals, as well as providing a free health care service
(free diagnosis, medicine & health educations) for displaced people
who cannot afford these things that we take for granted.
The first of the three regions we
intend to liberate from the pain, suffering and difficulties of a lack
of accessible medicine and health care institutes is the region of The
North West Frontier Province of Pakistan; the Peshawar/Nowshehra/Swabi
district. Peshawar is a very poor place and due to conflicts and
disasters there are many widows, orphans and poor people who cannot
afford basic medical treatment. We therefore propose to establish a
permanent base for a medical centre, which could facilitate medical
projects on a long-term basis. This base could also become the central
avenue from where doctors can be dispatched and mobile medical
ambulances to patients whom are unable to attend the centre. The centre
will have various medical facilities including X-Ray, ECG, Blood Bank
Laboratory, along with a 24 hour based emergency facility for ODP (Out
Door Patients). Another saddening fact in the NWFP is that many women
struggle during childbirth with some dying as a result. We would
therefore include within this centre a dedicated section for labour to
aid our sisters in these situations.
[Patients in the current Peshawar Hospital]
The second region is the village of
Behrampura/Ahmedabad of Gujarat, where we have decided to set up a
Dialysis centre. We presently have 2000 square feet of space and aim to
construct a 6000 square feet building, necessary for the dialysis
centre. At present the dialysis centre is running at Mariyam hospital
but due to the lack of space within the hospital it cannot function
efficiently. Therefore if, with the help of Allaah, we developed it
independently we can assist 600/700 people every month and thus
annually the centre can benefit more than 8000 people inshaAllaah.
[The current Gujarat hospital]
[Patients waiting to be treated in the current Gujarat hospital]
The third and final region for this
incredible project is the Mogadishu village in the Banadir region of
Somalia. Here, we intend to establish a heath facility in the Mogadishu
IDP camp. The centre will enable the poor families to get free
diagnosis, free medicine & free health educations as the displaced
families in the outskirt of Mogadishu are suffering from lack of health
care, and the existing few little health facilities take from patients
large amounts of money which these displaced people cannot afford to
pay it. Therefore, by the permission of Allaah, this project will take
an important role in aiding the poor families in Mogadishu and help to
cover their needs to health services.
[Patients in the current poorly equipped Mogadushar hospital]
The combined total that these projects require is
£120,000.
The Islamic Societies of City University & the five other
aforementioned Islamic Societies will be raising and collecting money
on behalf of
Ummah Welfare Trust (UWT) who have a
strict 0% charge for administration costs,
therefore every penny you donate will go directly towards the building,
construction and maintaining of this blessed project. Abu Hurayrah (may
Allaah be pleased with him) narrates that the Messenger of Allaah
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:
“The
good deeds that will reach a believer after his death are: knowledge
which he learned and then spread; a righteous son whom he leaves
behind; a copy of the Qur’aan that he leaves as a legacy; a mosque that
he built; a house that he built for wayfarers; a canal that he dug; or
charity that he gave during his lifetime when he was in good health.
These deeds will reach him after his death.”
[Reported by Ibn Maajah (242) and was classed as 'hassan' by al-Albaani in Saheeh Ibn Maajah]
Donating money to establish charitable
hospitals or healthcare centres are amongst the means of an ongoing
charity that will benefit the donor after he/she has passed away. We
therefore would like to humbly ask all brothers and sisters to donate
as much money as possible for this great cause. Moreover, we would be
tremendously grateful if brothers and sisters could kindly pass this
message on to others, thus making people aware of this project
inshaAllaah.
Finally, we pray to Allaah that He
envelopes us in His mercy, that He keeps our intentions sincere and
that He opens for us the doors of Paradise through the gates of giving
charity, Aameen.
And may Allaah send peace and blessings
upon His slave and the seal of the Prophets and Messengers, Muhammad,
his family, his companions and upon all those who follow his way until
the last day. Aameen.
Wassalaamu ‘Alaikum Warahamtullaahi Wabarakaatuh
City University Islamic Society, Queen
Mary University Islamic Society, Kingston University Islamic Society,
Goldsmith University Islamic Society, Greenwich University Islamic
Society and the University of East London Islamic Society.
If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via charityweek@uwt.org