I watched in awe as the houses blew in front of their eyes and the little kids still had the faith to say ALLAHU AKBAR. There are no houses now. Just debris of forgotten people and dreams. The tired eyes wait for it to end while we sit and watch. And ignore. Because we have better things to worry about like tonight's dinner or the sale in the shopping mall. We have bigger reasons to cry about like not having the latest iphone and how your boyfriend wouldn't text you back. You sit for dinner with a table full of people and complain about the food being a little too spicy and how your siblings are such an annoyance and how your parents are always fighting and how you can't wait to move out, while the four year old boy is already a parent taking care of his little sister, wondering where his parents are?
We watch and we ignore because well, it isn't happening to us, or around us. They suffer and endure and have faith. And we sit and complain and complain and complain. Today as you read this, I want you to think about all the blessings that you take for granted, I want you to think about all the times you complained like you were entitled to royalty, like you earned all of it. I want you to take a moment to say Alhumdulillah for all the blessings that you have and many others don't, not because they are bad people, but because Allah chose them for that test. I want you to realize how lucky you are to have a home to go to and people you can call family. We all need a little reminder every once in a while so I hope this is it . I urge everyone who reads this to take two minutes out of their ever busy schedule to pray for Aleppo and if not that, I hope that tonight when you sit for dinner there's a sincere sense of gratitude for having everything you never asked for, everything you probably don't even deserve.
-Bushra Shaikh
We watch and we ignore because well, it isn't happening to us, or around us. They suffer and endure and have faith. And we sit and complain and complain and complain. Today as you read this, I want you to think about all the blessings that you take for granted, I want you to think about all the times you complained like you were entitled to royalty, like you earned all of it. I want you to take a moment to say Alhumdulillah for all the blessings that you have and many others don't, not because they are bad people, but because Allah chose them for that test. I want you to realize how lucky you are to have a home to go to and people you can call family. We all need a little reminder every once in a while so I hope this is it . I urge everyone who reads this to take two minutes out of their ever busy schedule to pray for Aleppo and if not that, I hope that tonight when you sit for dinner there's a sincere sense of gratitude for having everything you never asked for, everything you probably don't even deserve.
-Bushra Shaikh
😔. Ahamdulillah
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