Epigraph:
And what is the matter with you that you struggle not in the cause of Allah and of the weak — men, women and children — who say, ‘Our Lord, take us out of this town, whose people are oppressors, and make for us some friend from Thyself, and make for us from Thyself some helper?’ (Al Quran 4:76)
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Lead post collected by Dr. Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, the Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan
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