'Zakat' related query answered in a mail by 'Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital', Bravo...

From: Syed Arbab Ahmed [mailto:star_arbab@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 1:24 AM
To: marketing@skm.org.pk (Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital)
Subject: Do you use 'Zakat' on Non-Muslims? (Mandatory in Islam)

Assalam o Alaikum!

You are doing a traffic job in the shape of 'Shaukat Memorial Khanum Hospital', Donations can be given to Non-Muslims but not Zakat, I want to give some amount of Zakat to your hospital, I have just concern that in Islam Zakat can only be given to Muslims.

If I give Zakat to your hospital, can you make sure to me that this amount of Zakat will be used on Muslims only, then I and people like me can give Zakat to your hospital.

Awaiting your response.

Regards,
Syed Arbab Ahmed

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From: Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 8:54 AM
To: Fundraising
Subject: FW: Do you use 'Zakat' on Non-Muslims? (Mandatory in Islam)

Dear Mr. Ahmed,

We at Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre (SKMCH&RC) are very particular about the disbursement of Zakat so let me take this opportunity to take you through our system step by step.

Patients are registered for financially supported treatment after a thorough evaluation of the nature and stage at which each patient has presented to the Hospital. This step ensures that all patients being accepted for financially supported treatment are cancer patients.

Once that is done the patient will be routed to the Financially Support Services for a financial evaluation to ascertain the extent of support they require. So the concerned staff shares the expected treatment cost and the patient shares the details of their assets, dependents, income sources etc. and mutually agree upon a percentage for financial support. It would be pertinent to mention here that nearly 65% of the patients receive complete i.e. 100% support because they cannot cover their basic needs let alone the expensive treatment for cancer (many people do not even have enough money to take away their dead). Another 10% of the patients receive partial support and that too in which they are paying nominal amounts (e.g. 5% of their treatment cost) because they would like to pay whatever they possibly can. Apart from this interview, the Hospital has field investigators to help in the verification of the information through alternate means to ensure that the patients who qualify for financially supported treatment are truly deserving.

Next, the patients are asked if they are eligible for Zakat or not. Those who do claim to be eligible for Zakat are further asked to obtain a signed and stamped referral letter from their local Zakat authorities who also authenticate the patients eligibility for Zakat based on the local information. For these patients, their treatment will be subsidized from the Zakat fund that is separately maintained at the Hospital. Let me once again reiterate that that the revenue from the Hospital’s diagnostic services (i.e. Rs. 1.8 BILLION) has always and continues to be utilized for our expansion projects/equipment and other Hospital expenses (including salaries). Zakat is exclusively utilized for providing direct patient care to the poor patients. Patients who do not qualify for Zakat (eg. non muslims, syeds etc.) however are deserving will be subsidized from the separate Donation Account that we have at the Hospital. The implementation of this entire system, to ensure with precision that every penny is utilized in line with the eligibility of each patient every time a service is provided during the course of treatment, is made possible through a very sophisticated custom built Hospital Information System.

Keeping in view the transparency of the whole system the Ministry of Religious Affairs, Zakat and Ushr of the Government of Pakistan also disburses Rs. 12 million from its Zakat Fund for the treatment of poor cancer patients each year and has permanently deputed a representative for monitoring the disbursement at the Hospital.

It would also be pertinent to mention here that of the total Hospital budget of Rs. 3.6 billion (for the year 2011), the amount that we required for providing direct patient care for the poor cancer patients was about Rs. 1.2 billion, while the Zakat collections are about Rs. 0.8 billion. These figures will reassure you that the Zakat itself is not enough to cover for the direct patient costs so there is no possibility of the Zakat being utilized for any other purpose. The entire amount collected in the form of Zakat is completely exhausted in providing direct patient within the same year.

Zakat disbursement at SKMCH&RC is a very serious matter for us and we make every effort to ensure that that it is dispersed appropriately for needy cancer patients in line with the Islamic injunctions and the aspirations of our worthy donors. Hope this should clarify the matter, however if you still have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me once again.

Best Regards,

Ehsan Rana
Marketing & Resource Development
Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre
7-A, Block R3, Johar Town, Lahore, Pakistan.
Tele: +92 42 35905000 Ext. 7016
Cell: +92 321 8407994 Fax: +92 42 35945208
Website: www.shaukatkhanum.org.pk

Conclusion:

See if any person or organization is clear from corruption then they can illustrate their work through their crystal clear process, rather than empty rant, Great!!!

Visit the following link for Zakat & Donations account numbers:
http://www.shaukatkhanum.org.pk/how-to-help/210.html

Pakistan is not learning from mistakes results losing again to India in a world cup match

As I see the loss to India in 2016 T20 World cup 

Selection
-Very experience Haroon Rashid & rest of his selection team knew that T20 World cup is in India but didn't select a single genuine spinner?
-Why limited player Sharjeel Khan was selected on the basis of just 2 innings in PSL, from past experience it was found out that at international level teams will work him out.

Pitch reading
-Afridi, Waqar, Intikhab, Grant & all senior players with their years of international experience failed to judge the day-night spinning pitch & played with 4 fast bowlers? Actually there was news of addition of 4th fast bowler (Sami) 1 day before the match

Captaincy
-Pakistan certainly could not have contained Indian batting on this poor total, so they had to attack but there was no slips when Yuvraj came to bat, so nobody was there to catch him out which he gave
-When Pakistani management saw the ball is turning huge then why they did not send players who play spin well, like Sarfaraz, Hafeez?
-There seemed to be no planning for Kohli, e.g. they did not try to trap him, bowling short with short leg, Deep square leg & Deep midwicket they had to try something out of the blue but they didn't

Batting
-There was no plan B of Pakistani batsmen, when the pitch was turning they did not try to use the crease or exaggerated foot works or singles/double they were trying to hit the ball, learn from Kohli

Reality check
-We don't need to brag our fast bowling, face the reality Pakistani fast bowling is just reasonable not good as they don't defend even mediocre totals

 

Losing to India in 2015 Cricket World Cup in exactly the same fashion as 2011 world cup semi final:

Pakistani team is not learning from Past, hence losing again and again against India in World cups,
Conclusion:
It is not rocket science, first of all Pakistani team need psychologist for mental preparation to play against India in world cup and Pakistan cannot win till they learn from Past mistakes.

                               My views on 2011 Cricket world:

Indian hard work paid off, they were determined to become WORLD CHAMPIONS, read this 'India planned final for a year'

http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc_cricket_worldcup2011/content/current/story/509298.html

whereas v r selecting players on the bases on name who more often do not perform than put up a good show like Abdul Razzaq (Once in a while performs & when somebody tells him that if he does not perform now he'll be dropped), Kamran Akmal (Who according to one newspaper catch 8 and drop 10 catches, got so many aliases like Kamran Dropmal, Kamran F**kmal, & believe me he is no Sir. Donald Bradman with the bat only performed against the weak bowling of W.I), Younus Khan in ODI (Never been a good ODI batsman, either play mother of test matches or all of a sudden try to be Shahid Afridi), Misbah Ul Haq (His batting strategy is beyond explanation), ohh... my God, where v r going? :-@

Every world cup winner captain has been the special talent in

-1975 & 1979 Clive Lloyd did unite different players from different island for one cause, that is to win the world cup,

-1983 Kapil Dev one of the best all rounder ever, lead India well throughout the competition, his 175 against Zimbabwe in 1983 world cup not only saved India from humiliating defeat but this gave India the confidence that they badly needed, in the final he took a special catch to dismiss Viv Richards and turn the final game around to upset the black tornado,

-1987 Allan Border was the first man, who made Australia what Australia then became the untouchable, record breaking machine team,

-1992 Imran Khan the best all rounder and captain this world has ever seen, with bad shoulder & bandage on, he kept on bowling and batted at top order and played crucial innings in most important matches like Semi final and final,

-1996 Arjuna Ranatunga give lunkans the believe that not only they can compete at the world stage but also to become the force to deal in the cricketing world,

-1999 Steve Waugh made his world cup first century in a very important knock out match against mighty South Africa and then moved on to beat everyone to hold the trophy,

-2003 & 2007 Ricky Ponting one of the best batsman who always performed when badly needed, Harbhajan Singh used to make fun of his batting against him, but in the final in 2003 he played the match winning knock and threw Harbhajan to cleaners,

-2011 everybody knew that Mahindra singh Dhoni has the talent both as a player and as an attacking leader who fights from the front, has won the world cup despite of their weak bowling.

We need same kind of leadership; Shahid Afridi was very good with his bowling, don't want to talk about his batting specially against Australia, as a captain he was reasonable but bad at some patches like not having planning for batting power play, not setting attacking field even when the batting was under pressure, like in Semi Final when Dhoni came for batting was not in form and gave slip chances but Pakistan had no slips and it did happen to almost every player, but he guessed it very late, ah…

Some encouraging points though:

*-By the grace of Allah; Pakistan was the only team which proved its dominance of bowling on the best batting lineup in the world which is India, even after dropping so many catches and ground misfieldings Pakistani bowling managed to restrict Indians to only 260 on an Indian pitch, you need some good bowling to do that.

*-When India won 50 overs Cricket world cup in 1983 Pakistan moved on to become favorites in 1987 & won it in 1992, so still there is a 'RAY OF HOPE', & also when India won T20 world cup in 2007 we came back to win the very next edition in 2009 ;-) 

              On losing to India in a semi final 2011 Cricket World Cup: 

                                                              (HELP OURSELVES)

Verily never will God change the condition of a people until they (strive to) change it themselves
[Holy Qur'an- 13:11]

R v really helping ourself (Kya Allah khush hoga hum say)?

1-Hawai firing kar rahay hain, jis say log zakhmi hoae, aur janain bhi jati hain. 80 wounded 2 killed – ARY NEWS

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2-Patakhay pharay ja rahay hain, jab masjid main namaz ho rahi hai, ghar main bimar hain, bozorg hain.

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3-Larkian nangay sir, Pakistani shirt pehan kr baghair dopattay k, tv par bazaron main ghoom rahi hain.

(Kuch log aitraaz kartay hain k phir tou gair Musalmano ko tou jeetna hi nahi chayae, tou bhaiyon, yae donia tou jannat hai unk liay unko choot hai yahan, magar hamaray liay is dona main chutti nahi hai, jo boay gain wahi katay gain akhrat main, aur un k liay sakhti hogi wahan aur wo bhi hamesha k liay, tou mawazzna nahi hai)

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4-Aamalon ka daromadaar neeyaton pr hai dil say doa karni thi bhalay sirf aik bar hi kartay, sms ki machine gun say kuch nahi hoa karta.

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5-Log Dada elephant, najomion k chakkar main hain, jab k mustakbil ka hall sirf Allah janta hai, Islam ki bonyadi taleem hai.

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V dropped countless catches if they comes, bcoz v r mentally dent in world cups when it comes to India, Pakistani team ko 'Psychologist' ki zarorat hai. India say 'world cup' main jeetnay k liay, har bar bori tarah haaray hain, 5 out of 5 now in 50 overs & 2 times in 20 twenty format (fighting but still world cup defeats).

Synopsis: Khalat kaam kartay hoay DOA kaisay qabool hogi?, HUM SABKO DOKHA DAY SAKTAY HAIN, ALLAH KO NAHI.

"Nothing new losing to India in a world cup match, it always happened".

                     "ALLAH KARAM KARAY, HUM SABKO HIDAYAAT DAE"- Aameen

V used to lose to India more than often before Javed Miandad hit the very famous 6 to Chetan Sharma, it made India scared from us, that they did not even want to play with us, v need the same kind of PASSION, HEROICS from a single man or from a team otherwise

A million dollar question, can v overcome our mental dent and beat India in a world cup match? 

Dhoni's Tootka:

There must be some ‘TOTKA’ in MS Dhoni’s hair style as he changed his hair style within hours after winning the world cup, he won world cup at night but on morning next day he had a time to trim his hair, surprise surprise…, as wining after the biggest event of Cricket, he had the time to do so, normally people & players for a month don't even think of any other thing then to celebrate the great victory.

When he had long hair India won T20 world cup, with normal hair style he won 50 overs world cup and now he has very short hair, hm….

          Noticeable retirements:

*Shoaib Akhtar(PAK): Yes he will be missed, but unfortunately he did not touch the same peak as his ideals Wasim Akram & Waqar Younus did, Shoaib had the potential, but his direction was unclear due to many controversies like (his attitude on & off the field, objections on his bowling action & injuries), it's sad because so much was expected from him, but he'll also be remembered for good reasons as well for e.g. His bowling performance in Australia against Australia in indoor stadium, performance at Sharjah against South Africa & 2 yorkers 2 clean bowled of 2 legends Rahul Dravid & Sachin Tendulkar (his 1^st duck in test matches).

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/42655.html 

*Muttiah Muralitharan(Sri): Most successful wicket taker in the world in Test matches and in ODI, had a sad retirement as he did not pick any wicket and lost the world cup final to India. Last but not least I do believe that his action was not very clear. 

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/49636.html 

*Steve Tikolo(Ken): A Caribbean flavored batsman, who could play great shots on every corner of the ground.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/24728.html

Raymond Davis case & us!!!

We lost the only hope we had to get back Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, now Ex foreign-minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi as he was bragging should hold a press conference to expose the truth which he was not able to do in the court as he was waiting for a special Gold foiled invitation. And Imran Khan I guess wanted to take the route to PM house with extremist's backing, somebody tells him that “VIOLENCE 4 nothing is not ISLAM", as they will not help Islam and Pakistan instead doing a job of termite.
Raymond Davis was released & the next day in return USA celebrated through a drone attack killing 41 Pakistani http://bit.ly/gEj7Wi normally drone kill 7 to 8 people, so you can check the amount of happiness and anger of Americans (as long as Pakistan take alms from USA & not stand on its feet, it simply can't protect its citizens & can't protect its rights from USA) and at the same time USA can send as many as much they wanted spies to Pakistan who can do whatever they want whenever they want remember the driver who hit and run 'Ibad ur Rehman' reached USA without a question asked.

Oh… my Allah gives us strength and sense to deal with such incidents. Ameen.

Verily never will God change the condition of a people until they (strive to) change it themselves
[The Holy Qur'an- 13:11]