Letter to editor on domestic violence

Would like to bring Canadian professionals to conduct workshops on domestic violence

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Dear Editor,

Allow me to write on behalf of those troubled families who continue to lose loved ones to the evil tragedy of domestic violence. While I’m heartened at times by the progress in educating and legislating on this critical matter, it is still not enough, as more women and children and even men are victims of this ‘love that kills.’

I am trying to bring professionals from Canada to conduct workshops and hear first hand the horror stories within the Guyana  context, while sharing their own successful  models to help victims survive and fight  domestic violence in Canada. I hope I will get a favourable response from  both social agencies and religious bodies responsible for educating and guiding our adherents in the straight path.

Yours faithfully,
Habeeb Alli

EID POEM

YOU CAME BY INTO MY NIGHT
STEALING MY SLEEP YOU, WALKED OVER MY DREAMS
WITH ENDLESS WHISPERS OF REPENTANCE
YOU SANG THE QURAN ON MY WINDOW SIDE

NOW THAT YOU TAKE LEAVE BY THE NEW MOON
MY TRAVELS ACROSS  OCEANS AND MOSQUES
MY SWEET MEMORIES OF BREAKING FASTS
THE TWINKLE IN MY EYES WILL NOW FADE

OH MONTH OF ABSTINENCE
OF TIME TO GIVE CHARITY WITHOUT MEASUREMENT
OF SEASON OF FAMILY AND FRIENDS
DO TAKE MY ADDRESS WHEN YOU JOIN SHABAN I MAKE AMENDS!

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On 2013-08-07 01:18:54.0 a story was written by Habeeb Alli who lives in Scarborough, Canada. You may find them on social media.  facebook   twitter    

Breaking fast with inmates

Ramadan Mubarak!

That may be a cliche for many but those incarcerated behind bars knows the value of Ramadan more than ever.

They relish to fast and break their fasts with families and friends. Muslims in prison wish they could listen to the Quran during Taraweeh or get new clothes for Eid.

Today I organised an iftar dinner with such men. Around the table were folks of varied backgrounds. One man said he fasted for two weeks and then weakened out. He is sorry and wanted to know how he can make it up. I said Allah forgives all sins and after Ramadan you could fasts the missed ones. Another brother said he was working in laborious construction and could not fast. He wanted to give away his hard earned dollars in charity instead. I said that is the spirit behind zakat in Ramadan- to empathize when you give charity with the needy but Islam doesn't want you to give away all your wealth, only 2.5 % after savings. Yet another wanted to know why Muslims fasts without drinking water. As their Imam, I mentioned that the thirst of summer is sometimes harder than the hunger of the long hours. All in the metamorphosis of the soul, as one takes 30 days usually to develop a habit, so too we character build kindness through our disciplined fast of one month.

The best though was the brother who had spent his last days behind curfews and conditions so he may be successful when he leaves for home. Today he returned to participate in the iftar dinner, serving us with his own hands gladly. He said that he had prayed for this day when that he could return the favors to this Christian run organisation, that had provided halal meals to him daily. As a Muslim he is so grateful that even if he has a single grain of rice he must not eat all of it. He wants the men to see that they too can do it! He used take the bus three hours to work and one hour to mosque so he could make his return to civil society meaningful, the way the new moon of Eid makes us all joyous and gives meaning to our entire Ramadan- time of recompense. Today I can say my journey with men and women behind bars was like the New Moon of Eid!



Never judge the date without a bite!



Eid Saeed and Kulli aam wa antum bikhair!

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EID GREETINGS

Dear Editor

I would like to take the kind opportunity to extend warmest greetings for our compatriots celebrating Eid. 

After a month long fasting, regular nightly prayers and calculated charity it's time to celebrate. 

My recent visit to Guyana ushers a new era of development as well as the satisfactory growth of the Faith as we delight in the glorious rebuilt of the historic Queenstown Grand Mosque. With this prosperity in mind we have much more to give and Eid is not completed unless we feed a hearty meal to a needy. I remember how my father taught us to share our coins on the spread hand kerchiefs of those present at Enmore mosque.

This year I especially took on the issue of funding water projects around the world, nostalgic of my own days of searching for water 

in the land of many.

Love will win and as a nation I envisage a family united under faith from all colors under one Godliness. That's the mantra we sing on our way to prayers this day- God you are great and to you belong all praises and thanks.

Sincerely

Habeeb Alli

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Habeeb Alli

Every day I stop by Brother Peter

He crosses children at the school street

He gives me the latest updates on back home

It’s so depressing all this white stuff and killing drones

But when I met a man in Mexico, a Canadian

He was in his teen

When he arrived in New Brunswick in 68

And little did he know his roots until he met me

I told him of how our people are everywhere

The governor of British Columbia was from Mahaica

In the World Bank and Iceland we hitting six and fours

That Guyanese are UN role models, how come you don’t know partner?

He said there was a Guyanese name Erol Williams

Like Mr. Hinds he too was a New Brunswick alumnus

He made a documentary of the legendary Black Scotia ball player Oley

But that was not all

He produced the national story of post slavery in a small island

Yes a GT banna is hero in little Bermuda Triangle

The people there are so grateful that someone could tell their story

So on the screen you e our children must see Guyana as the country!

So my Canuk and Ameriki we are more than curry and Cuffy!

We ain’t care about your divide and rule policy

All we want is to pray and make money

All we got is alumni like Forbes, Rodney and Cheddi!

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Habeeb Alli

I’m every where

I’m life

Oceans and snow, rivers and rain showers

I’m so much yet quite little

In abundance of me the fool is thirsty

Millions die from lack of me or greed for me

Don’t make your donations selfish, make them tax deductible

I wait like a bride for someone special to find me

I want to be in buckets and iftar cups this Ramadan

Flowing through wells, filling trucks, rushing through handheld pumps

I want to be saving children, some 30 000 die daily

Look in Pakistan, Palestine, Alberta and Africa, why this folly?

But alas, someone’s prayer

Where is my knight in shining armor?

Where is my Nelson Mandela or my Terry Fox, if you know what I mean?

Who will send me their Zakat this Ramadan and God willing theirs is Kauthar

I’m the source of life

Water 4 life is my name

I’m waiting breathlessly on your love, Oh Canada, eh?

So my dying brother may have Eid, not shahada!

You may use any pipe, any drill

But be reassured of where and with who you dig

For a registered charity of twenty nine years is for me big

Isn’t your Faith about saving, not taking lives, Mr. Goodwill?

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