I was speaking to a friend on the ongoing Palestinian crisis, and how the range of media statements released by various organisations urging for the conflict to end did not address the fundamental emotional angle that the event represented for Muslims everywhere.
It's a huge tragedy. As a father, I feel extremely sad and disturbed for all the parents who have lost their children in the Israeli assault. Of the more than 1,000 dead, about a third are children. That's about 300 children. May Allah give them a wonderful bounty, free from the sadness and suffering of this world, and His magnificent company and the Holy Prophet's (s.a.w.) company.
As usual, with the previous bloodshed in Rwanda and Darfur and other places which I don't know of, the rich world with access to power and money is helpless, or chooses to be so. The diplomatic machinery is doing its job in the form of the UN to come to a ceasefire agreement which both Israel and Hamas can agree to. I don't know how long that will take.
What is the practical thing we can do? Donate in the Humanitarian Effort donation boxes at at the various mosques, and do a lot of do'a (supplications to God) that the conflict stops, that Palestinian civilians are spared of this ordeal, and that the Israeli government is able to come to a better solution to this problem in discussion with the various stakeholders involved.
It's a deeply emotional moment for the Muslim world - but let's remind ourselves that the problems are caused by people and their need for territory, and not define it purely as a test for Muslims. It's more complex than that.
It's a huge tragedy. As a father, I feel extremely sad and disturbed for all the parents who have lost their children in the Israeli assault. Of the more than 1,000 dead, about a third are children. That's about 300 children. May Allah give them a wonderful bounty, free from the sadness and suffering of this world, and His magnificent company and the Holy Prophet's (s.a.w.) company.
As usual, with the previous bloodshed in Rwanda and Darfur and other places which I don't know of, the rich world with access to power and money is helpless, or chooses to be so. The diplomatic machinery is doing its job in the form of the UN to come to a ceasefire agreement which both Israel and Hamas can agree to. I don't know how long that will take.
What is the practical thing we can do? Donate in the Humanitarian Effort donation boxes at at the various mosques, and do a lot of do'a (supplications to God) that the conflict stops, that Palestinian civilians are spared of this ordeal, and that the Israeli government is able to come to a better solution to this problem in discussion with the various stakeholders involved.
It's a deeply emotional moment for the Muslim world - but let's remind ourselves that the problems are caused by people and their need for territory, and not define it purely as a test for Muslims. It's more complex than that.
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Its a sad truth that the number of dead have pass the 1000 mark but there something that no eveyone knows - no one has reported an even more appalling statistic: that there are some 1.5 million injured Palestinians in Gaza who have suffered injuries such as severe burns from exploding Israeli phosphorus shells; shrapnel wounds from artillery rounds; broken or lost limbs from aerial bombardment; bullet wounds; physical trauma from falling building debris; and so on.
But rest assure that Victory will come...and for now let us increase our dua for our relatives in Gaza and may the money we donate find it's place in good use to them.
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