It gives me great pleasure in greeting
the Muslim brothers and sisters on my behalf and
on behalf of All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama when all
celebrate Eid Al-Fitr; completing the month long
practice in the camp of Ramadhan in the Islamic
year of Hijri 1426.
Eid Al-Fitr, the festival of charity,
has downed whilst more and more wounded hearts across
the world weep and shed silent tears over the calamities
caused by constant earthquakes and pandemics than
when the Muslim Ummah celebrated its Eid Al-Adh-ha,
the festival of sacrifice in the early part of this
year.
The world, nowadays, encounters
unprecedented trial and tribulations in the forms
of tidal wave, earthquakes, torrential rains, hurricanes
and deadly epidemics, and it looms large that as
if there going to be no one to extend helping hand
to an affected one as day by day, country after
country, fall prey to such sorrowful happenings.
It is the time for the humankind
especially for the Muslim Ummah to be more and more
patient, as Allah Almighty says in the Holy Qur’an
that:
“And we shall surely test
you with aught of fear and hunger and loss in riches,
lives and fruits, and bear thou glad tidings to
the patient.” (2:155)
And he further says how the people
who happen to encounter such misfortunes, act:
“Who, when an affliction
afflicts them, say: “surely we belong to Allah,
and surely to Him we shall return.” (2:156)
Let us be patient and seek refuge
from Almighty Allah and help, as far as we could,
to the suffering people during this Eid.
“Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar,
Allahu Akbar”
Ash-Shaikh H. Abdul Nazar
General Secretary, All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama
27.10.2005
