As we end one year and enter a new one, we should one moment to reflect – to reflect on our responsibilities. We have responsibilities to our family and friends, and our colleagues at work or at school. We should also remember our responsibility to our fellow human beings who may not as better off as we are.
Many of us will be setting New Year’s resolutions to lose weight or try something new every day for the next year. With so much suffering in the world, surely one of the new things must be to help people who maybe suffering from illness and are in poverty. It is our duty not just as Muslims, but as simple human beings to help our fellow man. We shouldn’t stand aside and let suffering affect people who aren’t so different from us.
Most of us have so much to be thankful and grateful for. While we are in our warms homes, there is someone out there in the cold; while we are eating our hot dinner, there is someone out there starving; and while we are fit and healthy, there is someone suffering from illnesses such as malaria or HIV/AIDS.
Are you doing enough to help those suffering? Why not make it your New Year’s resolution to start something new and actively help someone who needs that something small to make a difference.
I wish in the next year I could be involved more to help people living with HIV , to advocate their rights to have better live , medication and care
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