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Sustained Solidarity: Why We can’t Let this Moment Fade
Racism is consistent. Our communities have to be consistent in fighting it. What We know If you are Black in America, fatigue is a luxury. Rest of mind, body, and soul can’t be weighed in gold. Leisure time is to be savored, vacations guarded. The long held tradition of subjugating Black people by lethal and legal force makes all of the above priceless. When Sandra Bland was taken, there was no time for fatigue. When Breonna Taylor was taken, it was still no time for fatigue. Though many media outlets have since move on from the Murder of George Floyd and the resulting uprisings, the compassion and support needed to…
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Water for Life
Innovation in sustainability makes water available to countless families Water is a human right. We believe that in a world where balance is present, no one should go without it. When it is absent, made scarce, and altogether restricted by man or nature it causes widespread devastation. For those of us who enjoy the privilege of uninterrupted water access, we can forget easily how the day-to-day difficulty of purifying, finding, and guarding water can be. Making water accessible to communities across the world has remained a priority to IRUSA because there are few substantial changes we can make in the lives of the families we serve without it. In Kenya,…
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IRUSA Launches Partnership with ShariaWiz
Innovative service makes Islamic inheritance a pain free experience. A duty upon us all The Prophet Muhammad, ﷺ, said, “It is not permissible for any Muslim who has something to will to stay for two nights without having his last will and testament written and kept ready with him.” August is National Make-a-Will Month and we are taking this opportunity to encourage everyone to take care of their religious obligation of preparing an Islamic will. A partnership that makes sense Islamic Relief USA has partnered with Shariawiz.com, a do-it-yourself, easy, and affordable platform that has an abundance of information about Islamic wills and a scholar-certified Islamic Inheritance Calculator. Shariawiz is the premier…
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Mighty Muharram
A new 1442 Hijri year sets in for us to prepare for better times New beginnings There are many important days and months in the Islamic calendar, but only one of those is the start of the Islamic year, and that’s just one thing that makes Muharram such a special point of the Hijri calendar. Muharram is blossoming before us, and at Islamic Relief USA, we’re looking forward to starting off a new Hijri year 1442, with gratitude and focus. The Hijri calendar was established by the second Umar Ibn Al-Khattab (ra), starting from the year that Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) set out from Makkah to Medina. Blessed meanings Muharram itself…
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Covid-19 has Brought Out the Best of You (Video)
Your aid is reaching every city, village, town, community, and country we served with one reminder, we are in this together. At IRUSA we are experienced in disaster relief. More than 25 years of being on the ground when crises strikes allows us a breadth of knowledge about how to best provide during emergencies. The support of our community of volunteers, donors, and staff allows us to be among those first responders far before a single news camera lens can capture the devastation. We don’t take that responsibility lightly. The human toll of natural disaster and conflict can never really be measured. Our resolve was tested once again this past…
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Lebanon Blasts Shake Thousands
IRUSA Aids Beirut after an earthquake level explosion takes hundreds of lives. An city in shards Lebanon has been devastated by conflict and poverty, and is on the brink of famine and economic collapse, all compounded by the Covid-19 pandemic, and is now facing another catastrophe. If that sounds like too much for one sentence, that’s because it is. Beirut is a city steeped in history, with an Ottoman past, Roman ruins and lingering remnants of the French occupation, it’s a city that can hark back to a time long gone. However, the recent past of this city, and indeed the country as a whole, does not bring the warm…
