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can anyone send some stuff to someone in belgium? |
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jannah |
02/11/02 at 08:08:23 |
I received this in Nov. Very sad really... but does anyone have any islamic magazines or anything they could send? esp if you live in england or germany as this person lives in Belgium. Let me know and i'll madina message you the address As salaamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu ; Dear brother , First my apologies for writing to you in this way . I'm a 3 month old belgian convert to Islam and I have a very sick english muslimah wife who converted to Islam along with me and I would like to ask any muslims for help if they want to! In fact my wife doesn't know what I'm doing but she knows I want to help her as I allways have in the past ! I'm a devout muslim and a 43 year old father with my British wife and our 2 children , a son of 13 and a daughter of 10 . I married when I was 30 and was on one hand blessed with two lovely noisy kids - my youngest one , my daughter goes twice a week now to the mosque in the weekend ! - and on the other hand I was struck with two tragedies : the suicide of my mother who had been depressed since the early 80's and the sickness of my wife ; after the birth of my children she was struck with an extreme form of post natal depression : post natal depressive psychosis ( she was a lot of times on the brink of suicide ) wich she still suffers from and has to take a large amount of medication for ! The result of this disease is that I am unable to go working cause she cannot be left alone for a long time cause she might relapse and hurt herself !! Now , I have always believed deep down there was God and I have allways liked reading and studying .About three months ago I was excited when the BBC announced Open University was going to do a series of documentaries for two weeks , made by muslims on Islam and called " LIVING ISLAM " !! From the first testimonies and programs I was hit as by many spiritual arrows straight in my heart and soul ! Islam was the answer to all questions about life I had always been searching for and I thanked and prayed to Allah ! I talked a lot to my spouse and showed her the documentaries and she too became a muslimah !! But we have a problem that is twofold ; I've told you my wife is british , quiet , because of her disease not accepted by my unbelieving family and she knows no-one here , there are no local muslimah gatherings and she's very lonely ! To alleviate her loneliness she used to watch all the soaps " Corrie " "Eastenders " , " Bold & the horrible " ,"Emmerdale" etc.... but since she became a muslim she sees right trough them and finds them horrible and demoralizing ( for instance in the soaps it's shown that people have to drink alcohol with mates to have a good time , the adultery going on all the time what an evil message to people and especially kids ! ) and she doesn't watch them anymore to my relief too ! But there are so many good muslim books , tracts and magazines in english like Q magazine or other english muslim women or family magazines that I've heard about but we can't afford them ! So I would like to ask anyone who can afford it if they could help us with used english language muslim magazines that they don't need any more or can spare to give to my ill wife something to lift her spirit and guide her ; we have received a few great books from some english and american brothers and sisters but they are too difficult for her , one person send us a few magazines which she devours but most of the books are above her schooling level unfortunately !! So again I don't like to bec but I have no choice , please brother if you have any secondhand material ; muslim mags whatever, anything you don't need or can afford to give away !! What a pity that for us , poor and unemployed muslims in the west , we can afford to buy food but spiritual food like books , magazines are beyond our means , please I want to tell you I don't want to be unemployed but my wife has got a severe mental disease and can't be left on her own for long and I do not want to put her in an insane asylum ( I did it once before I became a muslim for 5 months and she became worse !! ) If we had lived in a good muslim country maybe the family would have taken care of her whilst I went working but here it's people looking after themselves and there's no real family or community life where people look after each other ! Please accept my apologies for "scrounging", I really hate to beg but I don't know what else to do !! If someone would be willing to send us something I gladly would pay the postage ! my adress is : Belgium May Allah bless you ! As salaamu alaikum wa rahmatullah. |
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eleanor |
02/11/02 at 09:09:21 |
slm I'd like to help but I don't have any magazines.. :( I have a good few books in english.. but that's not really what he's looking for is it? If I can help in any other way let me know Insha Allah. wasalaam eleanor |
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Mona |
02/11/02 at 19:11:06 |
assalamu alaikum, I think Muslim organizations should be able to help them out if they contact them. They should contact the Muslim World League's office in London London Muslim World League Office 46 Goodge Street, London W, 1 Tel: 6375034 Fax:6375034 or other closer offices (check http://www.arab.net/mwl/offices.htm) for free past copies of their publications. I am sure helping individuals falls under the dawa mandate of this particular organization. Wassalam |
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