" ليست المشكلة أن نعلم المسلم عقيدة هو يملكها، و إنما المهم أن نرد إلي هذه العقيدة فاعليتها و قوتها الإيجابية و تأثيرها الإجتماعي و في كلمة واحدة : إن مشكلتنا ليست في أن نبرهن للمسلم علي وجود الله بقدر ما هي في أن نشعره بوجوده و نملأ به نفسه، بإعتباره مصدرا للطاقة. " - المفكر الجزائري المسلم الراحل الأستاذ مالك بن نبي رحمه الله -
لنكتب أحرفا من النور، لنستخرج كنوزا من المعرفة و الإبداع و العلم و الأفكار
When he moved to Medford, Oregon, in 2016, a rented trailer was the best that Monty Potter could afford. The $950 per month he paid for the two-bedroom mobile home didn’t leave much room for error on his wages as a grocery store supervisor, but he could manage it for himself and his two school-aged sons.
Then came the Almeda fire. Starting in Ashland on September 8, flames ripped northward up the 18-mile greenway that connects a string of communities in Jackson County, all but wiping out the smallest two, Talent and Phoenix. Two people died and at least 2,350 homes were destroyed, including Potter’s, which stood near the Phoenix-Medford border. He wishes he’d known to pack a go-bag.
He lost everything: his family’s belongings, his truck, his savings, even his wife’s ashes.
Now, as he searches to rehouse his family, Potter is finding an already-tight housing market has become even tighter. Before it was contained, the fire wiped out at least nine mobile home and RV parks as well as several clusters of apartments and homes to seniors, working-class households and Latino immigrant families. The rentals that are available now are beyond Potter’s means.
“When you lose everything, you don’t have the thousands that are required to get into these places,” Potter said. “The burden is even greater when people have lost everything.”
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