CONCLUSION: SH ISAAC KASSIM – THORNWOOD ISLAMIC CENTRE
I worked at Isipingo for 2 years and left due to the small pay of R2000 a month which was too low for my needs.
I then went to stay in Thornwood where I put a veranda in my house and started a madrassa on the veranda. Then due to a big influx of Madressa children, Darul Ihsan built a structure in my yard to use as a Madressa and Musalla. Life became unbearable in 2019 and 2020 when there was a lockdown. I could not sell what I was sewing and had no other income at all. I depended on the R350 government relief.
Then towards the end of 2020, Brother Ismat visited my Madressa and promised to assist with a welfare grant for the time being. I was very happy and eventually HUDA SA started paying an amount I had never earned in my life. Then suddenly HUDA SA started assisting the Madrassa in a way I never imagined where the children started getting food every day and the community's most desperate started getting food relief every month. Honestly, I have never experienced such generosity before.
My job of teaching and Dawah became much easier and I don't want to remember the hardships and economic difficulties. May Allah bless and strengthen HUDA SA, and keep it as long as Allah wants for hundreds of years to come.
