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Novel Company
A beautiful parable in the hadeeth compares a good friend with a perfume seller and a bad friend with a blacksmith. The least benefit one will acquire in the company of a perfume seller is that one will certainly get the beautiful scent of perfume, which will freshen the mind and heart. Likewise, a good friend will always be a means of benefit. Merely being in his company will incline the heart towards good. On the contrary the least harm in the company of …
Sweet Sixteen
The bright neon needles of the German-engineered deafening clock shone on the dressing table of my unusually ‘cold’ and eerie room. Half the night had passed without even a wink of sleep. Spending the entire day at the mall, where I ‘shopped till I dropped’… I was exhausted, weakened and drained. So badly was I ‘bushed’ that I thought that my eyes would slam shut even before my head hit the pillow.
Tossing and turning since 22:30, I tried to cool myself, pacify my brain …
Do we REALLY Care?
It was winter and a very bitter one after many years. It was not a sight that I wished for. A severe blizzard was striking up outside and I needed to take out the garbage before the garbage truck could pull up.
As I stepped out, I noticed in the distance the figure of a poor homeless woman clutching on to her baby, with nobody to take care of her. She was standing all alone at the traffic light waiting …
