Tag: Paisley St

03 Al Malik – Dawud and Jawut

Ya Malik

I pray to you to use your strength to protect the little guys in Australian society from the big guys who do not care about them.

And, when the big guys do not stop hurting the little guys, then please replace them with better leaders just like you did in the story of David and Goliath. (Dawud and Jawut in the Islamic tradition.)

La hawla wala quwwata illa billah (there is no strength or power except with God)

Geoff Fox, Paisley St, Footscray, Victoria, 29th May, 2026

BACKGROUND INFORMATION TO THIS PRAYER

The Salvation Army is like Jawut aka Goliath. It is a billion dollar organisation backed by a 100 billion dollar organisation, the Victorian government, lead by Jacinta Allan, who attended the recent opening of the Salvos’ Twilight Cafe in Paisley St.

Jacinta Allan has committed $950,000 to the new Salvo cafe. I think that is a mistake.

Small businesses nearby are deeply concerned about how this change in the neighbourhood will effect patronage for them. These are little guys. Like Dawud aka David. They are very pure people. They remind me of the people whom Robert Menzies described on May 22nd in 1942 as “the real life of this nation (which) is to be found …….. in the homes of people who are nameless and unadvertised, and who, whatever their individual religious conviction or dogma, see in their children their greatest contribution to the immortality of their race.”

Before finally committing to the $950,000 for this Goliath, Jacinta Allan should be making sure that no small family business Davids in or near Paisley St will be put out of business by the money she provides.

Neither the Salvation Army nor the Victorian government should assume that, just because they are very big, they can afford to ignore what the little guy is trying to tell them.

Every single Christian at the Salvation Army should be very familiar with how the story of David and Goliath ended.

Will they hear my prayer?

I know that God (Al Bashir As Sami) is listening and watching.

But Jacinta Allan and the Salvos are not God.