Enriching Thoughts

Below you see a pot. Cultivate the seeds for what you want to grow and follow the writings on the pot and live a wonderful life here and hereafter

The most powerful channel of communication - Prayer
The most endangered species - Dedicated leaders
The world's most incredible computer - The brain
The greatest "shot in the arm" - Encouragement
The most effective sleeping pill - Peace of mind
The most crippling failure disease - Excuses
The most prized possession - Self esteem
The most satisfying work - Helping others
The two most power-filled words - "I Can"
Our greatest natural resource - Our youth
The most contagious spirit - Enthusiasm
The greatest problem to overcome - Fear
The ugliest personality trait - Selfishness
The greatest loss - Loss of self-respect
The most worthless emotion - Self-pity
The most powerful force in life - Love
The deadliest weapon - The tongue
The worst thing to be without - Hope
The most destructive habit - Worry
The most beautiful attire - SMILE
The greatest asset - Faith
The greatest joy - Giving

Mistakes

Mistakes happen. Not only do they happen, they are guaranteed! The only way you won't make mistakes is by not doing anything. Is that not a mistake again? You will never accomplish great or worthwhile things without risk and risk generally means great mistake potential.

You are probably reading this by light bulbs invented by Thomas Edison. He made over a thousand light bulbs that didn't work. The world would have called them mistakes. He said he learned a thousand ways not to make a bulb.

The way to avoid mistakes is experience. The way to get experience Mistakes!!

Many are afraid to try something new because they feel they might make an error. They are both right and wrong. Yes, they probably make errors but it is good to understand that errors go within the territory.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a narrow field.

Don't feel bad because you messed up with something. Don't be afraid to venture out into a new thing because you are afraid that you might mess up. While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. Remember, you don't drown because you fall into the water. You drown because you fail to get out.

Keep going; don't let the mistakes stop you.

You may only be one light bulb away!!!!!

MISTAKES ARE
M - MESSAGES that give you feedback about life.
I - INTERRUPTIONS that should cause you to think and reflect.
S - SIGNPOSTS that direct you to the right path.
T - TESTS that are designed to mature you.
A - AWAKENINGS that keep you mentally in the game.
K - KEYS that you try when unlocking the next door of opportunity.
E - EXPLORERS that allow you to journey where you've never been before.
S - STATEMENTS about your development and progress.

"The person who is incapable of making a mistake is incapable of anything."

A Prayer

OH ALLAH, I thank You for this day.

I thank You for my being able to see and hear this morning.
I am blessed because You are forgiving God and an understanding God.
You have done so much for me and You keep on blessing me.
Forgive me this day for everything, I have done, said or thought that was not pleasing You.
I ask now for Your forgiveness.
Please keep me safe from all dangers and harms.
Help me to start this day with a new attitude and plenty of gratitude.
Let me make the best of each and everybody to clear my mind so that I can hear from You.
Please broaden my mind that I can accept all things.
Let me not whine and whimper over things, I have no control over.
Let me continue to see sin through God's eye and acknowledge it as evil.
And when the world closes in on me. Let me remember You - to slip away and find a quiet place to pray.
It’s the best response when I am pushed beyond my limits. I know that when I cannot pray, You listen to my heart.
Continue to bless me that I may be a blessing to others.
Keep me strong that I may help the weak.
Keep me uplift that I may have words of encouragement for others.
I pray for those that are lost and cannot find their ways.
I pray for those that are misunderstood.
I pray for those who do not know You intimately.
I pray for those who do not believe, but I thank You that I believe, I believe that God changes people and God changes things.
I pray for all my sisters and brothers. For each and every family member in their households, I pray for peace, love and joy in their homes that they are out of debt and all their needs are met. I pray that every eye that reads this knows there is no problem, circumstance or situation greater than God.
Every battle is in Your hands for You to fight.
I pray that these words be received into the hearts of every eye that sees them and every mouth that confesses them willingly.  
I pray for those who will not accept this.

This is my prayer

Aamen

A Chinese Good Luck Tantra

You may not believe in this but the advice is great!

Read all the way down, you might learn something!!!

ONE	Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
TWO	Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
THREE	Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.
FOUR	When you say, "I love you", mean it.
FIVE	When you say, "I'm sorry", look the person in the eye.
SIX	Be engaged at least six months before you get married.
SEVEN	Believe in love at first sight.
EIGHT	Never laugh at anyone's dreams. People who don't have dreams don't have much.
NINE	Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.
TEN	In disagreements, fight fairly. Please No name calling.
ELEVEN	Don't judge people by their relatives.
TWELVE	Talk slowly but think quickly.
THIRTEEN	When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, "Why do you want to know?"
FOURTEEN	Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
FIFTEEN	Say "bless you" when you hear someone sneeze.
SIXTEEN	When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
SEVENTEEN	Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; Responsibility for all your actions.
EIGHTEEN	Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
NINETEEN	When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
TWENTY	Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
TWENTY ONE	Spend some time alone.

Land of Dying Values

By: Abu Shazil

Today I am in a deep valley, valley of sorrow, plunging me down and down forever. I am trying hard but unable to find a string to hold, an edge to rest my feet on. I am trying to swim in the clouds, fly in the air but all in vein. Momentum is so much that I cannot foresee but a crash, a bang, but suddenly I have entered into a world unknown to me. A strange world, a world of dying values, feeble ethics, misty culture, vague fortune and greedy populace. The story goes like this that a poor lady was brought in  a private hospital with labor pains in emergency. She was admitted in the hospital and within few hours, gave birth to a baby. Spent night in the hospital and in the morning got discharged from the hospital. The management presented her with a hospital bill of Rs. 3500, which she was unable to pay  being from a poor family. She requested the management for allowing her to go home and promised to pay the bill after arranging it. But management refused to accept her proposal and demanded immediate payment, which she could not. Management of the hospital got furious, snatched her new born from her and expelled her from the hospital telling her that her baby will be given to her only, when she clears the hospital dues.

While watching the woman telling her story with tears in her eyes and appeal on her lips to the government authorities for getting her baby back  I had a flash back. I was in a hospital of England for treatment of my wife who was leukemia patient. She had bone marrow transplant and unfortunately developed "Graft versus host disease" leading to her death. The bulk of the bill amount had already been paid but still I owed few thousand pounds to the hospital. While in the turmoil hospital authorities helped me out in completing all the formalities and never ever asked a single question about the bill or payments.

I was in an alien country where no one knew me, NO ONE. No one had a clue that I will be able to pay the arrears or not, NO ONE. What they knew was that I am a human being who has lost a dear one, and that too in a strange country so I definitely deserve their help which they extended, ALL OUT, YES, ALL OUT.

I am thinking and asking myself; could I call a creature a human being who snatched a baby from her mother because she could not arrange few thousand bucks? Am I living in a jungle? Are we the followers of Muhammad (SAW), who is blessing for all the worlds which exist in this universe.? I am unable to find the answer to my questions.

PLEASE TELL ME IF YOU HAVE

It's important for us to explain to our nation that we the followers of Muhammad (SAW) are supposed to be the best in creed, best of clan, best of clique. We have to set the examples. Human beings are the most important species and rest everything is valueless. We have to build our National Character on the foundations of Islam, on the teachings of the last prophet. Lets endeavor to correct our follies, mend our ways, make this blessed land a piece of peace, heaven on earth. Let's make a pledge that we will start from our own self.

Social Bankruptcy

By: Abu Shazil

I live in Pakistan, land of pure is its name implies. But every day rather every hour I listen, read or watch a story, entailing social bankruptcy. My society is deteriorating so rapidly, when I think of this I feel a chilling shock wave in my spinal cord. Today an old pensioner of Pakistan Railway died, awaiting pension, in front of a Bank where dozens of senior citizens spent night, waiting for bank to open so that they could draw their pension, hard earned pension. The pensioner's wait lingered beyond his life and in struggle to hand over his pension book to bank authorities in a crowed suffered suffocation leading to his death. Interestingly today my legislators have passed senior citizens bill, which will look after the interest of senior citizens of Pakistan. Does mere passing of bill will save the senior citizens from the atrocities of these folks to whom state authorities have failed to pay pension to these folks for many months.  They are so hard pressed financially that they decided to stay outside banks with the hope they will get a meager amount called pension to ease off their sufferings at  least for few days.

I would like to ask from my government, is this GOOD GOVERNANCE for which they have been spending billions of rupees? In my books its sheer mismanagement, irresponsible attitude, governmental failure, blah blah… It appears that my fellow countrymen sitting in public offices have stopped working. Simply stopped performed their duties for which they are being paid for. Don't they think this act of theirs falls into the act of professional dishonesty? What difference does it make? My public servants, who pose themselves as BOSSES have never worked honestly. Had they done that the country's development index would have shown that. My GDP growth would have elucidated this fact. My progress indicator would have show upward trends. But unfortunately that is not the case. All the indicators are showing downward trends, precariously falling numbers.

We have entered into a state of bankruptcy. Financial bankruptcy, moral bankruptcy, ethical bankruptcy and SOCIAL BANKRUPTCY.

Be aware that "The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its masses”. Those nations which do not enforce accountability, act in preemption, which do not plan in advance and are not ready to perform their assigned duties, tasks judiciously, vanish from the globe. They lose their right to exist.

LETS MEND OUR WAYS BEFORE ITS TOO LATE

Question?

By: Abu Shazil

Other day when I came home from office, my family members were watching TV with tense faces. After placing my laptop and goodie bags on a side I dropped myself on a cane sofa and joined them. TV was telecasting video streams of Gaddafi's death. A clip of his capture, another of his push and pull scenario of shooting him to death, yet another of people dancing around, firing in air and making victory signs in front of camera.

Suddenly my elder son busted out saying Baba are they Muslims? I stared at him with a big question mark on my face, DO YOU HAVE ANY DOUBT? Baba I understand that Gaddafi was a tyrant. He might have done many wrongs. Over a period of 42 years of rule he might have committed many follies, suppressing opponents, minting money, blah blah… but after all he was a human being. I presume that the people ie. Rebels who were fighting against him are also human beings. Tell my Baba does Islam teach us to shoot a man in captivity? Does Islam tell us to mutilate a dead body? Does Islam allow us to mishandle a dead, kicking him, abusing him, and dancing on him?

I was looking at him with a blank face and finding suitable words to answer his questions. My memory lights blinking in search of suitable answer. He was continuously looking towards me, waiting for his questions to be answered. I started, Sun! for sure they are Muslims. But it is unfortunate that while in rage we forget all the teachings and become animals, worst than animals. We forget Allah (SAW), we forget religion, we forget humanity. What we remember is that we have captured our enemy live or dead and now since he is under our thumb we are god for him, free to decide his fate. All our values, our ethics, our humanity goes down the drain. We remember only one thing, that is enmity. So we go astray, we go wild, we become wolfs, hunting hounds. We become everything less human beings.

Remember sonny!  such moments are the real test of a man, his character, his ethics, his brought up and unfortunately Libyan rebels have not up lived their humanity, their religion, their values, their ethics.

May Allah (SWT) bless us all and give us courage to live such furious moments like human beings.