Assalam alaikum
Usually, I’m not really excited to rush into relief work of crisis or natural disasters, because I believe in long term sustainable efforts.
But, just want to share two things with you about the earthquake in China.
1- When I visited China, I found many ancient masjids (over a thousand year old) and some graves attributed to Sahaba (RA). So, when this earthquake happened, I asked myself, if the Sahabah didn’t discriminate between Muslims and non-Muslims and they traveled all that distance to save the humanity, why are we holding back …

There are no limits to our technological advances.  Humans have explored space, invented all types of gadgets and gizmos, and created devices that help us monitor the weather, storms and other disasters. Yet, with all our advances we are like dust in the wind when it comes to Allah’s power.  As Allah says in the Quran:
 
- Did the people of the towns feel secure against the coming of Our wrath by night while they were asleep? (007.097)
- Or else did they feel secure against its coming in broad daylight while …