World Islamic Call Society supports Muslims

September 23, 2008 pg 30

Story: Musah Yahaya Jafaru
THE World Islamic Call Society (WICS)-Ghana Bureau, an international non-governmental organisation (NGO), has donated food items worth thousands of Ghana cedis to needy, orphans and disabled Muslims in Accra.
The donation was to assist the beneficiaries, drawn from Nima, Maamobi, Abeka and Zongo, to observe the Ramadan fast with ease.
The items included bags of rice, cartons of tomato paste and cooking oil.
The Public Relations Officer of the WICS, Sheikh Mohammed Ghazali, said the donation was in response to Allah’s command to Muslims to reach out to the needy and orphans always, especially during the fast period.
Sheikh Ghazali urged Muslims to let the virtues of patience, tolerance and fellow feeling that they had imbibed during the Ramadan to reflect in their lives after the fast period.
That, he said, was the only way they would become true Muslims who would contribute to the socio-economic development of their respective communities and the nation at large.
On the forthcoming presidential and parliamentary elections, Sheikh Ghazali asked Muslims to avoid violence before, during and after the elections.
Sheikh Ghazali commended the Libyan Leader, Mu'ammar Al-Qathafi, for his continuous support to Muslims and his lead role to bring unity on the African continent.
An Islamic scholar and Imam, Sheikh Hussein Zakaria, who spoke on behalf of the beneficiaries, thanked the Libyan Leader Mu'ammar Al-Qathafi for funding the food donation through the WICS.
He said the food would go a long way in helping the beneficiaries to observe the fast without much difficulty.
In a related development, two Qur’anic memorisers from Libya, Sheikh Mohammed Maghrib and Sheikh Khalid Khalifat, have finished their religious tour of the country.

Pix: Alhaji Ahmed Ashur (2nd left), the Financial Administrator of the World Islamic Call Society (WICS)-Ghana Bureau, donating the food items to Sheikh Hussein Zakaria, an Islamic scholar (3rd left). Looking on are (from left to right) Sheikh Mohammed Ghazali, the Public Relations Officer of the WICS; Sheikh Khalid Khalifat and Sheikh Mohammed Maghrib, both Qur’anic memorisers from Libya.