Mini-Roadtrip thru the GTA

Today was YM's Feed the Streets Event... for those of you who don't know of the event, it's when a group of us go down usually to the downtown TO area and distribute meals to the homeless. Insh'Allah, I hope more of you can come and join us next time :) Ofcourse, firstly we do this for the sake & pleasure of Allah, but when you see the sincerity of their appreciation, you realize just how fortunate we are to not have to worry about our next meal, something I KNOW I take for granted. And it really is a humbling experience.

Ofcourse, we ran into the odd "odd" people... but what can you do, it's a HUGE city, full of people for all walks of life.. it's times like these I really wish we had more guys helping us out.. so yeah, there were these group of younger guys... we contemplated approaching them.. but then realized it would look bad if we didn't approach as we were walkin straight towards them.. so we went upto them... we could smell it on them and saw the bottles... but too late to turn back. They only took a coupla bottles of water. The worst is when we run out of food... and then see a mother and a child... which actually did happen today.. all we had left were water bottles, apples and muffins... but no real meals... so we jus gave them everything we had... breaks your heart man. The plan for next time: more manpower, more food insh'Allah!

After that, we (Maddy, Naya, FBI and I) drove down to the Mohammed Al-Shareef lecture in Scarborough... Mash'Allah, amazing speaker and topic (Tawbah). Then we were hungry... so we went to Burger King.. haven't eaten there since like High School... veggie burgers... Mmmmmmmmmm! I rem last Feed the Streets back in January, the soundtrack was 786... Nazia's van.. this time the soundtrack was Yusuf Islam's Bismillah ... which Maddy selectively chose all the Zain Bhikha songs to bop to and hate on the rest.. which was when we switched over to Shaam... they're pretty good, a bit of a paki sound to them.

So that was our lil' mini-roadtrip.. Brampton to Sauga to TO to Scarb and back :) Had a great time guys :) I am gonna miss the van, Naya...