Skip to main content

Manchester Muslims Launch Campaign to Combat Food Poverty

A Muslim charity has launched a national campaign to combat food poverty, sharing recipes and encouraging people to cook at home.

“With the ongoing pandemic, we’ve come to realize how many families and vulnerable people have really been affected,” Muhammad Ahmad Khurshid, the imam of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community charity, told Mancunian Matters.

“There are also children who aren’t going to school and they are struggling through this period too.

“As Muslims, striving to help those in need is one of the most fundamental parts of our faith.”

📚 Read Also: Be Grateful for Your Countless Blessings

Their new Cheap and Easy Cooking online campaign has shared cost saving meals using easy to follow recipes and video tutorials.

Along with recipes, starter packs were also donated to food banks to help those in need.

Other Initiatives

The charity has also helped with other initiatives in the North West such as providing a call center and a place to stay in their mosque during severe flooding.

“We were making deliveries for almost three or four months on a daily basis to the vulnerable around the city,” Khurshid said.

“Making such contributions is nothing to be proud of, it’s something which is part of our faith, and we do so voluntarily because it’s a fundamental part of our faith, and many Muslims do work like this without telling anyone.

“It’s the biggest honor that we’ve had, serving the city of Manchester, and it was essential to Manchester.

“If everyone thinks of it as, this is my part to play in the community, then slowly more and more people will start to play their part, and we will see a national change happen.”

Islam encourages Muslims to treat their neighbors in a gentle way that reflects the true and genuine spirit of Islam as exemplified in its tolerant aspect especially with people of other faiths.

It makes no difference whether the neighbors are Muslim or non-Muslim.

This falls in line with what the Muslim community across the UK have been doing since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic.

In Norwich, a local Muslim eatery has been giving out free hot meals to the needy.

In December 2020, the Rose Lane Mosque teamed up with The East Anglian Bangladesh Trust and with St Martins Housing Trust to provide 120 meals on a weekly basis for the homeless.

The post Manchester Muslims Launch Campaign to Combat Food Poverty appeared first on About Islam.



source https://aboutislam.net/muslim-issues/europe/manchester-muslims-launch-campaign-to-combat-food-poverty/
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

List of Times and Places Where Dua is Accepted

A short reminder regarding the recommended times of dua . And I think what you need to know here is that the recommended times of dua or recommended things that can cause your dua to be accepted, can be divided into two sort of large groups: Am I Good Enough to Make Dua for Myself? Situations where your dua is accepted. Times where your dua is accepted So I’m going to very briefly mention them one after the other as much as possible. As for situations where your dua has been accepted: – The person who has been wronged or oppressed . – A person who finds themselves in severe difficulty after a calamity has struck. – The person who is traveling. – Someone who is fasting. – The one who is reciting the Quran or has just recited the Quran – Someone who is performing Hajj or Umrah or jihad. – The one who is making dua for someone in their absence . Because we know that when you make dua for someone in his absence an angel says: “ Ameen and to you”. – A person...
Post a Comment
Read More »

Ghuraba (The Strangers): Nasheed with English Subtitles

Islam began as something strange, and it shall return to being something strange, so give glad tidings the strangers. (Sahih Muslim 145) This famous nasheed has many versions; this one is from Muhammad al-Salman and has the subtitles in English embedded. [We are] strangers and we do not bow the foreheads to anyone besides Allah  […] Transliteration to help in the pronounciation:  Ghurabaa’ wa li ghairillaahi laa nahnil jibaa Aisha Stacey  wrote in an article for Aboutislam.net : “I think that many of you would agree that being Muslim in the 21st century makes you well acquainted with being strange. It might even be a metaphor for random, as in you have been randomly selected. […] many converts to Islam will tell you about feeling as if they were strangers, before finding Islam. They will speak of feeling that they belonged somewhere else that their lives were just slightly off center. They often speak about a vague sense of knowing they were not like everyone else...
Post a Comment
Read More »

Taqwa – Living the Main Purpose of Ramadan

Taqwa is a major purpose for the month of Ramadan. The people of taqwa are those who do the things that they are commanded and avoid the things which Allah has made prohibitive. And evidently, to reach a state of taqwa requires vigilance, it requires patience and sincerity. The verse is pertaining to fasting I found in a single set of verses in chapter 2 starting at verse 183: O you who have believed, decreed upon you is fasting as it was decreed upon those before you that you may become righteous. ( 2:183 ) A Collective Act of Worship Allah is telling us that fasting has been made obligatory and then Allah tells us that just as it was prescribed for those before us. We often get asked this question in Ramadan, “how’s the fast going for us?” And if we gave ourselves a moment to think about it, we see that Allah Most High has made the fast inside the month of Ramadan easy for us because we know that there is a collective spirit to fasting; we know that we’re not alone in this ...
Post a Comment
Read More »