Iraqis resort to selling children
If you’ve had second thoughts about my post on the Iraqi situation. Then read this news item on Al-Jazeera.
Abu Muhammad, a Baghdad resident, found it difficult to let go of his daughter’s hand but he had already convinced himself that selling her to a family outside Iraq would provide her with a better future.
“The war disgraced my family. I lost relatives including my wife among thousands of victims of sectarian violence and was forced to sell my daughter to give my other children something to eat,” he told Al Jazeera.
In 2006, Abu Muhammad and his family were forced to leave their home in Adhamiya, a district of Baghdad, after militia fighting claimed the streets in his once tranquil neighbourhood.
They began living in a makeshift refugee camp on the outskirts of Baghdad, but he soon lost his job and the children, unable to make the daily trek, quit school.
“There wasn’t enough money to spend on books, clothes and transport,” he said. His daughter, Fatima, the youngest of four children, began to show signs of malnourishment and a local medic said she had become anaemic.
Here’s something you can do about it. First, make dua for the muslimeen of Iraq. Second, donate if you can to the people of Iraq.
May Allah 
alleviate the suffering of our Muslim brethren. Ameen!
Assalam Aalykum
Subhanallah, this is so sad. May Allah
subhanna wa ta’ala help the Muslim Ummah. Ameen. This is the sad situation in many Muslim Countries like Afghanistan and Palestine. What if this happened to our children? And secondly, this reminded me of that article where Iraqi Women were selling themselves to survive.
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Abu Mus'ab replied on January 8, 2008:
this reminded me of that article where Iraqi Women were selling themselves to survive.
I read that article sometime ago. It made me angry and sad. I pray that Allah
brings ease and comfort to the oppressed.
Prophet Muhammad
said:
“Fear the invocation (du’aa’) of the oppressed person, for there is no barrier between his invocation and Allah
.”
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