Faith IQ – Volunteer Or Spend Time With Family On Eid

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Shaykh Waleed Basyouni answers the question “should one volunteer on Eid or spend their time on Eid with their family?”

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The customer is asking the agent whether it is better to spend time with family or volunteer when answering a question. The customer explains that it is difficult to choose between two good things and suggests organizing a party to help people with local organizations. The customer also suggests that the family should not give their children too much time to volunteer and that it is important to balance the time spent.

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			This question about, is it better to spend it with family or to volunteer? You know, every time I
get a question like this, should I do this? Or this kind of, you know, it's very hard to put me in
that position to make you choose between two good things. Should I spend it with family or
volunteer? Can you do both? And you saved me the answer. But I would say, you know, what, do a
little bit of both. Sometimes, because I remember mustard, and I know that if we don't have
volunteers in the day after eat coming early, organize the traffic, you know, setting up the carpet
and making the place ready. Nobody's going to do that. So we need volunteers to do that. I know as
		
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			basic as a person who participated in the past, and I know many of my friends, students and
		
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			community members who go on the delivery to distribute to toys or food to the poor people with local
organization, if there is nobody to volunteer for that, you know, the poor members of our community
will not, you know, receive these gifts on time. So I know the value and the importance of
volunteering. But also I know the importance of spending time with family, your wife, your kids,
your parents need to see you need to have spent time with you. So what I would say this needs a
little bit of organizing. So if you do it one year, maybe you take a break second year and you bring
someone else to do it, maybe you do some time like divide the time to spend some times with the
		
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			family with volunteering in the morning. But after that you spend more time with the kids would it
be fair, for example, you volunteer the the morning and after you finish with them, you've come
dead, tired sleeping, and you don't spend any time with the family and try to balance it. And I want
to say to the family, please don't give your husband, your son, your daughter, your your wife a hard
time. If the volunteering, basically support them. And one good thing maybe you can do you all can
volunteer as a family together and ask them to help you. But again, you have to balance that
yourself from one to another from one year to another balance the time that you spend. But equally
		
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			they have been helped by give everybody their due rights.