http://fahmed.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/320/ Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:18:37 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://fahmed.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/320/#comment-568 Hafsa Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:34:18 +0000 http://fahmed.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/320/#comment-568 <a href="http://haffu-taffu.blogspot.com/2007/08/book-tag.html" rel="nofollow">Kitabi tag! </a> Kitabi tag!

]]> http://fahmed.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/320/#comment-546 The Streets of Makkah at Ijtema Tue, 07 Aug 2007 06:55:17 +0000 http://fahmed.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/320/#comment-546 [...] Ahmad illustrates life in Makkah as he performs Umrah. What I saw next was probably one of the defining moments of the trip: not [...] [...] Ahmad illustrates life in Makkah as he performs Umrah. What I saw next was probably one of the defining moments of the trip: not [...]

]]> http://fahmed.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/320/#comment-496 humairah Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:11:38 +0000 http://fahmed.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/320/#comment-496 I was there for Hajj this year and besides the number of smokers which was very disturbing, the beggars were a sight- scores of women, and children, many of whom were handicapped. What was really sad were people's comments. "The government gives them help, they don't want it, so we shouldn't help them either", "Allah will provide for them", "they cut the hands of the children on purpose to beg", "look, they don't have hands because they steal, and the govt did this to them.." -Humairah http://odd-wisdom.blogspot.com I was there for Hajj this year and besides the number of smokers which was very disturbing, the beggars were a sight- scores of women, and children, many of whom were handicapped. What was really sad were people’s comments. “The government gives them help, they don’t want it, so we shouldn’t help them either”, “Allah will provide for them”, “they cut the hands of the children on purpose to beg”, “look, they don’t have hands because they steal, and the govt did this to them..”
-Humairah
http://odd-wisdom.blogspot.com

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