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Omar Suleiman

The Most Amazing Wedding I’Ve Ever Been To - South Africa

Omar Suleiman

Muslim Central

Society & Culture, Islam, Religion & Spirituality

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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by visiting www.mustimcentral.com forward slash donate. Salaam anikam and al-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a brothers and sisters. So I remember a few years ago I was visiting the Syrian refugee camps in Jordan, and

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subhannalah, I'd been to Zaatari and mafraq in these different places multiple times.

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And every time you would go, you would see the growing number of refugees.

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You'd feel a greater sense of despair.

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And you helped out a few, but you neglected a lot. And you're wondering, you know, is this

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really making a difference in people's lives? And I remember in one of those journeys coming across

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this seeming Walima that was taking place in the refugee camp.

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Meaning, instead of people passing out boxes of food,

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they were passing out plates of rice and lamb, right?

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And I'm like, who in the world is passing out

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Ruz and Haruf, right?

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Like lamb and rice in the middle of these refugee camps.

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And, mashallahallah they had reached multiple

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people and i asked one of the volunteers what's happening here and i said this is a wedding i thought

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that maybe this was a syrian wedding you know it could have either been that there were some people

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within the camps that were getting married and they

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had maybe an employer outside of the camps that was, you know, sponsoring the food or whatever

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it may be. Or it was a Syrian that cared for, you know, their own people in that Sunson

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was sponsoring the food or having a wedding there. But, to my surprise, it was a couple from South Africa that decided to do their wedding in a Syrian refugee camp.

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Instead of doing their Walima, back home, where the people who already eat, eat more,

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