A day after my arrival, on September 19, 2017, they announced as breaking news, a new earthquake in Mexico City.
\nOnce again I had nothing left to say but Alhamdulillah.
\nOn the night of September 7, 2017, an earthquake, with a magnitude of 8.4 on the Richter scale, shook southern Mexico reaching the capital.
\nAt that precise moment I was in San Crist\u00f3bal de las Casas, calmly ready to sleep, like the rest of the population, when we began to feel a slight tremor that increased little by little.
\nEverything happened very quickly, I only remember seeing the windows shake and running to warn my partner who had already gone to bed.
\nSuddenly he was out of the house.
\nThe ground was moving, alarms were heard, dogs, but the most shocking of all were seeing colored lights in the sky.
\nI felt different sensations since it was beautiful and terrifying at the same time.
\nThe shaking lasted about three minutes, but I felt it for only a few seconds.
\nWhen everything calmed down, we met with the rest of the people closest to us, surprisingly I was not afraid.
\nOnce we checked that we were all okay, Sheikh Nafia Perez indicated that we should stay a while longer to do Dhikr.
\nThat was something that definitely calmed my heart and allowed me to rest the night, even though everyone was still uneasy about aftershocks.
\nThe next day we became aware of the damage that had occurred due to the earthquake, and a couple of days later, the Muslim Community of Mexico in Chiapas organized a trip to bring humanitarian aid to Juchit\u00e1n de Zaragoza, a Mexican city located in the southeast of the state of Oaxaca.
\nThere were three cars that participated in the expedition.
\nThe trip consisted of visiting the most affected places, where we were able to experience how hundreds of people had become homeless and therefore were staying in shelters.
\nEntire families in the streets, sheltered under small plastic tarpaulins and using the few pieces of furniture they had been able to salvage from the rubble.
\nThe following days we dedicated ourselves to getting supplies that were necessary for the population such as toilet paper, canned food and food that were not perishable, to later distribute them.
\nIt was many hours by car and resting as much as necessary, but it was all worth it.
\nSeeing the smile that those people offered you, who, from one moment to the next, had lost everything, is priceless.
\nWhat surprised me the most during the trip was the hospitality and immense gratitude we received both from the authorities and from the affected people themselves.
\nIn these situations it is easy to enter a state of panic and despair, however, that place breathed calm between the continuous aftershocks, which occurred almost every ten minutes, and the rubble of the city.
\nOnce in Seville, remembering the events, I stop to think about what was that certainty of security that made me not go into a state of shock on the night of the earthquake and that was the company.
\nAnd that company is that of the Fuqara.
\nZulaija Nieto Jim\u00e9nez, Seville, 20 September 2017.
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