FRIENDS CHARITY GROUP

FRIENDS CHARITY GROUP

 Assalamualaikum warahmatullah, Alhamdulillah for giving us the strength, live and health to witness this day. We send our salutations to the noblest of creatures, the best among people, and the leader of the ummah, a Prophet (s.a.w), a teacher, and upon all the best leader, Muhammad (S.A.W), including his family, noble companions and all who have followed their path till the Day of Judgement. 

 Welcome to Friends Charity Group (FCG), a newly established group with a vision to promote the image of our deen, Islam. 

FCG seeks for your support, encouragement, knowledge and hard work to achieve its purpose.  There are several charity groups out there that help impact on lives of people, some of which started as national and are now international. We want to start a group with the favors Allah has bestowed upon each and every one of us. Most of the charity groups start for the purpose of worldly needs (i.e. to be recognized, to be applauded for etc.). We know of the hadith, “every action is based on the intention it started for”. We don’t want to create only a charity group, we want to promote Islam as a way of life, we want Allah to shower mercy on us, and we want this group to serve as a salvation on the day of judgement, an atonement for our wrong doings, and a path that Allah will in His infinite mercy grant us Paradise. We pray our five daily prayers, act well to our neighbors, and treat our parents with kindness and respect. We thank Allah for guiding us towards this course, and we pray He gives us the ability to do more and earn His mercy. No amount of prayer, fasting, zakat, hajj or any righteous deed will grant paradise to a person, except when the act of Ibadah is coupled with Allah’s acceptance and mercy. The Prophet (s.a.w) said take advantage of five before five;

1. Health before sickness 

2. Wealth before poverty

3. Youth before old age

4. Free time before you get preoccupiedz

5. Life before Death 

 Many of us are familiar with this hadith, of which had awakened a reality within me. One of the beauties of Islam, is that we are given a secure way of life, and the best understanding which gives us the highest strength and motive. It is known, that the one who spends his youth in servitude to Allah, will be rewarded highly, and also be amongst the 7 to be in Allah’s shade on the day where there will be no shade. It is usually within our youth, we have less responsibility, we are at the peak of our health, and we have ample amount of time. The great benefit in this is, if we use our time and efforts in Allah’s way, Allah places baraqah in it. Our Mission Statement “To make a change, with what you have” Activities to be performed by the group

a. Visitations to hospitals (patients)

b. Visitations to orphanages (orphans) 

c. Sponsor orphans 

d. Sowing/planting trees (saddaqatul jariya)

e. Drilling well, boreholes for water

f. National and international donations 

g. Health assistance (doing check-ups for the under-privileged)

h. Donating books to Islamic institutions etc….. There is no definition of enough in the vocabulary of the human soul. This is a start, and we pray Allah give us the ability to successfully carry out what this blessed group is created for. We seek for suggestions to what the group can do with the little we have, to impact on the lives of people. An activity that will attract reward and mercy from Allah even after our death. The Prophet (s.a.w) said, the world has been created for us, and we have been created for the hereafter. This clearly shows that we have to build our hereafter more than our present life. The Prophet (s.a.w) said, "Who among you considers the wealth of his heirs dearer to him than his own wealth?" They replied, "O Allah's Apostle! There is none among us but loves his own wealth more." The Prophet (s.a.w) said, "So his wealth is whatever he spends (in Allah's Cause) during his life (on good deeds) while the wealth of his heirs is whatever he leaves after his death." There are several Verses from the Holy Qur’an, several Hadith of the Prophet (s.a.w). The world would never stop at the death of any man, it will be you and your deeds only to meet Allah. I pray this is the start of a change to how people view Islam. I pray to Allah to guide me, to guide you, our parents and the Muslim ummah till the Day of Judgement. Wasalamulaikum.

 FRIENDS CHARITY GROUP CONTACT:

Twitter: @frendzcharity Facebook: Friends Charity Group Mobile Phones: Farouk Sanusi – 08034716507 Amina Zaji –08032178344 To make a change, with what you have!!!