We have opened

The Blessed Pantry

a free food assistance program 

Open on Sundays from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM, located at 739 Terryville Ave, Bristol, CT

 

Holy Qur-aan:

"... and they feed, out of their love for Allah, the indigent, the orphans, and the prisoners." (Surah Ad-Dahar, verse #8)

Hadeeth Shareef:
“Creation is Allah’s family.”

 

"In the Sight of Allah, the best among His creation is the one who is good to Allah's family."

 

Service is the best worship.

 

Allah is the Creator and the Caretaker of all creation. The slave who serves His creation purely because they are his Rabb's creation and has no other selfishness or interest, is liked by Allah.

 

Serving the physical needs of humanity for the Pleasure of Allah is great worship. The greater service of Allah's slave is to invite him towards the Deen and towards the Path of Allah. This matter becomes clear when one ponders over it, that the brightest aspect of service of the creation is to remove the slave from darkness of weak belief, ignorance, and rebellion towards the light of guidance. This, in the terminology of the Deen, is called Tableegh. To show the Right Path to the one who has lost his way is humanity's greatest service. To help a non-Muslim to become a new Muslim is as if removing someone from the Hellfire and bringing him to Paradise. This is the best Tableegh.

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Statements of Shaikh-ul-'Alam, Hadrat Abu Anees Muhammad Barkat 'Ali

 قَدَّسَ اللّهُ سِرَّه الْعَزِيز 

(May Allah sanctify his honorable secret)

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• We like for ourselves the Deen.

• We like to selflessly serve the creation of Allah, and we like goodwill for all creation.

• We like simplicity, we like Dzikr of Allah and pondering.

• We like to live for Allah, and we like to die for Allah.

• This is what we like for you also.

 

Note: These are extracts and paraphrasing of "Words of Wisdom" (Maqaalaat Hikmat) by ​

Shaikh-ul-'Alam, Hadrat Abu Anees Muhammad Barkat 'Ali

(May Allah sanctify his honorable secret)

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