British-Pakistani family’s act of humanity extends support to needy at home

LONDON: With intentions to serve white-collar destitute people again residence in Pakistan, a United Kingdom-based Pakistani household has distributed over £500,000 within the final 5 years with their touching act of generosity at show.

The household of 4 — comprising the couple Abid Hussain and Rukhsana Shaheen, and their two daughters — perform the colossal activity of finding all these in want on their very own, whereas guaranteeing utmost sensitivity and respect in the direction of them.

The household’s kindness has left an indelible marks on these they’ve have supported and serves as a testomony to the facility of empathy and generosity, and a vital reminder of the necessity for goodness in troublesome instances.

“We take one month’s go away from our respective jobs within the UK a few times a yr and journey throughout Pakistan to personally find white-collar destitute people, who do not go for begging for his or her urgent wants. It’s a hundred donation coverage on all initiatives.

We offer them with no matter is lacking, together with groceries, medical support, wheelchairs, help in establishing companies, paying defaulted hire, operation expenditures, and different amenities, all at their doorstep,” the household mentioned.

Abid Hussain and Rukhsana Shaheen, a Pakistani couple who migrated from Rawalpindi to Bradford 35 years in the past, have made it their mission to convey solace to these in want and to point out that one act of kindness could make a long-lasting affect on an individual’s life.

The household has put in greater than 600 tubewells in water-scarce areas of Pakistan, constructed a mosque price over £30,000 in Yemen, and established non secular seminaries in Africa, Syria, and Lebanon. At the moment, they’re trying to find land to determine a big shelter residence within the federal capital Islamabad with all the mandatory amenities.

Regardless of receiving presents from varied charity organisations to hitch them, the household prefers to work independently. Within the UK, they distribute groceries and different requirements to the homeless and unemployed; whereas in Pakistan, they distribute flour, money, prayer mats, and copies of the holy Quran amongst deserving home staff in Media City, Islamabad.

Rukhsana shared that the concept of serving struggling humanity got here to her after the demise of a relative, realising that life is non permanent and he or she wished to dedicate herself in addition to her household in the direction of serving to these in want.

She believed that the world is fleeting and that one ought to try to do good on this life to arrange for the hereafter. Beginning with educating the holy Quran to kids, Rukhsana’s daughter, Rummana Shaheen, referred to as ‘ustadha’ or instructor, based and at present heads “The Rahman Academy”, which offers non secular training to kids and others in Bradford.

In response to reaching those that can’t entry the madrasa bodily, the academy has not too long ago expanded to supply on-line programs to college students worldwide. With over 250 college students, at present enrolled in varied programs and modules, Ustadha Rummana attracts on her 10 years of educating expertise to rekindle the love of faith by means of understanding and observe.

Her dedication to training and repair is mirrored in her household’s charitable work in Pakistan, the place they’ve served the struggling humanity at their doorstep. In 2018, Ustadha Rummana travelled to Tarīm, Yemen to go to the famend Dar al-Zahra college based by Habib Umar bin al-Hafiz.