Monday 25 February 2013

Going International From Home

Assalamualaikum wbt and peace be upon you,
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Hi, how's life? I'm good as always. Maybe some of you noticed that I've not blogged for quite some time and I've deleted a few of my posts. Now that I have the time, I'd like to write on something which many of you might think is difficult but is actually quite easy to do.
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Do you understand the title of this post? It means, you can still be international or do something international (cross borders) even from the comfort of your own home, and change the lives of your fellow human beings as well, maybe in terms of food, clothing, education, religion etc. Below are what you can practice from home:
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1. Send money to build mosque in Gaza.(some local mosques like the al-Falah mosques in Subang Jaya have a twinning programme where they help to build or rebuild mosques in Gaza. You don't need thousands of dollars, RM 50 (about USD15) is also acceptable)
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2. Send money to the Palestinians (Through various NGOs in Malaysia ).
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3. Fund an orphan in Palestine (through Aqsa Shariff). You can organize this with others in your area (eg everyone including me chips in RM5 (less than USD2 per month, and the collection is sent to the organization every month).
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4 Send muqaddam/ Iqra' to Sri Lanka and Cambodia (some countries do not have a system to teach basic understanding of the Quranic alphabets so it is good to send them these little books which are very affordable here. You can send the books through international students who study at the International Islamic University, or if you know someone there, it's better, that's what we did).
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5. Send Al-Quan to the whole world (It's a simple system, when there's a tour group going to Seoul for example, a couple of the Al-Quran will be sent to the Seoul Mosque. So far, the Quran has been distributed to Beijing, Seoul, Cambodia, Vietnam, Spain (

6. Send clothes to Cambodia and Indonesia. Once a year, my mom's friend will send a batch of clothes to Cambodia because the people there are very poor. For Indonesia, give the clothes to Indonesian maids who can send it to her kampung via courier service. The clothes can come from all your neighbours.
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7. Make Qurban in Cambodia. .
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8. Send money to build religious schools in Indonesia. You don't need tons of money. Just a few hundreds is enough.
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9. Helps people who want to perform badal Haji in Mekah during the Hajj season.
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10. Send money to religious schools in Thailand. It's so easy coz there are so many people from Thailand coming here asking for donations for their schools. So, make an acquaintance with them, and verify the info that they give, then you can start send them money or Al-Quran.
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11. I think you can also send donations to India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan coz there are so many of them here. You can get to know them, listen about the difficulties there, and use these contacts to help those people in need over there. You can also send the donations through our local tabligh groups here.(I've friends who are tablighs and they always go to those places, sometimes for three months).
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12. My dad's friend and his wife make the extra effort of going to Inner Mongolia and staying there for a month to teach the children and the ladies to read the al-Quran and the al-Fatihah. I think they stayed in a tent like the locals. Isn't it cool. 

It's so easy to do something for others even though those people are so far away because there are so many organizations and people out there who can help you do it. All you need to put in is a little effort. You don't need to wait to have tons of money before you can start doing something good for someone. Don't just watch the news and say "I feel so sorry for these people" but that's it. no action taken. JUST DO IT!!
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Love and peace
Daniel Zaydi

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