Pukhtana’s Blog

Maybe we were all too young to help out when our brothers and sisters needed help in Afghanistan, ( i certainly was) in this day of modern fast paced communication can we afford to stay quite and immobile whilst we watch OUR PEOPLE, suffer again and again.

There are many ways to help, the basic is to feel sympathy, but instead make a dua and  make a donation or even better actually physically help out and do something active!

Which ever way you do it, just remember, it could be our families in Pukhtukhwa next, who will help them or us out?

I hope all those of us that talk of Pukhtun Unity, and Pashtun Pride, and all those that talk of being Pakistani, and most importantly those that talk of being a united Islamic world, or just basic humanity, i hope you will all come forward now, and prove your worth and stick by your words, do it openly to inspire others, and secretly just to be rewarded by Allah.

I hope you will all at least make some sort of contribution, these are a people in need, and we are all in need of being unified, as Pukhtuns, as Muslims.

To donate now online, via well established Islamic Charities please visit:

http://www.islamic-relief.com/Emergencies-And-Appeals/emergency.aspx?emID=58

or

http://www.muslimhands.org/en/gb/appeals/swat_pakistan/

If anyone is planning on going to Pukhtunkhwa to help out in the camps or any other way can you please let me and the wider online pashtun Community know? Isn’t it possible to organise something ourselves?

We have well established Pukhtuns and Pukhtaneh throughout the west, isn’t finally time we unified for this and used our health and wealth, our youth and intelligence and everything else Allah has blessed us with, for the better of our people, in a time of great need?

I personally think it is going to get worse, as one of the men in an aid camp in Mardan said to the reporter on Al Jazerah, we are doing all that we can, but we hear the  planes flying over head, we can’t even tell if we will be here for long.

We need to put something in place to help out long term. This is how many UK Islamic Charities started out, maybe we should all start living our dreams of ” i wish to one day help my people” and start saying “I am helping my people, for Allah’s sake, who wants to join me?”

I could give various Islamic quotes and references of the benefits of helping out in a time like this, but i don’t think i should need to, it is a basic human instinct, mercy, show it please, for the Sake of Allah.