My Journey
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We decided a website was the answer, something to provoke thought. The other goal inshallah is to do charity/philanthropic projects in the long term as God exhorts us to do give sadaqah and zakat and to help others and not put ourselves first.Inshallah with this site we will endeavour righteously in the way of God.
Peace Haroon,
Welcome back. I am new here myself. You mention charity/philanthropic projects, this is something I've been thinking about as well. Is there/has there been a way for us at FM to give charity as a whole? Thanks for your time.
Peace and love,
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Salaam Lily!
How are you today?
I hope all is well.
I don't know at the moment how we should go about with charity/philanthropic projects.
We haven't done anything in the past to my recollection.
What I did discuss with Layth was the idea of how Muslim businesses could use their financial clout not just to put the profits back into the pockets of those who run it, but putting some money back into charity/philanthropic projects.
The only thing I can think of is as more groups of people who believe in God alone are collected in various geographical locations they should get together and find creative ways of using money for charitable causes etc. Donating money is a good starting point for all of us at the moment. Until we can get more organised and professional in our approach.
This is all just off the top of my head.
One thing I have noticed is just how much progress our website Free-Minds has made in the time I've been away.
We just start off small with our charitable/philanthropic efforts, the important thing is to have a momentum that gains with time and remains constant. You know the saying about how little acorns grow into trees eventually.
Let's see what we can come up with once we put our heads together.
I've already spoken to Layth about how over time we should try donating copies of the Quran's translation to libraries and educational centres and find as many ways of distributing it as possible.
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Peace,
Haroon- "I've already spoken to Layth about how over time we should try donating copies of the Quran's translation to libraries and educational centres and find as many ways of distributing it as possible."
I really love that idea, that could be a wonderful start. Perhaps the moderators could compile a list of possible charities and then from the list issue a poll for those who are sincerely willing to donate.
Again, welcome back and thank you for your time.
love and peace,
lf -
peace all,
Welcome Haroon. I came to "God Alone" in 2000 at the tender age of 19, and I'm also from the UK. If you are interested in projects relating to AQ, you may wish to visit www.quraninstitute.org
lilyfleur, as far as donating to charity is concerned, why not do it directly? Going through the forum sounds unecessarily convoluted.
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Peace bro Haroon,
Welcome back welcome and thank you for co-founding this website.
My story and background is at the following link
http//free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=10334.0
I agree that we need to give charity to any needy person around us especially our relatives. In addition to that I have a suggestion to set up a way to donate to free-minds also to help our fellow members in time of need and organize meetings etc.
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well, i co-founded and stayed for a while.
for personal reasons i left and stayed away and had to resolve things, both personal and faith related.
I only returned in the last couple of weeks.
Inshallah I will be contributing more to this site and the endeavours of Free-Minds. As for being a moderator! It's up the other gracious members to grant me such status
In the UK, I live along the south coast, not too far from Portsmouth.
Where are you based?
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I think just like what someone (Magi?) here once said, instead of donating our money through some kinda organization or something, we should just find a homeless person around our home and feed him or let him take a shower or something.
A homeless person shower in one's own home ? Maybe letting them use your toothbrush too ?
Some people might be able to accept such things but I'm personally far too aware of contagion etc. to be comfortable with something like that. I'd consider handing them a bar of soap and hosing them down on the front lawn if they were agreeable to that
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A homeless person shower in one's own home ? Maybe letting them use your toothbrush too ?
I?m sure your family uses the same shower and not the same tooth brush.
Some people might be able to accept such things but I'm personally far too aware of contagion etc. to be comfortable with something like that. I'd consider handing them a bar of soap and hosing them down on the front lawn if they were agreeable to that
Is that coz you will get to see them with their clothes off? ;D
