Congo's Ahmadiyya Muslim community organizes voluntary blood donation campaign

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The commitment of Ahmadi Muslims at a time when the world celebrates the day of blood donors is in fact a response to the recommendations of Islam

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Source/Credit: Central African Information Agency
By Lucien Dianzenza | June 15, 2015

"I'm an Ahmadi Muslim. My blood is for others"could be read also on the posters

Sixty members of this religious group responded on June 14 at the call of their community by participating in voluntary and free blood donation during the collection organized with CNTS on the occasion of the World Blood Donors Day.

Ahmadi Muslims, members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the DRC (Comaco) Kinshasa responded favorably, for the second time at the call of their community to a voluntary and uncompensated donations of blood. It was part of a campaign organized at the Ahmadiyya Clinic in Masina, in partnership with the National Blood Transfusion Centre (CNTS).

On this occasion, sixty members of this community whose missionaries have graciously agreed to offer their blood to save lives. They went one by one before the table of doctors and nurses of CNTS for examinations, before moving into the collection room setup in one of the premises of this medical training of Comaco.

Convey the true image of Islam

"Give a rare and precious gift. Donating blood means giving life," it was stated on a banners flown on this occasion for the motivations that led to blood donation by he Ahmaddiyya Muslim community in the DRC.

"I'm an Ahmadi Muslim. My blood is for others"could be read also on the posters.

This action of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the DRC also has a basis in the Muslim Holy Book, the Qur'an, which recommends, in verse 33 of chapter 5: "Whoever kills a person, it is as if he killed all mankind. And whosoever shall give life to a person, it will be as if he had given life to all mankind ... ".

The commitment of Ahmadi Muslims at a time when the world celebrates the day of blood donors is in fact a response to the recommendations of Islam, which calls for good works. It is also, according to the deputy legal representative of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in the DRC, Omari Kasende Abdan, a way for community members to work to change the world view of Islam.

According to the Ahmadiyya missionary, "Islam is not to terrorize the living, but Islam is here to give life, contrary to this view that links Islam with terrorism."

"Islam means peace. The Muslim is the one who gives, who brings peace and security. Today those who carryout terrorism gives bad image to Islam. But that is not mean Islam. I think it is a waste of time, which leads some Muslims to practice terrorism in Islam. But the faith of Islam is not terrorism," stressed the deputy legal representative of the Comaco.

This action, which is not the first of its kind for members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in the DRC, is also considered, according to Omari Kasende Abdan as the contribution of this religion to the Congolese society. "We are humanitarian. As servants of God, we also serve humanity, " he has said.

A journalist who came on assignment also consented to give blood. He joined with community members to do the "formality" associated with the gesture, which consists of passing exams at the screening table where he had to also remove the kit to complete his act of blood donation that saves lives.

Raising awareness of blood donation

It is to be noted that the World Health Day celebrated on June 14 was enacted in 2004 under the initiative of WHO, the International Federation of the Red Cross and the International Society of Blood Transfusion . It aims to thank all voluntary blood donors around the world but also to raise awareness of the importance of voluntary blood donation, anonymous and free. This day is celebrated every year on this date because it is that of the birthday of Karl Landsteiner, an Austrian doctor who discovered in 1900 the ABO blood group system and received the Nobel Prize in medicine for it.



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