I hope and pray that we Muslims
should do our best to respect the elderly and especially our parent. It is a
bad habit to send our elderly to senior citizen homes. It is also bad to get
rid of our parents and send them to nursing homes. The presence of our parents
in our own houses is blessing from Allah swt. Their presence will bring peace, happiness, concord,
tranquility, mercy and reward from Allah. We should try our best to request our
parents to stay with us at our own houses so as to receive the blessings of
Allah. we should give a good example to the non Muslims to do same with their
parents. If we take the initiative and practice this good habit in the Timor
Leste society, we will establish a better society where there is no generation
gap. there won’t be animosity between the young generation to wards the
elderly. Instead, there will be kindness, respect, sympathy, concern, and love
to ward one another. We feel sorry for the elderly who are living in nursing
homes, that the are not wanted in the society, that the are deserted, and that
arson is committed on them to get rid of them. Poor elderly in this society !
many of them are being attacked while walking on the streets, robbed and
killed. While sleep in the nursing homes. Still others are strangled for no
reason.
I want you to think seriously
about yourselves when you will be old. Think seriously about what is going to
happen to you in this part of the world when you will become a senior citizen.
I am sure none of us want to be deserted, unwanted or to be thrown a way in
those nursing homes. None of us want to think that he is a liability when he is still an asset to the society.
I wish to request that you visit some of nursing homes and see for yourselves the life habitat
of the elderly. Try to see the type of treatment they receive, the type of food
they eat, the type of atmosphere they
live in, and the type of feeling they have. Many of us will run a way from
house places. Haw ever, if anyone wishes to live in the open society, he will
not feel safe either. We hope and pry, dear Muslims, that we will do something
good as of today to improve the situation.
“treat
people the way you wish them to treat
you”
“the
way treat people,you will be treated”
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