I could feel their plight, fear, hunger, sadness, vulnerability, helplessness and trauma. Although they are not of the same race and religion as I am, I could cry just to see them, being casualties and corpses on tv and would try
to help them in anyway I could. Maybe the best way for now is to set up a fund and donate some money to them. Islam teaches us, Muslims, to help other people in need, regardless who they are.
Islam is a religion of tolerance and love. It would always enjoin its followers to do good deeds to other, especially those in need.
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Little escaped the devastation wrought by the grade 7.0-magnitude quake that struck the area in the south of Haiti on Tuesday afternoon.
Hospitals and schools collapsed and were reportedly full of dead while 200 foreigners were missing from the city's expensive Hotel Montana.
Up to 200 United Nations staff in the city were unaccounted for last night including the civilian head of mission, Hedi Annabi of Tunisia, after its headquarters was flattened.
Monsignor Serge Miot, the city's Catholic archbishop, was a confirmed casualty, his body pulled from the rubble of his offices while his vicar general, Charles Benoit, was missing.
The presidential palace, Haiti's grandest building, was substantially destroyed and its incumbent, Rene Preval, described the scene in his capital as "unimaginable".He said he had been stepping over the bodies of the dead and hearing the cries of the trapped underneath his country's collapsed parliament building.
His prime minister, Jean-Max Bellerive, said the government believed the death toll in the city of two million people was "well over 100,000" while Youri Latortue, a senior senator, said it could be 500,000.
Both admitted they had no way of knowing but aid workers on the scene reported widespread destruction and suffering as severely injured people lay in the streets, unable to get medical assistance.
Haiti, the poorest country by far in the western hemisphere, was already struggling to recover from a series of severe hurricanes and flooding in 2008.
The country sits on a major fault line and scientists have warned for years that it was likely to be hit by a major earthquake.
    A hotel in Haiti Lastly, let us together help the Haitians in their undesirable and sad plight. Today is their day, tomorrow might simply be ours, only Allah knows. We pray that EQ will never occur to us here, God willing. |
