The boy believes his heart is going to stop; he puts his head down and prays this prayer, "OH ALLAH, this is an emergency! I need help now! Five minutes from now I'm dead meat."

He looks up from his prayer and here comes the teacher with a look in her eyes that says he has been discovered. As the teacher is walking toward him, a classmate named AYESHA is carrying a goldfish bowl that is filled with water. AYESHA trips in front of the teacher and inexplicably dumps the bowl of water in the boy's lap.

The boy pretends to be angry, but all the while is; saying to himself, "Thank you, ALLAH Thank you, ALLAH"

Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of ridicule, the boy is the object of sympathy. The teacher rushes him downstairs and gives him gym shorts to put on while his pants dry out. All the other children are on their hands and knees cleaning up around his desk. The sympathy is wonderful. But as life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his has been transferred to someone else - AYESHA.

She tries to help, but they tell her to get out. You've done enough, you klutz!"

Finally, at the end of the day, as they are waiting for the bus, the boy walks over to AYESHA and whispers,

"You did that on purpose, didn't you?" AYESHA whispers back, "I wet my pants once too."

May ALLAH help us see the opportunities that are always around us to do good.

Remember.....Just going to MOSQUE doesn't make you a MUSLIM any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.

Each and everyone one of us are going through tough times right now, but ALLAH is getting ready to bless you in a way that only He can. Keep the faith!!!

At least 10 Pakistani troops have been killed and nine wounded after a missile fired from Afghanistan hit their border post. The incident came after Pakistani paramilitary troops in the Mohmand tribal region clashed with Afghan forces in an area fought over by the two countries.

A Palestinian girl has been killed by a shell fired from an Israeli tank in the south of the Gaza Strip. Hadel Alfnere was killed and two members of her family were wounded by the tank round when it hit their home east of the town of Khan Younis.

At least 28 people have been killed after a Sudan Airways passenger jet veered off the runway on landing at Khartoum international airport and burst into flames. Khartoum airport's head of medical services, Major-General Mohamed Osman Mahjoub, said authorities had so far established there were 123 survivors but 66 people were unaccounted for.

Higher electricity prices could give Eskom more leeway to develop energy efficiency projects, the utility said in Johannesburg today at an energy efficiency conference organised by the French Embassy.

A section of Gautrain is slated to come into operation about two weeks ahead of the 2010 Soccer World Cup kick-off, according to the latest Gautrain Rapid Rail Link update issued today.

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ABSTINENCE
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A learned man who is not abstinent resembles a torchbearer who guides others but does not guide himself.

POOR MAN!!!
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It was a terrible night, blowing cold and snow in a most frightful manner. The streets were deserted and the local baker was just about to close up shop when a little, old man slipped through the door. He carried an umbrella, blown inside out, and was bundled in two sweaters and a thick coat. But even so he still looked wet, freezing, and bedraggled.

As he unwound his scarf he said to the baker, "May I have two poppy seed bagels to go, please?"
The baker said in astonishment, "Two bagels? Nothing more?"

"That's right," answered the little man. "One for me and one for Sherry."

"And who is Sherry, your wife?" asked the baker.

"What did you think," snapped the little man, "that my mother would send me out on a night like this?"