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Wael Allou poses at his restaurant, Al Quds Grill in Roxboro. (Fariha Naqvi-Mohamed, CityNews).<\/p>\nRamadan is a month about so much more than just fasting. It\u2019s about generosity, giving charity and showing up for your community. <\/p>\n
That\u2019s exactly what Wael Allou is doing with his restaurant Al-Quds Grill in Roxboro on Montreal\u2019s West Island.<\/p>\n
This Ramadan, he\u2019s offering a free Ramadan meal to anyone who wants one. No conditions, no questions asked. You don\u2019t have to be Muslim and you don\u2019t even have to be fasting. You need to show up and ask for a Ramadan meal.<\/p>\n
\u201cRamadan make us feel hungry, which is a good thing because you remember people that feels the same way all year long. Since I\u2019m a kid I\u2019ve been taught that if I can feed someone, I should,\u201d Allou said.<\/p>\n
\u201cPhysically it\u2019s a bit hard because you\u2019re cooking food and you\u2019re fasting all day long so you\u2019re surrounded by food. Feeding people while you\u2019re fasting, it reminds you of why Ramadan is so special.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wael Allou poses at his restaurant, Al Quds Grill in Roxboro. (Fariha Naqvi-Mohamed, CityNews).<\/p>\n
While Allou\u2019s family is from Palestine, he was born in Lebanon and immigrated to Montreal in 2006.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do this not just because of the money. I don\u2019t think about the financial thing about it. We do it because we feel like we want to, we want to give it back to the community. I\u2019ve been taught since I\u2019m a kid. I don\u2019t like seeing people hungry around me. So I would love to help and share. Sharing is so important these days.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen people see what we do and they all come and support us. When we need the community, everyone comes and supports us. So it\u2019s nothing to do with financial. It doesn\u2019t matter if we lose here and there. We give, we gain more by giving.\u201d<\/p>\n
Allou\u2019s generosity is notorious in the West Island of Montreal, and it runs all year round.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love this community, Roxboro, West Island in general. There\u2019s people here from all over the places and they all live together and they support us all year long. So what we do in Ramadan or through the year, it\u2019s a thank you from us to everyone that support us all the year.\u201d<\/p>\n
While the success of his restaurant might tell you otherwise, this is the first restaurant Allou ever operated.<\/p>\n
\u201cI studied business and when we opened the restaurants, I\u2019d never been in a restaurant before in my life. So it was a risky thing to do. But we manage it and here we are.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlease don\u2019t hesitate (to stop by). Everyone is welcomed. If you\u2019re in need, if you can\u2019t afford a meal outside, if you\u2019re struggling, if you\u2019re hungry, please come by. Al-Quds Grill is always open, not just in Ramadan, any time of the year. We don\u2019t ask no questions, no judgments. You\u2019re welcomed like a family.\u201d<\/p>\n
Allou shared one important reminder.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlease don\u2019t abuse the thing we\u2019re doing, because we\u2019re trying to help the real people in need. There\u2019s a lot of people that I know there\u2019s some people who come and take food that they really can afford, they can go buy (it). But still, we don\u2019t say anything. We give out the food because we give it from our heart. So we don\u2019t ask anything.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I tell those people, please, please keep this to people in need, that people that really need this meal, that they can\u2019t afford it. Because there\u2019s a lot here. So we\u2019re trying to help as much as people as we can. But still, we\u2019re going to give everyone, anyone, no questions, no judgment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ramadan is a month about so much more than just fasting. It\u2019s about generosity, giving charity and showing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-545569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}