Utter despair and havoc grips humanity today. All across the globe humans are facing every kind of challenge imaginable. When our world is in despair, how can we stay strong and steadfast in matters of Deen and Dunya? How can we be patient through massacres? How can we stay content through gut-wrenching poverty and famine? Today in South East Asia a group of Muslims is suffering greatly. The Muslims of Myanmar, the Rohingya, are being massacred in their homeland and are in misery in their new homes. Human trafficking, rape, and murder are abundantly present throughout. Hundreds of thousands of Muslims have been displaced because of oppression. Among these Muslims, some have come forward and revealed their experiences. Abdul Kadir is one of the Muslims who have spoken out about these atrocities. He says, “We are Rohingya,” “No say Rohingya in Myanmar. No say.” He was an Imam in a northern Rakhine village. The question appears again, how can we stay content? The answer lies in religion. Allah himself tells us “ So be patient. Indeed the promise of Allah is truth”. Allah tells us to be patient. It is a simple world. But the weight of the word and action are heavy. We must trust Allah that he has a plan for us. He knows what we are going through. He knows how much hardship we can take and when we will break. If the creator of all the worlds, the expanding universe, and the 8.7 million species tells us that we are strong enough for every test, how can we not believe him? Prophet Muhammad said, “Look at those who are less fortunate than yourselves, not at those who are better off than yourselves so that you will not belittle the blessings that Allah has bestowed upon you” (Al-Mundhiri) As people who have been blessed immensely we must think of those who have not been as fortunate as us. We must think of the Rohingya struggling to find land, the Syrians who are stuck in a seemingly endless civil war, and the Palestinians who have been robbed of their homeland.
A Rohingya Muslim reads from the Quran in one of the few undamaged mosques in northern Rakhine State, in Ngan Chaung Village, Maungdaw Township
Source: New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/world/asia/rohingya-myanmar-repatriation.htm
