Alhambdullilah, during the third brainstorming organizational meeting of the Kin Fellowship Movement (KFM) more than 200 relatives from Zam Ba Sul Ta forms the twenty committees for the Grand Family Reunion aimed at bringing in more than a thousand relatives from Western Mindanao for a three day reunion in Garden Orchid Hotel on May 21-23, 2014. The creed of the KFM is inspired from a Hadith..You do no truly believe, unless you wish for your kins, what you wish for your self. The thrust is Pagkila kilahi iban pag kasi lasa sin mag anak kampung - in Malayu pasuukun, in masuuk pahugutun. Essentially, the aim is for the relatives to get to know each other and strengthen their kinship bonds. The KFM was established in 1993 and will be more than two decades this year. A reunion of more than a hundred twenty years ago has multiplied ten folds since kins had gotten married and quite a number of children. Relative who wish to attend pls coordinate with our provincial and city focal persons. It is high time we find time.for family. Even siblings arw further than third cousins if they seldom see each other. Even third cousins are like brothers and sisters if they spend time with each other. As Antoine de st exupery had said in his classic the little prince... It is the amount of time that you give to a person that makes them important. If you dont find your brother or sister or cousins imoortant, that may be because you never find time to spend with them. We usually spend time with the important people in our lives. With friends. Sadly, while we have lots of family and relatives out there, we seldom, if not, never spend time with them. Not because they arent close, but because we never gave them the chance to be close to us. We could hang out with friends we just met, yet why could we not hang out with family? And kins? This is the heart of why the kin fellowship movement was born It is a movement to facilitate and provide venue where relatives, distant or close are treated with equality and the warm bonds of kinship kept strong as one of the legacy to the next generation. A person could have all the fame, power and money in the world but it would be meaningless without family and kins. A person may live ordinary lives, but with family and kins that affirms, appreciates and gives time, much of what money couldnt buy could be had. It is sad that relatives just meet swiftly without much chatting during weddings..or during seven days of departed relatives..but there isnt real time to spend just hanging out and getting to know and be friends with our relatives. Alhambdullilah, the movement aimed that having fellowship among kins will.change that. For Muslims, we are told that our time in this world may be decades from now or years from now or could be tomorrow. We will never know if tomorrow is our time or a relatives time. Without finding time for or kins...we may just be shocked that another kin has passed and we never got to spend quality time with them. Or if our time comes as well, our kins will be the one to sigh and say.. wish they had spent time with us. But more difficult it is if many kins will not even be affected..since we never became part of their lives or never even met them. Alhambdullilah for making this gathering amongst kins possible. Our duwaa that our first Grand Reunion of a thousand kins will be nourishing for the heart and soul. For many of us who do not have much wealth to give to our children..perhaps just getting to know a thousand relatives will be a good legacy for them to live amongst familiar, caring and loving mega family.
Posted on: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 17:14:49 +0000
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