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Give back to the community , the more you give , the more blessing you will receive

01/05/2013 9:00 PM Syracuse, N.Y. -- A group of Muslim-Americans has opened a free health clinic for uninsured adults on Syracuse’s South Side. The Rahma Health Clinic, which recently opened its doors at 3100 S. Salina St., is open 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays and 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Wednesdays. Rahma is an Islamic word that means mercy. The Muslim religion places a strong emphasis on giving back to the community’s less fortunate, said Dr. Mustafa Awayda, the clinic’s volunteer medical director. That belief was the catalyst behind starting the clinic. “We’re so fortunate because we have wonderful lives in the area, great jobs and we wanted to give back,” said Awayda, who works at the Syracuse VA Medical Center. He and other Muslim Americans formed a nonprofit, the Muslim American Care and Compassion Alliance, which purchased a vacant former doctor’s office at 3100 S. Salina St. in 2009. It took much longer than expected to open because the clinic applied for and received c...

The more you give , the more blessings you will receive . Give back to the community as a token of appreciation

Original sin or original forgiveness ?

Greetings of peace, This post is an answer to a new friend whom I recently met and respect , a devout Christian  passionate about sharing his religion with others , who challenged me to provide some proofs regarding why Muslims don't accept the doctrine of  original sin; a doctrine  including the concept of trinity  that  were   added by the Church under the influence of the Roman rulers  at the Council of Nicaea some 325 years after Jesus left the earth meaning saved by Allah from the plot of his enemies . Notice I say left the earth and not died, but that is a topic for another day. I will briefly touch on it . Muslims believe that Jesus may peace be upon him is the Messiah or Christ  born miraculously from a virgin Mary ( Please read a whole chapter of the Quran named after Mary in Arabic Meriam  Chapter 19 of the holly Quran , it gives an islamic perspective of Jesus  in minute  detail ) , Muslims also believe that Jesu...