Support A Gaza Sufi Family This Ramadan, After Starvation

"One who serves becomes the master" - Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya

Dear readers,

With our combined donations, together we were able to save a beautiful Sufi family in North Gaza from dying of starvation during the past year.

Now, it’s Ramadan, which began February 28th. Ramadan is the most holy month of the year for Muslims. They’re fasting the entire month and praying for the Creator’s mercy and blessings. Our Sufi family needs to buy meat to replenish their strength after months of starvation and genocide. Food is still costly in Gaza, especially in the north.

When our Sufi family returned home, they found their neighborhood destroyed. Their house has no walls, and it’s been a freezing winter for them. Their belongings were ruined. They are in need of food and water, warm winter clothes, and warm blankets/bedding. They also must repair the damage to their home.

Muslims believe our charity towards people less fortunate than ourselves, brings blessings in return. But during the month of Ramadan, the blessing of your giving is returned many times magnified.

Please consider donating to the campaign in support of our Sufi family in Gaza. All of your donations go directly to the Sufi family. I volunteer my time to help them and I always give what I can to the campaign.

Donate to a Sufi family here.

Read more about our Sufi family here.

From the words of my Sufi friend:

“The starvation begins again in Gaza. They closed the borders and prevent food entering, dear. The price goes higher and higher and we can't get food. We’ve completely run out of money.
Fear has come back to our hearts and no one is feeling good. We don't know what is going to happen this time, maybe they will kill us all.
It's Ramadan month which should be beautiful peaceful month but they are going to make it bloody. I am so sorry dear for these bad news but I run to you to express my fears and feelings 😔 also, you are the one who can help and support us.❤️

While the world lives in peace and comfort, we Palestinian Gazans are still struggling in our simple lives, as all Palestinians living in Gaza. For more than 15 months under a huge genocide war, we paid a huge price on our souls and all that we have. We saw all kind of death, killing, starving and evacuating under a huge bombs. Our home was destroyed partly and my brother got badly injured in last Ramadan, while he searched for food to feed us.

Our close relatives were killed in their home while they were sleeping, we faced death many times face to face, and it was a terrible, tough time. I don't like even to remember it.
We were prevented food and became starving 😫 and that was the bad, hard moments in this genocide. We used to eat one time a day and our food was some herbs and grass. Watching the children starve was the hardest for us, as we were unable to do anything. The Israeli occupation allowed very little food to enter at that time by some merchants and that made the price of canned food so high. For example, one can of food was selling for $20 to $30. This was one of the occupation’s tactic, to let people fight each other to get food. In fact, the occupation succeeded in that. People began to fight and kill each other to get food, 😒 unfortunately.
I didn't know what to do at that time but of course I couldn’t stand to watch my family starving and slowly dying. So I messaged my old friend, Dr. Ariyana Love. Actually she is my American teacher, with the most beautiful heart I have ever seen after my mother's heart ❤️. She was relieved that I was still alive ❤️. I explained to her what we are going through and she got a brilliant idea to make a campaign ❤️. Indeed she did it and began to raise donations for us. Then she sent money to us and kept us alive.❤️ I was able to buy some food and feed our children to try to stop them starving. We the older ones ate one little meal a day.
After a while the campaign did not work good enough and that caused us to starve again but then the next campaign was started by Dr. Love and Dr. Fatima from UAE. Dr. Fatima is one of the most beautiful people I have met in my life. She knew about us and she never hesitated to help with all she could. With their help and your donations, we are still alive 🙏. Because of these heroes we were able to buy food and medicine for my brother 😢. We will never forget this Dr Fatima and Dr love ❤️
When we were able to get back to our home where we live, after the tanks withdrew, we found all homes were destroyed completely. But our home was partly destroyed so we can stay in it better than a ent. We were happy to have a part of our home to live in but then we begin another kind of struggling again 😢. No water and no work to be able to buy food. No clothes, blankets and very cold 🥶.
We try to live in our home but the destiny has another decision. We can't supply ourselves in a destroyed area so we evacuated into some relatives home. We all live in one room without Privacy and you can imagine yourself live like this. OMG , ITS TOO TERRIBLE.
I had to contact my dear friends again and decided to ask for a new campaign again, hoping to get some money to live a simple life and be able to support my family with our basic needs. We also wish to repair our home to be able to live there again 🙌. I trust in you kind and beautiful people to stand with us again. We deserve to be a human and live like you.
Please please don't hesitate to gift us even if it’s only a little. Your little help is something huge for us. Love you all and thank your for understanding our situation.❤️”

Cover photo: AP News