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The Islamic scholar Al-Nawawi once reported that the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) once said that “Whoever removes a worldly grief from a person in this world, God will remove from him a burden of the Day of Judgement. Whosoever alleviates the burden of a needy person, God will

Dear Friends, When we started Penny Appeal USA, we committed ourselves to furthering the cause of domestic services and sustainable development. And we’re still committed to that mission and vision. But every once in a while, an organization is tested by the bounds of its ethical responsibilities to those it

by Arsalan Iftikhar Most people do not need NASA to tell them that the “scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal†when considering the impact of climate change on our planet today. With tropical storms and hurricanes with harmless-sounding names like Harvey and Irma devastating parts of

by Arsalan Iftikhar In a [recent public letter](http://twitter.com/TheMuslimGuy/status/906174092159709185” target=”_blank) from 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the famous South African peace activist emotionally pleaded with 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi to condemn the ethnic cleansing of over 1 million Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar which

by Arsalan Iftikhar Everyone has heard the famous saying: “Give a man a fish…Feed him for a day….Teach a man to fish…Feed him for a lifetime… During this Hajj pilgrimage season, the vast majority of the world’s 1.7 billion Muslims will donate Qurbani meat to hungry families all over the

by Arsalan Iftikhar From literally every corner of the planet, we will soon witness millions of old Algerian men, Indonesian toddlers, young American women, Syrian newlyweds, Sudanese mothers and Pakistani fathers perform a two-week pilgrimage that culminates itself at the holiest shrine in the epicenter of the Muslim world known