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10 October 2003 Update
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1. What Happened to the Emergency Appeal Collection?
2. Charity Fundraising Dinner: Saturday 11th October
3. About Yuniss Rgis
4. Paying Financial Debts of a dead person
5. Contact Us
==== 1. What Happened to the Emergency Appeal Collection? ====
Assalaamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatu.
A number of brothers have asked why NO ANNOUNCEMENT was made at the
Jumah
Prayer regarding the Emergency Appeal? And why NO MONEY WAS COLLECTED after
the Jumah Prayers outside the Abu Bakr Siddiq Mosque?
We did arrange with the Secretary of the Mosque to make an
announcement
regarding the death of our brother Yuniss, along with a request that money
be collected after Jumah Prayer to be sent to Yuniss' family to help pay
the hefty medical bill. We provided a printed e-mail which could be used for
the announcement along with collection box labels which we printed in time
for Jumah.
The Mosque agreed to make an announcement and collect the money and
have it
sent to the emergency appeal via the Cambridge Muslim Community Services
(CMCS).
Unfortunately, due to poor communication and lack of co-ordination
within
the Mosque Committee itself, no announcement was made regarding the appeal.
Instead money was collected for As-Shifa school in Oxford instead.
We have talked to Secretary of the Mosque, and asked again that he
ensures that next week's collection goes to Yuniss' emergency appeal fund.
And we have also asked that a clear announcement is made at the Jumah Prayer
(Friday 17th October) insha Allah.
May Allah rewards all those who help their brothers and sisters
when in need
and who contribute only for Allah's sake alone.
Wasalam
Elias Karim
==== 2. Charity Fundraising Dinner: Saturday 11th October ====
Tomorrow's TALK & DINNER event will now become a Charity
Fundraising Dinner
Event. We will be collecting donations for the Yuniss family Emergency
Appeal at tomorrow's event insha Allah.
TALK & DINNER: "The Miracles of the Qur'an"
A talk by Abdur-Rahim Green followed by dinner:
Saturday 11th October 2003
6.30pm - 9.00pm
Coleridge Community College,
Radegund Road, Cambridge.
The food is FREE, but we will be asking for voluntary donations.
All
donations received will go to Yuniss' Emergency Appeal insha Allah.
Please try to attend to make this a successful charity event.
==== 3. About Yuniss Rgis ====
Our brother Yuniss Rgis passed away Thursday 9th October.
"Due us to Allah that which He has taken away and His is whatever
He has
given. With Him, everything has an appointed term; so have patience and seek
reward from Him" [Al-Bukhari]
Please make Dua' for Yuinss and his family.
Yuniss was extremely ill in hospital. He was staying in Northwich
Park
Hospital, London.
He was 37 years old with a wife and three children. He arrived in
England
about a month ago to get a second opinion on his heart condition.
Unfortunately, he collapsed at Heathrow airport just as he arrived. He was
rushed off to hospital and since then the Muslim brothers and sisters in
London have been trying to raise money for a heart operation as his
condition has deteriorated.
Unfortunately, the money he brought with him from Morocco for scans
etc
was nowhere near sufficient so the Muslims in London managed to raise
£17,000 to help cover the costs of £25,000+ to cover the increasing expenses
of the clinic.
There is currently a short fall of about £9,000 that must be paid
to the
Hospital and to brothers (that have provided interest-free loans of up to
£6,000).
==== 4. Paying Financial Debts of a dead person ====
From Benefiting the Dead
Dr. Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips
Chapter 6 from "Funeral Rites in Islaam"
by Dr. Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips
© Copyright 1996 Dar Al-Fatah
http://islaam.com//Article.aspx?id=246
Paying Financial Debts
Anyone may cover the debts of a dead person, whether they are relatives
or not. Furthermore, the payment of outstanding debts can benefit the dead
by relieving them from some of the punishment due to them for their
negligence in repaying them.
Jaabir said: A man died and we washed him, perfumed him and shrouded
him. Then we brought him to Allaah's Messenger (sallallaahu `alayhi wa
sallam) to lead the funeral prayer for him. We asked, "Could you pray for
him?" He took a step forward then asked, "Does he have any outstanding
debts?" We answered: "Two deenaars." [He said, "Make the funeral prayer for
your companion," and] [This addition can be found in another narration of
the hadeeth] began to leave. Aboo Qataadah took responsibility for [paying]
them, saying, "The two deenaars are my responsibility." Allaah's Messenger
(sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam) asked, "Will the creditor be taken care of
and will the dead person be absolved from them?" He replied, "Yes," so the
Prophet (sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam) led the funeral prayer for him. One
day later he asked [Aboo Qataadah], "What was done about the two deenaars?"
He replied, "He only died yesterday!" The following day he returned to the
Prophet (sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam) and said, "I have paid them off."
The Messenger of Allaah (sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam) said, "Now his skin
has become cool."
[Musnad Ahmad, vol.3, p.330; authenticated in Ahkaamul-Janaa’iz, p. 16]
For the full extract see:
http://www.CambridgeMuslims.info/Newsletter/CMO/Oct03/cmo09Oct03update.htm
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