WINTER CLOTHES DISTRIBUTION CAMPAIGN

Assalamu Alaikum,

We are again by the will of the Almighty Allaah direct our efforts in helping the needy. We will be collecting funds this time to distribute clothes to those poor people of Bangladesh, who are struck with the bitterest of colds. We will be working with Unified Moon Sight who have been doing a great job from the past 2 years. To keep our processes transparent, anybody can travel with us and monitor the distribution process. Details of the programs will be updated later.

Jazakum Allaahu Khairan Katheeran ( May Allah reward all of you with much good). 

Latest Update ( List of Donors, collected amount and paid amount)

Assalamu Alaikum, Jazakumu-Allahu Khair for all your help. The below list contains the names of the donor and the donated amounts , which have been passed on to me. It does not contain the collection which are still with the other collectors. It is also updated with the first installment of our donation. Insha Allah we will soon be following with the rest of the donation.

Serial No.#	Name	Donated Amount (BDT)	Total Collected (BDT)	Amount Paid as of 5/9/2011 (BDT)	Amount in Hand after latest Payment (BDT)
1	Mamataz Begum	2,500.00	205,945.00	80,775.64	125,169.36
2	Mandood Ahmed	2,500.00
3	Tanwir	40,000.00
4	Minhaj Ahmed Ador	5,000.00
5	Moin Imran Chowdhury	500.00
6	Emdadul Haque (Tipu)	2,000.00
7	Raka Tabassum	2,500.00
8	Raihanoor Reza Rayon	2,000.00
9	Noky Sikander Ali	500.00
10	Towsif's Father & Mother	5,500.00
11	Shayan Ghani	5,000.00
12	Salman Masud	500.00
13	Ariful Islam Shawon	2,000.00
14	Ahmed Rabib Towsif (collected)	17,000.00
15	Shilpi Haque	2,000.00
16	Tasmeet Iqbal	1,000.00
17	Ghalib Bakhtiar	2,500.00
18	Ahsan	100.00
19	Sabbir	500.00
20	Abdullah	100.00
21	Ashiq	1,000.00
22	Masud	9,000.00
23	Saif Kabeer	500.00
24	Nabir	1,500.00
25	Rubel Bhai's collection	20,000.00
26	Mariama binte Zakaria	600.00
27	Parents of Anonymous	5,000.00
28	Sumayea	1,000.00
29	Salwa	5,000.00
30	Sabah & Farah	7,000.00
31	Farhana Sharmeen	500.00
32	Shihab	1,000.00
33	Unknown Sister	1,000.00
34	Muhammad Abdul Hafiz	2,500.00
35	Towsif Hasan	500.00
36	Anam Rafi	10.00
37	Aisha	3,500.00
38	Nazmul Haque	2,000.00
39	Asir Sadman	4,000.00
40	Arif	5,000.00
41	Rifat H Khan	1,500.00
42	rafi by Abd Ghalib	200.00
43	Baridhara D.O.H.S masjid	3,500.00
44	Ghalib	500.00
45	Anonymous (3 people)	10,100.00
46	Aqib Haque	1,500.00
47	Ahmed Deedat	8,100.00
48	Shabab Shahriar Khan	2,690.00
49	Salman Masud (01717522056)	500.00
50	Izaz, Sadat, Imtiaz	12,500.00
51	Khalid Mahbub	445.00
52	Zaeem Aziz	100.00

Date	Payment Amount (USD)	Payment Amount (BDT)	exchange rate used
4/9/2011	$1,096.00	80,775.64	1 USD = 73.7004 BDT

Receipt from UWT donation system (online)

Exchange rate used

Will you not then remember?

All praise to Allah, we seek his aid and his assistance, and ask his forgiveness and we seek refuge in Allah from the evil of our souls and from the evil of our actions. Whomever Allah guides, none can mislead him. Whomever he leads astray, none can guide him.

I testify that there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah, alone without partner and that Muhammad (Salla-Allahu-Alayhi-Wa-Sallam) is his slave and Messenger.

"O you who have believed, fear Allah as He should be feared and do not die except as Muslims [in submission to Him]." {Surart Ali-Imran; Verse 102}

"O mankind, fear your Lord, who created you from one soul and created from it its mate and dispersed from both of them many men and women. And fear Allah , through whom you ask one another, and the wombs. Indeed Allah is ever, over you, an Observer." {Surat An-Nisa; Verse 1}

"O you who have believed, fear Allah and speak words of appropriate justice.He will [then] amend for you your deeds and forgive you your sins. And whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger has certainly attained a great attainment." {Surat Al-Ahzab; Verse 70-71}

Indeed the best speech is the speech of Allah, and the best guidance is the guidance of Muhammad (Salla-Allahu-Alayhi-Wa-Sallam). And the worst of matters are those innovated by the people, and every innovated matter (bid’ah)  is misguidance, and every misguidance leads to the fire.

"So which of the favors of your Lord would you deny?" {Surat Ar-Rahman; Verse 13}.

 If we look around for a moment, we will see a ceiling on our heads. And not just any ceiling, our ceilings have Air Conditioners. We have refrigerators that never runs out of food. We waste time on our Macbooks, Vaios and our latest touch phones. We go to expensive private universities and we roll in latest allions, premios, E-class and X-5s. When we sleep, we do not worry about the next day. We do not worry how will we survive the next day. These are nothing, we cannot end counting the favors of Allaah on us.

The people of Somalia also have countless favors on them from Allaah, but at this moment they are being tested as Allaah has said He will test those who believe in Him “And We will surely test you with something of fear and hunger and a loss of wealth and lives and fruits, but give good tidings to the patient,”{Surat Al-Baqarah; Verse 155}. And along with them so are we. 

Their test is to remain patient through this hard time and put their trust in Allaah and our test is how we thank Allaah for our well being and lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters.

I am sure many of us spend more than one GBP (equivalent to 123 BDT appx.) on stuffs that never benefit us. We can be in the same situation one day.

Let us come forward and lend a helping hand.

Sincerely,

Your Brother in Islam

List of Donors

The below list contains the names of the donor and the donated amounts, which have been passed on to me. It does not contain the collection which are still with the other collectors.

Serial No.#	Name	Donated Amount (BDT)	Total (BDT)
1	Mamataz Begum	2,500.00	180,110.00
2	Mandood Ahmed	2,500.00
3	Tanwir	40,000.00
4	Minhaj Ahmed Ador	5,000.00
5	Moin Imran Chowdhury	500.00
6	Emdadul Haque (Tipu)	2,000.00
7	Raka Tabassum	2,500.00
8	Raihanoor Reza Rayon	2,000.00
9	Noky Sikander Ali	500.00
10	Towsif's Father & Mother	5,500.00
11	Shayan Ghani	5,000.00
12	Salman Masud	500.00
13	Ariful Islam Shawon	2,000.00
14	Ahmed Rabib Towsif (collected)	17,000.00
15	Shilpi Haque	2,000.00
16	Tasmeet Iqbal	1,000.00
17	Ghalib Bakhtiar	2,500.00
18	Ahsan	100.00
19	Sabbir	500.00
20	Abdullah	100.00
21	Ashiq	1,000.00
22	Masud	9,000.00
23	Saif Kabeer	500.00
24	Nabir	1,500.00
25	Rubel Bhai's collection	20,000.00
26	Mariama binte Zakaria	600.00
27	Parents of Anonymous	5,000.00
28	Sumayea	1,000.00
29	Salwa	5,000.00
30	Sabah & Farah	7,000.00
31	Farhana Sharmeen	500.00
32	Shihab	1,000.00
33	Unknown Sister	1,000.00
34	Muhammad Abdul Hafiz	2,500.00
35	Towsif Hasan	500.00
36	Anam Rafi	10.00
37	Aisha	3,500.00
38	Nazmul Haque	2,000.00
39	Asir Sadman	4,000.00
40	Arif	5,000.00
41	Rifat H Khan	1,500.00
42	rafi by Abd Ghalib	200.00
43	Baridhara D.O.H.S masjid	3,500.00
44	Ghalib	500.00
45	Anonymous (3 people)	10,100.00

General Information

This blog will be updated with a list of the donors and it will be constantly updated on new donations. The site will also feature updates on our money transfer process which is due 10th of September. The below information has been copy pasted from the previous Facebook events page.

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F.A.Q.s
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Assalamu Alaikum,

Thank you all for your questions. I will try to answer all of them Insha Allah.

1) Who are we ?
A) We are just a group of individuals trying to create a drive/campaign to motivate people to make donations to the starving Muslims of Somalia.

2) If we are just individuals, how do we plan to transfer this money to the drought stricken area and ensure that it reaches them?
A) So far only one muslim organization has been able to reach out to that place, The Ummah Welfare Trust (http://www.uwt.org/site/default.asp). So we plan to transfer the money to them. They have a online donation system, where anyone with an international bank card can donate. Anyone who can not donate online, we can collect the money from them and make a donation online ourselves. And we have also established contact with the organization from where we have been directed towards a partner organization here in Bangladesh. If we can collect large sum of money, we we contact this organization and send the money via them. (Contact details for this organization will be provided below, if anyone is willing to contact them personally.)

3)If we are not related to the organization, what is the security of your money being transfered to the organization ?
A) You really do not need to give the money to us. If you can make the donation online or through any other way you know, then Alhamduli Allah. The sole purpose of this is to push those who are grieved by the events but lack enough motivation to make a donation. And also for those who do not have access to online banking, but want to make a donation.

EDIT: To verify the legitimacy of our connection you can mail Mr. Masud Siddique at m.siddique@uwt.org of Ummah Welfare Trust and ask about giving the money to us. We will be handing the money over to Center for Rights and Development - CRD, 20/7 Pallabi, Dhaka-1216. CRD is a partner organization of Ummah Welfare Trust. CRD has also worked with other numerous charity organizations and NGOs like Muslim Aid. After handing over the money, I will confirm the donation directly from Mr.Masud Siddique. Anyone interested in verifying personally can also do so.

Legal status of CRD:
CRD is registered with the Dept. of Social Services vide registration no. DINAJ-1138/97 dated 27-2-97 and under Foreign Donation Regulation Ordinance and Rules of 1978, vide registration no. 1320/98 dated 14-12-98.

4) Will we provide a receipt for the donations?
A) After the collection, if we make the donation online we will be able to produce a collective receipt of the total collection paid online. But if the donation is made through the partner organization then, we will try to manage one from them. Below is the copy of the e-mail I received from the Project Manager at Ummah Welfare Trust:
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from Masud Siddique m.siddique@uwt.org
sender-time Sent at 5:49 PM (GMT+01:00). Current time there: 12:25 AM.

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to [obscured]@gmail.com
cc Daud Mayat <daud@uwt.org>,
IQBAL RAWAT <irt@uwt.org>
date Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:49 PM
subject RE: Horn of Africa Drought Appeal
mailed-by uwt.org
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Salaam Br. Hasan,

No we do not have any office in Bangladesh. And unfortunately you can’t send

any money out of the country without BB permission

However, if you want you can handover the amount to our partner organization in

Bangladesh. We’ll make the payment here for Africa inshallah on your behalf.

The address is:
Mr. Mohammed Abdul Matin
Centre for Rights & Development
Phone: 01713033893

Was-salaam,

Masud Siddique
Project Manager
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>>>How to donate<<<

We will be collecting the money from 22/08/2011 till 27/08/2011.

From after Fajr till Maghrib.

You can donate your money to:

Mohammed Maksudul Hasan (Anik):

House 314, Road 21, New D.O.H.S., Mohakhali, Dhaka-1206.

Or

Towsif Hasan

House 344, Road 25, New D.O.H.S, Mohakhali, Dhaka-1206.

Or

Abdullah Al-Ghalib

house 211[4th floor]
lane 2
baridhara dohs
dhaka cantt.
dhaka 1206

Or

Tahsin Kabir

98/3, lakecircus , kalabagan.

Or

Noky Sikander Ali

36 first floor, block f, Balur Math, Babar road, Muhammad poor. Dhaka.

Please call before you come.
01717077652 (Noky)
01823295740 (Towsif)
01672210240 (Anik)
01670021706 (Ghalib)
01717047682 (Tahsin)

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|Horn of Africa Drought appeal: http://www.uwt.org/site/appeal.asp?id=617|

10 million Muslims are suffering in the Horn of Africa amidst the worst drought seen in 60 years. Poverty has become extreme: children are dying of starvation, pregnancies are resulting in miscarriages and farmers’ livelihoods are being destroyed.

Many mothers along with their children say they have walked for a month on bare and bloodied feet to refugee camps in Kenya. Journeys of more than 300 miles are common. In their search for food and water, they have slept for weeks on burning sand under open skies.

Water is now so scarce that the governor of the Middle Shabelle region, Abdullahi Moalim Hussain, recently said: ‘Water is so expensive in the area that people are being buried without being washed, which is compulsory in Islam.’

Ummah Welfare Trust is appealing for funds to help feed starving refugees in Dadaab, Northern Kenya.

Rasulallah Salallahu 'alaihi wasallam said: 'Whoever gives charity equal to a date from good earnings – for Allah does not accept anything but that which is good – Allah will take it in His right hand and tend it for the one who gave it as any one of you tends his foal, until it becomes like a mountain.' (Bukhari and Muslim)

Following assessments on the ground, your donations will make the following difference:

£10,000 will feed 1000 families for 10 days.

£30 will feed 1 family for 1 month.

£10 to feed 1 family for 10 days

£1 to feed 1 family for 1 day

The reality is that the people suffering today are being tested by Allah with hunger and thirst; and their ranks will surely increase because of this:

Shaykh Yasin (UWT Head of Operations in Somalia) says, ’They have lost everything, except the deen of Allah which is still strong, walhamdulillah!’

But we are also being tested; and Allah in His infinite Mercy is also giving us an opportunity to increase our ranks. But as members of the Ummah of Muhammad Sallallahu ‘alaihi wa sallam, we have to take a step forward.

http://www.kalamullah.com/somalia.html

This is your chance to help those in need and get your share of rewards from Allah; be generous this month my dear brothers and sisters! We, here in Dhaka, aim to raise atleast BDT 100,000 in sha' Allah. We need your help to stand beside Somalia.

Please spread the news and let everyone know.

Contact no: +8801823295740 (Towsif)
01672210240 (Anik)

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WHY ARE WE COLLECTING MONEY FOR SOMALIA , WHEN THERE ARE ENOUGH POOR PEOPLE IN BANGLADESH?

Answer)

We are aware that the situation in Bangladesh also needs concern and attention. But at this moment the situation in Somalia is terrible (please check the videos posted). It is a record high drought in 60 years. People are dying starving for food and fresh water. They have nothing, they can not grow crops. Their animals are dying as well. The situation is too severe.

And we are not calling for all the money (zakaat or any other charity) to be sent there. Many of us or our parents have zakaat to give, so only if we could spare one-tenth for the brothers and sisters there in the Horn of Africa would not affect the people in Bangladesh. And also, if we could even spare a few thousand taka from our eid shopping it would not hurt us much.

And Allaah knows best.