Food – so invaluable !
A Rohingya mother named Mabiya Khatun said after granted asylum that she had married off her young daughter to an old man of Malaysia in order to save her from severe hunger and insecurity. She is safe now and can take foods to her fill.
Through out the world, thousands of women and their young daughters are sold in brothels, paid a little of the money they earn, live in chains and can hardly return.
The evil persons exploit the appetite of women and their young daughters, lure them of good jobs and finally sell them in brothels. That is why campaigns for equal distribution of foods have been intensified.
The Prophet Muhammad (SM) said, feed the hungry, attend the sick and release the prisoners. Allah says, I do not accept Namaj (prayer) of every person. I accept Namaj of him only who feeds the hungry, clothes the clotheless, shelters the guests, and is kindhearted to the needy. By a Hadith, incorporated in the Hadith-e-Qudsi, the Prophet has tagged duty towards mankind.
So, our duty should be aimed at saving the hunger stricken people through out the world and for this we need social revolution, but not nuclear arsenal and principle of hegemony.
Abdur Rashid
Dhaka
Universally natural
Death is natural to all beings – men or anything else in life form. But very few of us know its nature.
Some commentators say that the separation of soul from the physical body is called death. When the human organs begin to become inactive one by one or at a time all on a sudden, soul departs.
Some other Islamic scholars say when physical body of a man cannot receive light from Angel, it is called death. In other words, separation of communication between an Angel mand a man is death.
The third view is that death is like a dream in sleep. When we dream something good, we become delighted ; but when we dream something giving us pain or chasing us, we become petrified and seek the end thereof. We shall never rise from eternal sleep.
However, all the three schools of thought are unanimous on one point and it is that every soul shall be paid according to what it earned.
Ameer Hamzah
Dhaka
