Bangladesh is a developing country and also the most densely populated country in the world. A huge number of people in our country lives below the poverty line and as a result suffer from extreme hunger. A number of other people who can somehow manage to eat once in a day. Lot of people migrates to cities especially in Dhaka city in search of job but fails. As a result they get involved in different criminal activities along with drugs. Even most of the street children and slum children are dangerously drug addicted. If they are asked why they take drug, most of their reply is it helps them forget hunger!

As per a report by IslamicMarkets practically half of the part nations in the Organization of Islamic Conference are set among the 56 most destitution-stricken nations of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. In Bangladesh 24.3% people live below poverty line and among them the extreme poverty rate is 17.6% which shows us how miserable life this people are leading. In Dhaka city, children are seen begging in the street to fulfill their hunger. Homeless, old, women, even the disable people are seen begging in the streets, terminals etc. During the Ramadan the situation is worst for them. Many of them can’t afford food to break their fast. Many families have nothing to eat during Iftar.



These statistics put the duty on us, we individuals who are wealthy and can manage the cost of a living, to make a move. We are ethically and religiously responsible and are questionable before humankind and will be accountable in hereafter on the day of judgment about this.



Prophet Muhammad (Peace and blessings be upon him) said:

"Allah will say on the Day of Resurrectio “O son of Adam, I asked you for food and you fed Me not

He will say: O Lord, and how should I feed You when You are the Lord of the worlds?

Allah will say: Did you not know that My servant So-and-so asked you for food and you fed him not?

Did you not know that had you fed him you would surely have found that (the reward for doing so) with Me?”

[Sahih Muslim] On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him.



Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 2 Surah Baqarah verse 261:

The charity of those who expend their wealth in the Way of Allah may be likened to a grain of corn, which produces seven ears and each ear yields a hundred grains. Likewise, Allah develops manifold the charity of anyone He pleases, for He is All-Embracing, All-Wise.



Ramadan is the ninth month of Islamic calendar and is the holy month. It is the month of fasting for all the Muslim. It is the month during which the Holy Quran was revealed as direction for all humankind for the absolute first time. Ramadan is about sacrifice, tolerance and control.