Seventy-year-old Muhammad Salim Allah Al-Rahili is known as one of the oldest volunteers who help in providing iftar meals to Muslims in the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah. For more than sixty years, Al-Rahili has been a regular helper in the mosque particularly in the Rawdah and Al-Mukabariya area.
Arab News met Al-Rahili as he was overseeing the preparations for the iftar as his usual habit every year. More than one thousand visitors to the Prophet’s Mosque eat iftar together every day through more than six tables scattered in different areas around the mosque including the squares adjacent to the mosque.
Describing the meals in Ramadan, he explained that each meal includes yogurt, milk, bread, coffee, dates and Duqa, which is a mixture of home-made spices.
He refused to reveal the cost of each meals saying that charity work are done for the sake of God and doing good and he doesn’t seek fame or stardom.
In a related project, Makkah Gov. Prince Mishaal bin Abdullah inaugurated a project to provide break-fasting meals to 1.5 million people in the Makkah province.
The Jeddah Charity Warehouse will implement the project that will be named after Prince Mishaal as a part of its Ramadan programs. The prince made a considerable donation to the project and opened the project’s electronic website. The website (jedcs.net) will receive volunteers wishing to join this project.
Sheikh Abdullah Al-Othaim, chairman of the board of the warehouse, told Arab News that Iftar meals will be distributed as a part of a geographical
map that covers the Makkah region.
Al-Othaim welcomed more than three thousand volunteers to the programs. Each volunteer will spend two hours of their time between 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. to distribute meals to people in public squares, at traffic light, and streets.
Al-Othaim expressed gratitude to the governmental bodies, the private sectors and philanthropists for their participation in the program inviting other to support the warehouse projects that targets poor and needy
people.
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