Abdul Muqit Chowdhury :
The Holy Quran proclaims responsibility towards parents and orphans, those in need, kinsfolk, neighbours, and companions. Al Quran reveals : ” … Treat with kindness/ Your parents and kindred,/ And orphans and those in need;/ Speak fair to the people; /Be steadfast in
prayer;/And practise regular charity. ” (Sura Baqara: Ayat 83, The Holy Quran : Translation and Commentary by A. Yusuf Ali)]
“And be steadfast in prayer/And regular in charity:/And whatever good/Ye send forth for your souls/Before you, ye shall find it/With God: for God sees/Well all that ye do.” (Sura Baqara : Ayat 110 , Do)
Al-Quran commands about orphans : “To orphans restore their property /(When they reach their age)./Nor substitute (your) worthless things/ For (their) good ones; and devour not/Their substance (by mixing it up) /With your own. For this is/Indeed a great sin!” (Sura Nisa : Ayat 2, Do)
The orphans should be provided with all humanitarian support by the believers of Allah. Rasulullah (SM) said : “The best house among the Muslims is the house in which an orphan is well treated and the worst house among the Muslims is the house in which an orphan is badly treated.” (Ibne Mazah Sharif)
Rasulullah (SM) said, “This is the month of helping and cooperating with the poor and the needy through which the livelihood of the believer increases.”
He used to make more charity in the month of Ramzan. “His charitable activities speedily blew more than the blowing wind.” (Bukhari Sharif)
According to Hadith, Ramzan is ‘the month of sympathy’ and the committed period of fellow-feeling. Ramzan, as a leveller of the affluent and the needy, has a great social significance and impact. It promotes a sense of equity, equality and solidarity with the distressed people through pangs of hunger and thirst. It contributes to the feeling of brotherhood and helps to create integrity and unity in the society and the Ummah at large. It helps to cross over disparity, distinction, hatred and conflict and draws all to a uniform social platform. Thus the agony and sufferings of the needy and have nots should not be overlooked. The solvent rozadars should be responsible to the nearest helpless human beings.
