A Moment For Reflection

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A Moment for Reflection Jul 1, 2008

A Pair of New Shoes

A pair of young feet in a pair of very old shoes walked along an awfully muddy road.…

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A Moment for Reflection May 1, 2008

Happy Birthday, Son!

Aisha looked at the clock hanging nearby. “It is time,” she hurried, “I have to go.” She wondered…

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A Moment for Reflection Jan 1, 2008

The Wonderer

When you travel long enough and become a stranger to every land you step on, you stop having…

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A Moment for Reflection Jan 1, 2008

Who Wants a Transformer?

He is God, the Creator, the Evolver, the Giver of Forms and Colors. (Hashr 59:24) Halima was making…

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A Moment for Reflection Oct 1, 2007

Paper People

First came to realize my power to distinguish paper people in a formal talk at the university. The…

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A Moment for Reflection Jul 1, 2007

A Saturday Unlike Others

Many of us either heard about or read Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince. The hero of the…

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A Moment for Reflection Jul 1, 2005

The Medal Maker

And this world’s life is naught but a play and an idle sport and certainly the abode of…

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A Moment for Reflection Jan 1, 2005

Vanity of Worldly Desires

A gold ingot fell into the hands of a pious man and so turned his head that his…

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A Moment for Reflection Oct 1, 2004

The Guests of The Palace

The sandstorm was over. It was a horrible night. The caravan was lost in the middle of nowhere.…

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A Moment for Reflection Oct 1, 2003

A Moment for Reflection

Camels on the Roof One night, when sleeping, a man heard sounds on his roof. There were loud…

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A Moment for Reflection Jul 1, 1999

One Remedy

O brother who thinks of the pleasures of this world and suffers distress at illness! If this world…

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A Moment for Reflection Jul 1, 1997

The Merchant and The Parrot

A well-to-do merchant planned a long business trip to India. He was a good man and looked after…

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A Moment for Reflection Apr 1, 1997

The Unmaking of A Young Thief

A young man (let us call him Amjad) was walking home, head down, kicking stones on the path.…

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