by Mohamed Ismail Bukharia | Feb 16, 2009 | Poetry
when i was born my Eyes were closed & i was told what i would see. when i got older my Eyes opened; i didn't look i just believed. then i started to See & Look, Think, Read & Remember- Words made things complicated; the Truth i saw was...
by Mohamed Ismail Bukharia | Feb 16, 2009 | Hadith
Abu Sa`id Samurah bin Jundub (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: I was a boy during the lifetime of Messenger of Allah (Peace Be Upon Him), and used to commit to my memory what he said, but I do not narrate what I preserved because there were among us people who...
by Mohamed Ismail Bukharia | Feb 13, 2009 | Wise Words
O son, a hundred thousand tests await thee, whoever thou art who sayest "I am a prince of the gate." If the vulgar detect not such a one by tests, yet the skilled wayfarers seek of him a sign. When a man makes pretension to be a tailor, the...
by Mohamed Ismail Bukharia | Feb 13, 2009 | Smile
Piet was a bachelor and his buddies decided to give him a parrot as a gift. The parrot was fully grown with a bad attitude and worse vocabulary. Every other word was an expletive. Those that weren't expletives were, to say the least, rude. Piet tried hard...
by Mohamed Ismail Bukharia | Feb 12, 2009 | Smile
Mother had decided to trim her household budget wherever possible, so instead of having a dress dry-cleaned she washed it by hand. Proud of her savings, she boasted to my father, "Just think, Fred, we are five dollars richer because I washed this dress by...
