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For the very first time food insecurity where they have to make a choice whether or not they

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

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

they never had to make about the types of food that they would purchase. And some panellot you have

people that because of the hardship that they are in and because this is so new to them will not

go to those that they know will not go to their local community centers will not go to their places

of worship will not go to their close circle of friends but would actually prefer to drive out

to a food bank far away where they know that none of the volunteers will recognize them.

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

every single feeding station. And by the way this is something that we have to be very conscious of

that many times in our desire to show good efforts people will snap a camera we'll take a camera

out take their phone out and take pictures of some of these feeding stations and you'll notice

that that person that's rolling down the window maybe for the first time in their lives to get a

plate of food is trying to keep their face away and we have to be conscious of that we have to be

aware of that. I wanted to talk about this from the Hadith of the Prophet ﷺ that is narrated in

Abu Khaddi and with another variation in Anasati a very powerful Hadith about people

and asking. He says, the one who is poor is not the one who leaves when you give him a date or

two or give him a small piece of food a morsel or two and in one narration, Yalthufu, how

little Nas he's walking around the people with his hand out asking for something here asking

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