Kamal El-Mekki – Understanding Hunger

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			hadI had you Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, or Sharon UMO remark data to her or coulomb that
in Bidda Aquila VEDA atom Bala Wakulla out and for now, Brothers and Sisters in Islam, today are
hotbar is titled, understanding hunger. And we want to understand how painful it is when people are
at the point of starvation.
		

			And some of you have seen videos of our brothers and sisters in Philistine and how the hunger has
reached a point that we cannot imagine. What is interesting is when you look up hunger, you find
videos of doctors and nutritionists talking about the benefits of hunger. And that's understandable
because we live in a world where everyone over eats. And they're talking about temporary hunger. And
what we're talking about is not temporary, we're talking about starvation we're talking about when
people are afflicted with famine, and people don't understand how extreme and how the pain of hunger
can be so extreme. And it would cause you to do things that are unthinkable. And as we look at some
		

			of these extreme examples, we will be telling ourselves, there is no way I would do that. But when
you're in the situation, the impossible becomes an option and it becomes possible. And that's why
Allah azza wa jal in the Quran, specifically, when he mentioned in surah Quraysh, he mentioned that
he saved them from hunger, and he saved them and he gave them security and let the uttama home
manure in what manner home and health. And if it wasn't such a valuable thing, it wouldn't be
mentioned as one of these two great, great blessings that Allah subhanaw taala has bestowed upon the
Quraysh. And we know that when Benny Hashem were sent out, and people boycotted them, and they were
		

			sent out into the ravines known as shall be authoritative for three years, and they had nothing to
eat, but leaves. One of the companions said that he was out answering the call of nature and he
says, my foot touched something. And when I reached in the dark, it was the height of a camel that
was slaughtered, maybe months ago, maybe years ago, rockhard. He said, I took it home, and I washed
it, and I boiled it, and I ate it.
		

			There is a scholar who lived in Egypt, by the name of taka, Taka, you, Dean and McAleese. And he
lived in Egypt and he studied with evanhoe. Dune and some of the some of the great scholars were his
students. He wrote a book, a short book about 86 pages by the name of Eros that Aloma because Phil
Houma. He experienced famine in Egypt, specifically in Cairo, in the year 806, after the hedgerow,
so this is something about 600 years ago or so. And he was in his 40s and he lost his daughter to
that famine. So he was a scholar and a writer and an eyewitness, and he wrote this book, and the
book talks about how to what are the causes and how to treat feminine and prevent famine and
		

			starvation. He talks about it economically from the sight of the rulers what they should be doing
what they're in charge of. And so he wrote this book in the year 808 After the Hijrah analyzing
famines and starvation, starting with the time of no holiday Salaam and then go on to the Prophet
use of and during during the time of her own, and the Omega dynasty in the Fatima dynasty in the
Ayyubid dynasty. So he analyzed about 20 different cases of starvation that had afflicted Egypt. So
he began by mentioning that what caused that famine was the carelessness of the rulers, their
concerns were the
		

			their positions of power. And he mentioned that there were not enough people who are farming and the
Nile not flooding much that year. So he mentioned that a piece of bread was for 15 gold dinars for
one piece of bread. This is something that would have been a silver hammer so, but it was 15 gold
dinars for one piece of bread, and 80 gold dinars for just a measure of flour. He said, then people
began to eat cats and dogs, and then the dogs became scarce so that they would sell a dog for five
dinars and people would take it and slaughter it and eat it. And then he says, people began to eat
one another. And you would think a Muslim city this would never happen. I wouldn't do it. But he
		

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So he says the situation got to the point where people started to eat one another. And people would
go and sit in the rooftops and they had ropes that had calibers which just means hooks, large hooks,
for either magrabi him or hudon and kohara. They he went to Shalu, who he worked with Shara hula
hula Curlew. So they said specifically, they would wait for old men and four children. And they
would swing this rope with the hook and they would attach they would hook onto the human being. And
		

			they would pull him up to the rooftop. And he said in no time they would cut him up and they would
eat him up. Yeah. And it became dangerous to be a child. At that point, people would eat each other
up. He says almontaser, who is the Khalifa. He sold everything in his palace, everything of
decoration, decorative cushions, and chairs, and even weapons and he would be sitting on the floor.
And the woman of the palace will go out into the streets yelling algebra, algebra, hunger, and they
would want they wanted to travel to move to Iraq, but they would go to the masala and they would die
there of hunger. Some of them would die at the masala die on the roads. He tells of a woman who had
		

			a necklace that was worth 1000 gold dinars and she tried to exchange it for bread. And he said all
the merchants refused Gani. The point is that even gold and jewelry things of great value weren't
even worth one piece of bread. So the merchants who had some flour had some bread they would refuse
to sell to her. No one's interested in 1000 dinos. everyone's interested in a tiny morsel of bread.
She says until someone out of having mercy for her exchange, took the 1000 dinars and he gave her
some flour.
		

			He tells of a Wazir who got on his mule to go visit the Khalifa. He says when he parked his mule,
they ate the mule people came and took the mule and they ate it. So then they found the culprits.
culprits and they hang them and they left them hanging he said I'll catch up. And then the next day
they came and didn't find the bodies because people came and took the bodies and they cut them up
and they ate them.
		

			Similarly in the year 1327 After the Hijrah, which is 1909 so this is not very long ago, and this is
in Hejaz, the areas of Mecca and Medina and Saudi Arabia. So so this is not a long time ago and some
of the elderly who are alive today their parents experienced this and they lived through this. So
this is a Nigerian it was known as a jewel the year of hunger or starvation. And people ate
anything. They ate carcasses of dead animals, whether they were dry or fresh or rotting. And they
ate the skins of animals. And they would fight over these carcasses and they will try to find
locusts and insects to eat and they would boil leaves from which whatever tree that had some leaves,
		

			they would boil these leaves and they would eat them. And they mentioned stories like they will find
children dead in front of doorways in front of homes. They found a woman who was dead and her two
children from starvation and her two children who died on her chest while they were debating which
child to eat. They said a dog passed by so they ran after it slaughtered it and they ate it.
		

			One man tells his wife and this is this is how extreme hunger can be. And you will say I would never
put myself in that. I would never even have that thought. But this is how painful hunger can be. One
man tells his wife and they had a small child
		

			He said, I will take the child, and I will kill him, and we will eat him. So first the woman told
him, No, it taught a love for Allah. And then she agreed, but she told him to not do it where she
could see it. So he says, I took the child out into the desert, and he far out basically. And before
I could slaughter him, I found two gazelles or two antelope, who were fighting with each other, and
their horns got locked together, and they couldn't break free. So he says, I told the woman that and
Faraci I need the ease and the way out has come from Allah azza wa jal. And then she came running
and took her child and I slaughtered the two animals and we ate them.
		

			But the point is that Jonnie hunger can be so extreme, that things that would be unthinkable. And
you would think if I'm in that situation, I would never suggest to kill my child, I would suggest to
die so my family could eat meat. But it's not the case when you feel extreme hunger. And of course,
we have in the life of our Prophet salallahu Alaihe Salam, an example in everything. Yeah. And in
whatever you might experience in this life, the prophets of Allah Salam experienced it. Yeah. And if
someone who lost a wife to profit and lost a wife, you lost a child, or a grandchild, or daughter or
son in law, you lost homes, wealth, you lost your luggage, the problem lost his luggage you had you
		

			have a bad neighbor, the problem had three bad neighbors. So whatever example whatever you go
through in your life, the process of them went through a similar example. And we all know famously
from ordinances obey the law on Houma, that there will be no fire lit in the house of the Prophet
sallallahu Sallam for two months. So he's asking his aunt, instead of the Allahu Ana, and she said
they would not be a fire lit in the house there and they would not cook for two months. So he asked
her how would you survive? And she said, I guess we're done. Dates and water. And we all know this
narration but imagine now going with dates and water just on dates and water for two months what
		

			would happen? And in Sahih Muslim the famous narration that the Prophet sallallahu Sallam Paola
Narrated by Abu Huraira Harada Rasulullah sallallahu wasallam Delta Yeoman, I will lay Latin for
either who will be available Korean War Amara, probably Allah on Houma porcelain went out one day or
one night and narrator says, and then he found a book or an aroma for Kodama of Raja Kuma Minwoo
Kuma had his what got you out of your homes at this time? Cada Algeria rasool Allah they said hunger
or prophet of Allah Khan. We're gonna we're living in fcbd
		

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			Kuma, Kuma, so it doesn't. And he swears by Allah that I was also sent out of my house or what
brought me out of my house was the same thing that brought you out of your house. So he says Get up.
So for karma, who they got up with him, and they went to a house for one of the men of the unsought
and his wife saw them and she welcomed them. So he asked her enough Milan, whereas so and so she
said, he went out to get us some water, but he'll be back soon. So while they were there, the man
came back, and he welcomed the Prophet sallahu wa salam, and he brought them some dates to eat to
start eating with and he took a knife to go slaughter an animal, and the porcelain told him not an
		

			animal that bears milk so that it would remain for you, you keep drinking from its milk. So he
slaughtered an animal and he came and he cooked it for them and they all ate until they got there
filled. Then the Prophet sallallahu Sallam tells Abu Bakr and Omar will let the NFC be led by the
one in whose hand is my soul Yanni he's swearing by Allah that is a Luna and her the name yo multi
Amma, you're going to be asked about the this blessing on the day of judgment that you're you are
sent out of your homes because of hunger, then you're going to go back to your homes and you have
received from some of these blessings.
		

			So you're going to be asked about it on the day of judgment. And this is like how Allah Allah says
in the Quran from mellitus Aluna yo, Ma, Ethan, and in and on that day, you're going to be asked on
the Day of Judgment, you're going to be asked about all the blessings that you received. But not
only that, not only as we know that our religion encourage us to feed and to feed others and
expressed the dangers and the pain associated with extreme hunger. But even with animals as the
Prophet sallallahu sallam said, that was the but imra fee Hara a woman was tortured meaning in the
Hellfire because of a cat. So Ginetta had done that she imprisoned the couch. She trapped it in an
		

			area in a cage until it died.
		

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			So Allah took her to the Hellfire because of torturing this animal.
		

			The point is that our religion, we has put this value on not just human life, but even the life of
animals. So, what about humans and with the with the famine, other problems with hunger, other
problems occur, food is scarce. So, food becomes impossible to, to afford as we saw in the examples
of the price of bread. So when it becomes impossible to afford then theft occurs then murder occurs
and so on and so forth.
		

			So with that we ask Allah azza wa jal to make use of those who hear the truth is clear truth and
follow the best of it. A hula colada was tougher Allah Allah the money welcome menjamin Pharaoh fire
hose Al Mustafa serene ask Allah azza wa jal first forgiveness Indeed, those who ask for his
forgiveness shall prosper.
		

			hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa salatu salam ala Rasulillah Hill, I mean, while he was gonna be a
domain, I'm about. So some may ask them, What is the benefit of understanding extreme hunger and the
pain associated with extreme hunger and starvation? And how do we benefit from this topic, the first
thing, and the first point was for us to appreciate what we have, just like in the Hadith, after
they ate the porcelain told them that you're going to be asked about these blessings on the day of
judgment. And we're in a world where people are dying from overeating, and getting all kinds of
illnesses because they consume too much food. And in that same world, people are dying because they
		

			have nothing to eat. And they're eating their body parts. Yeah, neither videos of people who ate
their hand, because they're so hungry and starving. So when you appreciate what you have, then you
naturally become more thankful. And this is a reminder to myself and to everyone that become more
thankful don't take it for granted, every meal, every bite, that we're so used to complaining about
how one ingredient was missing. And so many things are often we get so angry about it, we tell seven
people, and they go tell seven people, but become more appreciative. The third become less wasteful.
And those who don't appreciate they throw away the blessings of Allah azza wa jal, and it's a good
		

			time to bring this up. Because some of you don't understand how wasteful we are in Ramadan. And I'm
not talking about in our homes, just from what we visibly see here in the masjid, the insane amount
of wasted bottles of water. Like every night, we'll throw 2030 bottles of water, each one someone
just took a simple sip out of them and just left them there so much, and there's nothing to do with
it. Yeah, they don't told me benefit from it like to feed the plants. The plants need water. It's
raining all the time. And what have sprinklers, what do we do with it put in the fish tank, but how
big is this fish tank. And if there's nothing to do with it, we just dump it in the sink, we throw
		

			it away. And even sometimes when a surprising number of people come for Iftar. So we announced
please just take for your whoever's present, because we may not have enough food for everyone, you
will see a man sitting with his wife, and they have four boxes of food are taking later for the
whole time this guy's been fasting, he doesn't have any these things are embarrassing alive to
mention. But it just happens. Every Ramadan. Every year, we see amount of food wasted and people
just throwing or they'll have children's meals, but people will have four little kids and they'll
give each one of them an adult meal. And then the child will just strip one of the pieces of chicken
		

			off and then the whole thing we throw it in the trash. And this is not befitting of people who have
their brothers and sisters starving in other parts of the world, we need to become more aware of
this. And the final point. And the reason behind this topic is that when we're aware of these
extreme conditions, and we're aware of what has happened to believing men and women in history,
where they start hunting each other like like their food,
		

			we will have the notion to want to feed more. And in sha Allah when the borders and all the
organizations are allowed to enter freely and to bring much more into Philistine. Let's give them
our top priority because of our understanding because we want to eliminate hunger from the men,
women and children and the prophets of Allah Salam encouraged this 1400 years ago, he said a
Yohannes of Shu A salaam a few Salah Yanni spread greetings amongst one another without mo
		

			Huh, and feed one another will suddenly be Laylee when NASA neon and pray at night while the
majority of people are asleep, what's the result that the whole janitor be Salam you enter a Jana
with ease with no problem with no issues with that we ask Allah azza wa jal to make us of those who
recognize the truth as clear truth and follow the best of it and to make use of those who recognize
falsehood as clear falsehood and abstain from it for Lahoma Anahata convers alternativa were
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