What We Can Do For Aleppo
Over the past five years many of us have been struggling to make sense of the carnage we see in Syria. In the past two days alone those feelings have been intensified as we witness children, women and men suffer in ways we wouldn't wish upon our worst enemy. This morning I read this message on Twitter from the great Syrian Scholar Shaykh Muhammad Abul Huda Al-Yaqoubi. It took a while to sink in, and I'm not sure if it fully has.
The Qur'an tells us that nations before us have been tried and tested to such extents that the Prophet of their time and the community of believers with him asked when will God's aide arrive. God responds that it is near. Each one of us can help in being a spiritual and material conduit of that aide to our brothers and sisters in Syria by doing the following:
We pray by the greatness of our Messenger Muhammad (peace be upon him) that God brings peace to those that are suffering in Syria.
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