Answers to Everyday Issues Part 84
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THE WEEKLY
www.alhakam.org AL HAKAM | Friday 29 August 2025 | Issue CCCLXXXIX Ahmadiyya Archive & Research Centre (ARC), 22 Deer Park Road, London, SW19 3TL, UK info@alhakam.org | ISSN 2754-7396
Weaponising food: A famine by design in Gaza A violation of human dignity Seven-year-old Mai Abu Arar weighs far less than a healthy toddler. Once lively and joyous, she now takes only liquid food through a syringe in a Gaza hospital. She is among more than 500,000 Palestinians
whom the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification has declared to be experiencing famine. Yet hundreds of aid trucks laden with food sit idle at Gaza’s borders, just miles from the starving.
Hadith-e-Rasul – Sayings of the Holy Prophet Muhammadsa
Allah’s listening to melodious recitation of the Holy Quran َ َ َّ َ َ ّٰ ّ ﻋ ِﻦ،ﻋ ْﻦ أ�ِ� ُﻫ َﺮﻳْ َﺮة اﻟﻨ ِ� ِّ� ﺻﻠﻰ ا��� �ﻠﻴﻪ َّ َ َ َ ْ َ ُ َّ َ َ َ َ َ ّ �ِّ �ِ ِﻠﻨ وﺳﻠﻢ ﻗﺎل� ﻣﺎ أذِن ا��� ﻟ ِﺸﻰ ٍء ﻣﺎ أذِن ﻟ ُ ْ َّ َ َ َ ْ َ آن ِ أن ﻳﺘﻐﻨﻰ ﺑِﺎﻟﻘ ْﺮ Hazrat Abu Hurairahra narrated: “The Prophetsa said, ‘Allah has not listened attentively to anything as He listens to the Prophet[sa] reciting the Quran with a beautiful, melodious voice.” (Sahih al-Bukhari, Kitab fada’ili l-qur’an, Bab mun lum yataghanna bil-qur’an, Hadith 5024)
This proximity of salvation makes Gaza’s crisis uniquely cruel. The food exists. The trucks are loaded. The distribution networks could resume within hours. International donors have provided supplies. Aid workers stand ready. Every element needed to end the suffering waits at the borders. The IPC, which has declared only five famines since 2004, states unequivocally that this one “can be halted and reversed” immediately. Gaza’s starvation differs fundamentally from historical famines in Sudan, Ethiopia, or Yemen, where vast distances, absent infrastructure, or active combat zones created genuine obstacles. There is no weather calamity or failure of crops. Here, the distance between food and the hungry can be measured in miles, sometimes in metres, an unfortunate situation that can only be described as “famine by design”; not the absence of solutions but their deliberate withholding. The mechanism is precise. A functioning UN system of 400 community distribution points was replaced with just four sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,
“However, the miracle with which God Almighty has blessed the Holy Quran is its sublime moral teaching and values of social interaction, and its eloquence and articulacy, which are all things that no man can match in the least. So too is the case with its miracle that relates to news of the unseen and prophecy. In this era, no master magician claims to be able to do such things at all. In this manner, Allah the Almighty has granted my signs a clear distinction, so that no one is left with any room for excuse or objection. Thus, God Almighty has manifested His signs so openly and distinctly that there is no place for any
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Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmadas, In His Own Words
The Miracle of the Holy Quran