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Omar Suleiman

Don’t Wait For Others To Ask

Omar Suleiman

Muslim Central

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Islam

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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When global hunger is expected to double this next year and people are losing their jobs and people are experiencing for the very first time food

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insecurity where they have to make a choice whether or not they feed themselves or their

0:21.8

children. They have to make a choice whether they pay their cell phone

0:25.2

bill or they use whatever money they have to purchase food. They have to make

0:31.8

choices that they never had to make about the types of food

0:34.6

that they would purchase. And, s'h'pah, you have people that because of the hardship

0:42.1

that they are in and because this is so new to them will not go to those

0:46.9

that they know, will not go to their local community centers, will not go to

0:51.3

their places of worship, will not go to their closed

0:53.8

circle of friends, but would actually prefer to drive out to a food bank far

0:59.5

away where they know that none of the volunteers will recognize them.

1:03.8

We'll actually be afraid of a camera that is taking a picture of the lines of cars now that

1:10.1

are at every single feeding station.

1:11.9

And by the way, this is something that we have to be very conscious of

1:15.2

that many times in our desire to show good efforts,

1:19.4

people will snap a camera, we'll take a camera out,

1:21.7

take their phone out and take pictures of some of these feeding

1:24.0

stations. And you'll notice that that person that's rolling down the window, maybe for the first time

1:28.6

in their lives, to get a plate of food, is trying to keep their face away and we have to be conscious of that.

1:36.0

We have to be aware of that.

1:37.2

I wanted to talk about this from the Hadith of the Prophet,

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