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eDigest # 216- June 7, 2005
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1. The search for happiness by M. Afzal Janjua
2. UNDERAGE CHILD CAMEL JOCKEYS in Middle East
3. Will U.S. Foreign Policy Increase Terrorism?
4. Remembering Shatila and Sabra Camps. Prof. (Dr.) Anwar Ul Haque
5. "Body Politics or Meat Market." B. Syed
6. Vocabulary Building Exercises
O ye who believe! seek help with patient perseverance
and prayer; for Allah is with those who patiently persevere.
AlQuran, 002.153
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Sabr - Patience
As-Sabr (patience) is mentioned in the Qur'an in
more than seventy places. This is because of the tremendous
importance that patience has in the deen of Islam. It has been said that
every good action has a limited reward, from ten-fold up to seven-hundred
fold, except for patience whose reward has no limit. That is because of
Allah's words "Only the patient are paid their reward without
reckoning."
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Quotable Quotes
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"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in
liking
what one has to do." (James M. Barrie) |
"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something
to do, something to love and something to hope for." --Joseph Addison |
"Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you
have; it depends solely on what you think."_Dale Carnegie
"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting
something we have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do
have." -Frederick Keonig |
The search for happiness
By M. Afzal Janjua
We all seek happiness but hardly think what it is. It is a state of
mind that is achieved through satisfaction of needs and achievement
of objectives. The basic human needs are Physiological, Security,
Social, Esteem and Self -Actualizations, as per hierarchy of needs
given by Maslow the well-known psychologist. Some other words for
this expression are contentment, cheerfulness, gladness, pleasure, glee,
joy bliss and delight. All these refer to different degrees and states
of mind emanating from different emotional experiences
Self- actualization is seldom achieved and not by all people.
Most of the people are limited to social or at the most esteems needs,
let us understand that happiness means different things to different people
on different occasions. For some it is wealth, for others it is health
and yet there are others who want a combination of these two and much much
more. For full article go to:
http://www.netvert.biz/paklink/articles/happiness.html
MAJEC is former Chairman Pakistan Insurance Institute
and Divisional State Life. He is now teaching MBA programs at different
universities besides providing consultancy to NIPA and some other
organizations in the public and private sectors. He has also authored
some books on HR related subjects. |
Excerpts
UNDERAGE CHILD CAMEL JOCKEYS in Middle East
Camel races are held each year at the Janadriyah festival area on the
northeast side of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. The unfortunate camel jockies
are little kids under the ages of three to seven years only, on slave labour,
living in private jails under most miserable circumstances. This year's
camel race winner was a 6 years old boy.
Mr Ansar Burney, Advocate, said that less or more 40,000 underage children,
mostly from Asian and African countries including Pakistan, India, Bangladesh,
SriLanka, Somalia, Ethiopia and Sudan are being used in Gulf, Middle East
and Arab Countries, as "child camel jockeys" against their will and under
most miserable circumstances. These children whose ages are from two years
to seven years are living in private jails on slave labour
The first rehabilitation centre for underage Child Camel Jockeys under
the supervision of the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International in Abu
Dhabi (UAE) is in accordance with the UAE government's policy to eliminate
the use of underage boys in this sport. Full story at
http://www.ansarburney.com/news1.htm#news3
Will U.S. Foreign Policy Increase Terrorism?
Excerpted from an article by Paul Cochrane
Worldpress.org contributing editor
“As long as American foreign policy remains the same and the Palestinian
issue is left unresolved, the U.S. ‘war on terror’ will increase terrorism
by 100 percent,” said Lebanese Shiite Muslim leader Grand Ayatollah Mohammed
Hussein Fadlallah.
In an interview, Fadlallah talked about the effects of U.S. counter-terrorism
strategy, the assassination attempt on his life in 1985 by the CIA and
the recent U.S. sanctions on Syria.
Talking at his residence in the Beirut suburb of Haret Hreik, the aging
Shiite spiritual leader, his eyes bright and alert, said: “the method the
American administration has used in the war against terror may have complicated
the situation even more.”
COMMENTS by B. Syed: In 1985 the "first bombing in a Mosque" was
carried out by South Lebanese Army operatives (Christian Phallangists,
supported by Israel and CIA), to kill Shiite leader Sheikh Mohammad Fadlallah.
But instead the bomb killed more than 80 Muslim worshippers in the Mosque,
and nothing happened to Fadlallah. This was a retaliation ordered
by Reagan for the revenge of US Marines killed in Beirut Barracks. The
trend of bombing Mosques was set from then on, and what's happening in
Pakistan and Afghanistan is an extension of that activity. For further
information on this subject, search the key words [Sheikh Mohammad Fadlallah,
Assassination, Lebanon 1985] through Google www.google.com search
engine.
Remembering Shatila and Sabra Camps.
Prof. (Dr.) Anwar Ul Haque
16th September 1982 had been one of the darkest pages of human history.
Thousands of innocent and unarmed girls, women and elderly men in two refugee
camps of Shatila and Sabira were surrounded by Lebanese Phalangists; an
ally of Israel. A cold blood murder was determined for all of them by the
same very people who claim to be the victims of Hitler’s concentration
camps. Ariel Sharon was then Israel’s defense minister. According to Ariel
Sharon's 22 September 1982 declarations in the Knesset (Israeli parliament),
the entry of the Phalangists into the refugee camps of Beirut was decided
on Wednesday 15 September 1982 at 15.30. Also according to General Sharon,
the Israeli commandant had received the following instruction: "The Tsahal
forces are forbidden to enter the refugee camps. The "mopping-up" of the
camps will be carried out by the Phalanges or the Lebanese army."
From dawn on 15 September 1982, Israeli fighter-bombers were flying
low over West Beirut and Israeli troops had secured their entry. From 9am,
General Sharon was present to personally direct the Israeli penetration,
installing himself in the general army area at the Kuwait embassy junction
situated at the edge of Shatila. From the roof of this six-storey building,
it was possible to clearly observe the town and the camps of Sabra and
Shatila.
Full article at http://www.netvert.biz/paklink/articles/sabra.html
Prof. (Dr.) Anwar Ul Haque
Consultant Pathologist , 116. St. 49 F 11/3 Islamabad Pakistan 44000
phone: 92-51-2293707 - email: haque@dsl.net.pk
Vocabulary Building Exercises
Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited
vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future. __Jim
Rohn
The best way to build vocabulary is to read and read and keep a dictionary
handy and resolve to learn minimum ten new words every day.
In the following test you have to find the word for which the meaning
or synonyms are given.
(1) Studious, sedulous, assiduous, persevering, laboring, hardworking,
plodding, slogging, laborious, hardworking
(2) The branch of applied psychology that is concerned with efficient
management of an industrial labor force and especially with problems encountered
by workers in a mechanized environment.
(3) Preservation from loss, damage, or neglect: Valuable manuscripts
were saved from deterioration under the program of library conservation.
The controlled use and systematic protection of natural resources, such
as forests, soil, and water systems.The maintenance of a physical quantity,
such as energy or mass, during a physical or chemical change.
(4) The quality or condition of being unwise or indiscreet. an unwise
or indiscreet act.
(5) Eembezzle. To use illegally. Using dishonestly and unauthorizedly
money or material for one's own use;
(6) To put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness
or laziness. To postpone or delay needlessly.
(7) Provided or serving only for the time being; temporary.
(8) person hired temporarily for a job, typically before having taken
an examination qualifying the person for permanent employment: A clause
in a document making a qualification, condition, or restriction.
(9) A representative to a conference or convention.
(10) The act of delegating or state of being delegated.
The authority, office, or position of a delegate.
For answers click the link below
http://www.netvert.biz/wordpower/exercise2.html
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"Body Politics or Meat Market."
Comments on our article last week about beauty pageants
The austrakian author has chosen the right title for Beuty Pageanyts
as "Body Politics or Meat Market." These days the women's fashions have
gone haywire, with the navels exposed and breasts oozing out of the peek-a-boo
bras, inviting problems. If this is the kind of progress the "Enlightened
or Illuminated" Muslims want to follow the West, then our society is seeking
God's punishment as it happened in the past to Romans and followers of
Prophet Loot. Islam is a more
than religion (like one day Christianity in Church and Judaism in Synagogue)
and a Complete Way of Life. All the devine admonition or laws to conduct
life are prescribed not only for the individuals, but also for the PEACE
in society. Bring in Nudity in the form of Beuty Pageants and Fashion shows,
and that's a sure shot
prescription for our moral decay and ruins of the society.
B. Syed, Houston, Texas
Smile@humor.nut
Q. There is a ministry for power and electricity. What do they
do?
Answer: They worry about current events!.
A couple from Karachi stayed in a posh hotel in Murree and ordered
breakfast.
In order to save money the wife said that she won’t have eggs and asked
waiter to bring the cheapest breakfast. The waiter said that charges for
breakfast are fixed whether you take eggs or not. The wife said, “Ok then
I will have eggs.”
"How do you want your eggs?" the waiter asked.
"Raw and in the shell," the wife replied. She took the two eggs home.
Psychiatrist: Do you use your right or left hand to stir tea?
Patient: My right hand, of course.
Psychiatrist: [sadly] Very serious. Normal people use teaspoons.
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