With the free time you or your kids have this summer:
Make it a point to volunteer at a soup kitchen, a homeless shelter, a nursing home, or in a refugee camp.
What is learned in these spaces is often far more valuable than anything taught in a classroom.
You can’t change the world if you don’t see it properly. This type of stuff gives you perspective, softens your heart, and shapes your thinking.
'But perhaps you dislike a thing and it is good for you; and perhaps you like a thing and it is bad for you; and Allah knows, while you know not' ~ Qur'an 2:216
🚨 BREAKING : Three year old Sanad Mohammed Shamaa has died after being denied timely medical treatment, as Gaza’s devastated healthcare system continues to collapse under Israel’s war and blockade.
🚨 GAZA’S CHILDREN ARE BEING FAILED:
Osama Sahloul, only 20 days old, is one of countless children suffering as disease spreads through Gaza after more than two and a half years of genocidal war.
Families are packed into worn out tents, with collapsed sanitation, little clean water, and severe medicine shortages.
You share photos of women in hijab and say:
"Look how oppressed they are."
You never share photos of women holding their dead child in a bombed hospital and say:
"Look what my taxes did."
You are not worried about women’s rights.
You are worried about maintaining the illusion that your violence is somehow enlightened.
"Get up baby, come back to me."
8-year-old Tala Abu Matar murdered. I pray that Allah punish the criminals who do this. And that He forgives me for not doing enough to stop it. Everyday for almost 3 years, I've watched these scenes on repeat. Everyday I look at these videos and imagine if it were my children. And everyday I pray that we will see justice for our people.
“I’m with Israel until my dying day.”
“Do whatever the hell you [Israel] have to do.”
“Do in Gaza what we did in Tokyo and Berlin.”
Senator Lindsey Graham is now dead.
Hellfire and eternal torment awaits him.
Insha’Allah.