What about little Ibrahim?
How do you think he feels?
I keep thinking about a little boy: alone, cold & waiting for his mama & baba who will never come.
He comes up to me, crying. His clothes are dirty, thin and he has no protection from the cold. His name is Ibrahim. He’s hungry. He must be about 3 or 4. He doesn’t have a mama or baba. He just wants someone to look after him.
He wants things to be ok again.
I pick him up and, from the bottom of my heart, feel that I want to protect him. I want little Ibrahim to be okay. And, by the grace of Allah, I have the ability to help him be okay.
He then slowly goes away from within my arms, slowly evaporating. I realise it was not real. It was all just a fragment of my imagination.
But my ability to help and protect him remains. And I can. I might not be able to physically protect him, but I can support him with what I have. I can share my wealth, no matter how small, to help him.
Because little Ibrahim may not be here with me right now. But he is still somewhere. Still just a baby. Still wanting someone to look after him. Still wanting things to be okay again.
Little Ibrahim is just one of many children. He stands for all the little Fatima’s and little Zahid’s and little Dua’s around the world. They just want things to be ok again.
And we can help that happen. You don’t have to give a set amount, you can give whatever you are able to. It might just be £5 or £10 for you and I, but for people living in countries in need, that same £5 can be worth hundreds – yes, hundreds. It can give them things they really need. It can help make things a little okay again.
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