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Wed 3 Ramadan 1445AH 13-3-2024AD at 12:02 pm #91227
It’s quite unfortunate that the churches have hijacked the spirit of generosity and kindness which has been preached and demonstrated by the holy Prophet and the sahaba for over a century.
A very good brother saw an eleha peeping through the window of the church, he asked why the eleha was peeping. The eleha said her husband had gone for “ijade” and that she was sure she would get something to feed her children from the church.
Last year Ramadan, a Kaduna church distributed bags of rice, maize, and other food items including prayer mats to poor Muslims across the state.
The Christ Evangelical Intercessory Fellowship Ministry, Sabon Tasha, Kaduna has doled out over 500 food packages to Muslims.
The truth is that even lion and dangerous dogs recognize the one who feed them. They only time they could strike is when they are terribly hungry and the one who feeds them approached them with empty hands.
Go and check most of our hardliners among brothers, when you talk about their bosses or relatives who give them job, provide accomodations and generously give them, when you talk about Christians treachery and hatred for Muslims, these our brothers would defend them with every Hujjah. This shows “ona ofun lona orun.
Why do civil servants in the state become docile and complacent when you brothers are criticizing any governor? Do you think they are happy? It’s simply because they must protect their pots of soup. Give them alternative job and see if they would not join to write or speak against any governor who is not performing.
In the advanced countries even where poverty is not as high as our own, Muslim community or organization have food and drinks as part of their Dawah package.
Muslim duat or centres would recruit volunteers to help by either cooking meals or donating to help cover costs for food and Islamic literature for free distributions. They organize streets walks, free medicals, free drugs etc.
Have we ever organized tea party around us. Muslim brothers would invite people for tea in the mosque. After drinking tea they are either engaged individually or a lecture is delivered to them in group about Islam.
Anybody who has performed umrah or Hajj would bear me witness that distribution of food and drinks is the most common thing you would notice. As you move along the streets, you are begged to collect food and drinks. There is hardly any one of us who don’t eat saara “sadaqah” when we go for Hajj or umrah but we reject them here.
Feeding people was one of the Sunnah of the early Muslims including our early Muslims in Yorubaland. Every Friday at the mosque, you were sure of eating to your fill, mosa, akara etc.
In some Muslim areas in the past, it was possible for you to go for mogrib and stayed behind to observe ishai and taraweeh because your Iftar was guaranteed.
Stomach infrastructures as a Dawah strategy.
When Allah ordered the Prophet (saw)👇👇👇وَأَنذِرْ عَشِيرَتَكَ الْأَقْرَبِينَ
“And warn, (O Muhammad), your closest kindred.” (Qur’an 26:214)
The holy prophet Muhammad started his dawah with his families and close relatives.The Prophet (saw) invited the elites and leaders of his clan to a banquet. About forty men responded but left before the Prophet could speak with them.
The second time, He invited them again and after eating he addressed his guests.
Imagine organizing a Dawah today and after the Dawah program, participants are going home with take away. People could endure a long Tafsir if they knew their Iftar is guaranteed. This is not applicable to the poor and the needy only, but even those who merely wanted to avoid inconveniences.
The totality of these submissions is that food infrastructures is a Dawah strategy, it’s permissible and appropriate in the contemporary days considering our situation and circumstances.
@AbdulWaahid Awwal Lawal
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