VOICE OF GLOBAL UMMAH

VOICE OF GLOBAL UMMAH
August 14, 2010

St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Editors: Mohamed & Rashida Ziauddin

In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficial and the Most Merciful

SPECIAL EDITION:
FLOODS IN PAKISTAN

Prophet Mohamed (SAW) stated:

"The believers in their mutual kindness, compassion and sympathy are just like one body. When one of the limbs suffers, the whole body responds to it with wakefulness and fever". [Al-Bukhari and Muslim].

Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said, "The relationship of the believer with another believer is like (the bricks of) a building, each strengthens the other.'' He (PBUH) illustrated this by interlacing the fingers of both his hands. [Al-Bukhari and Muslim].

The Noble Prophet (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) foretold about the coming of such people in the Hadith narrated by "Abu-Yaa'li" on the authority of "Huzaifah" who said:

The Noble Prophet (sallal laahu alaihi wasallam) said:

"What I fear most for you, is a man who reads the Qur'an until such time when the blessing of Qur'an is reflected on him and he takes Islam as his Cloak ... he then turns around and strips himself off from Islam and then tosses it away behind his back, then he heads quickly towards his neighbour with his sword unsheathed and he calls him a 'MUSHRIK'"

I said: "O, Prophet of Allah! Who is more worthy of being called a MUSHRIK the one being attacked or the attacker". He replied, "It is indeed the attacker."

EDITORIAL:

The floods in Pakistan has been of catastrophic proportions. Thousands of people in Pakistan have been impacted. We appeal to the global ummah to do their best to assist the flood victims of Pakistan. It is unfortunate that as per several media reports, there is lot of reluctance to aid Pakistan because of it being perceived in a negative way especially as it pertains to be a haven for training terrorists et.c. Please keep in mind that the majority of the flood victims are women and children and in this holy month of Ramadan, bring out THE BEST IN YOU in terms of assisting the flood victims.

A PICTURE SPEAKS A THOUSAND WORDS

Graphic on the flood situation in Pakistan Wednesday. Pakistan issued fresh flood warnings on Wednesday, putting parts of Punjab and Sindh on alert and calling on foreign donors to step up to contain the country's worst humanitarian disaster.(AFP)

A child of flood victims who suffers from severe dehydration receives medical treatment in a hospital in Multan, in Punjab province, August 23, 2010. Pakistan's worst floods in decades have left millions hungry, the United Nations said on Monday, while parts of the south were on high alert for rising waters that could further tax aid groups. REUTERS/Reinhard Krause

US rescue helicopters arrive at Pakistan's Ghazi Base on August 22. Authorities in Pakistan were battling on Monday to save a city in the flood-devastated southern province of Sindh after a mass evacuation as flood waters threatened to wreak further havoc.(AFP/Aamir Qureshi)

A soldier evacuates an elderly man through rising flood waters in Baseera, a village in the Muzaffargarh district of Pakistan's Punjab province on August 10, 2010.REUTERS/Adrees Latif

A Pakistan family use plastic sheeting to protect themselves from rain as they wait for transport to evacuate them area along a road in Shekarpur, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Angry flood survivors in Pakistan blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort.(AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

A Pakistani woman weeps as she stands with others crowding around a Pakistan Army helicopter after it arrived to deliver food aid for the United Nations World Food Program in the flood encircled village of Tul in , Sindh Province, southern Pakistan, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010.(AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

Pakistani flood survivors clamour for donated food at a camp established by local volunteers on the outskirts of Sukkur on August 10. Filling a void created by the perceived failure of the civilian government to mobilise, fears are growing in the United States that Islamic charities are using soft power to propagate extremism in the nuclear-armed state.(AFP/File/Asif Hassan)

Pakistani soldiers ride in a boat with villagers rescued from a flooded village. The United States has increased its flood aid to 55 million dollars and the United Nations is to launch an international appeal for several hundred million dollars, saying that six million people are depend on help to survive.(AFP/Arif Ali)

Pakistani flood survivors run after a truck which is distributing food relief on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 in Muzaffargarh, near Multan, Pakistan. Angry flood survivors blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo / K.M. Chaudary)

Pakistani villagers shift their household items through a flooded area of Pathan Wala. Pakistan won more aid pledges after concerns that money is not comingthrough fast enough to help 20 million people hit by unprecedented floods and stave off a "second wave of death" from disease.(AFP/Banaras Khan) (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Graphic outlining major economic and health impacts of the catastrophic flooding in Pakistan. Fears mounted for the survivors of floods in Pakistan as the UN prepared Thursday to drum up more aid and John Kerry became the first senior US policymaker to visit since the crisis which has affected millions.(AFP)

Pakistani flood survivors jostle for a sack of flour distributed by volunteers, in Muzaffargarh, near Multan, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Angry flood survivors blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

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Female flood victims weep with their children after having rice, donated by passing vehicles, snatched by a group of men as they took refuge along the roadside with thousands of others in Pakistan's Muzaffargarh district of Punjab province August 16, 2010. Pakistani flood victims, burning straw and waving sticks, blocked a highway on Monday to demand government help as aid agencies warned relief was too slow to arrive for millions without clean water, food and homes.REUTERS/Adrees Latif

Pakistani flood survivors collect food relief dropped from a truck, in Muzaffargarh, near Multan, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Angry flood survivors blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

VIDEO - Almost 14 million people have been affected by Pakistan's worst ever floods. Children are among the most vulnerable with diarrhoea the biggest health threat and measles a serious concern. Images and soundbites from a mobile medical clinic near Charsadda. Duration: 01:19(AFPTV/MSF)

Stranded Pakistani child looks to his father A stranded Pakistani child looks to his father as he with his family members rescued by a U.S. helicopter from Kalam, in Pakistan's Swat Valley, Tuesday,Aug. 17, 2010. The U.S. had committed at least $87 million in aid and expected to give more in the coming days.

A Pakistani flood survivor sits in a shelter made of plastic sheeting to avoid rain on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 in Muzaffargarh, near Multan, Pakistan. Angryflood survivors blocked a highway to protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

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A nurse prepares to give antibiotic shots to a young Pakistani girl suffering from diarrhea after evacuating a flooded area, at the hospital in Sukkar,Sindh province, southern Pakistan, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010.(AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

Graphic showing flooded areas and toll. Pakistani authorities evacuated tens of thousands from flood-threatened areas in the south but insisted that the 2.5 million people of Hyderabad were safe from the nation's worst-ever inundation. (AFP/Graphic)

Local residents use donkeys to transport foodstuffs in Shangla, in northern Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. Pakistan's worst floods in recorded history began more than two weeks ago in the mountainous northwest and have spread throughout the country.(AP Photo/Sherin Zada)

A displaced girl who survived heavy floods stands outside her tent in Nowshera, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010. Workers piled stones and sandbags toplug leaks in a levee protecting a pair of southern Pakistani cities Monday, as the floods that have destroyed homes, farmland and livelihoods moved slowly toward the sea.(AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

Pakistani flood survivors approach for safe area Monday, Aug. 16, 2010 in Muzaffargarh, near Multan, Pakistan. Angry flood survivors blocked a highwayto protest slow delivery of aid and heavy rain lashed makeshift housing Monday as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort. (AP Photo / K.M. Chaudary)