"LET US BE FIGHTERS IN OUR OWN SMALL WAY"

Alhamdulillah, semalam 31 hb Januari 2009 telah berlangsung Majlis Malam Suara Kemanusiaan Palestine, sebagai penutup Program Karnival Keamanan Bersamamu Palestine 2009.

Program Karnival tersebut telah mendapat sambutan yang menggalakkan dengan 40 lebih buah kenderaan yang turut berkonvoi. Di sebelah malamnya pula di Dataran Petaling Jaya berhadapan dengan Kompleks Amcorp Mall telah berlansung Malam Suara Kemanusiaan Palestine.

Di bawah saya sertakan luahan hati seorang rakyat Palestine -Australian yang ditulis dan dibacakan oleh Sister Azra dari Complete dalam majlis di sebelah malamnya dan type semula oleh ummuasiah.

Semoga kita diantara golongan yang ingin berada di bumi Palestine dapat mengutip semangat dari kata-kata Sister Lana Mohd.....

"....LET US BE FIGHTERS IN OUR OWN SMALL WAY AND CREATE FIGHTERS AMONG OUR CHILDREN....."

As a young Palestinian-Australian, the Palestinian issue used to be nothing more than a very loud discussion. The issue was a hot and passionate one between my father and his friends every time they met. It made them so angry; they seemed to talk about nothing else. All I recall were words like P.L.O, Yasser Arafat, Yahudieen and Zionists being thrown around. All I knew was Zionists equal evil.

Imagine I knew nothing about history of Palestine. Almost nothing about the atrocities upon the Palestinians. I don’t want my children to be like I was. Totally ignorant of the pain and suffering of our brothers and sisters in Palestine. Do your children know and understand the truth. What are you teaching them about our role in all this? Are we indifferent and so creating indifference in our children?

Now, understanding and knowing the true picture I put my heart in Gaza, I put my heart in Palestine. I visualize my father, at the age of 6, in 1948, in a state of terror, leaving everything behind, being forced to leave his homeland. Let us be fighters in our own small way and cerate fighters among our children. For victory let us all turn to Allah. That’s where hope lies.

As a fellow Palestinian in Australia, now it is definitely personal. I took at their faces and see my face in theirs. I feel a physical and emotional pain. It’s the pain of those whom Allah has made my brothers and sisters in Islam.

FREE, FREE PALESTINE

NASRUN MINALLAH WAFATHUU KARIB

HELP FROM ALLAH, VICTORY IS AT HAND