Aspire to Be Giver Members of Society

ASPIRE TO BE GIVER MEMBERS OF SOCIETY The upper hand is better than the lower hand.” (Sahih al-Bukhari 1429) T oday you all have assembled to donate blood at the newly inaugurated blood bank. Donating blood is a noble deed as it has the unique ability to sustain life. Your blood is the most valuable gift you can present to a person in need. Here, I am obviously not referring to the blood that is spilled on the streets in violent confrontations. If someone desecrates our place of worship, raises provocative slogans or behaves in an unpleasant manner, we become furious and rise in a violent uproar, which leads to riots leaving death and destruction in their wake. What has been the outcome of such bloody agitation? It hasn’t prompted even a single person to submit to God Almighty. But the gesture shown by the Prophet of pouring a single bucket of water to clean the impurity left by a Bedouin worked to calm the tempers of an angry people and