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