• Two Seas
    • as There are two seas in Palestine. One is fresh, and fish are in it. Splashes of green adorn its banks. Trees spread their branches over it and stretch out their thirsty roots to sip of its healing waters. Along its s...
    • Verse of the week
    • ek "And We have commended unto man kindness toward parents. His mother beareth him with reluctance, and bringeth him forth with reluctance, and the bearing of him and the weaning of him is thirty months, till, whe...
    • What Language Does God Speak?
    • k? Once upon a time there was a man in the Serengeti District of westernTanzania called Marwa. In the sixth grade he studied the Christian religion. At Baptism he chose the name Emmanuel which means "God is with us...
    • Verse of the week
    • ek You who believe, whenever someone tells you to make room at (any) sessions, then make room for you [elsewhere]. When it is said: "Move on ahead!" then move on up. God will raise those of you who believe,...
    • The Making of a Mother
    • ther By the time the Lord made mothers, He was into the sixth day working overtime. An Angel appeared and said "Why are you spending so much time on this one?" And the Lord answered and said, "Have yo...
    • The Closest to Us
    • The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the e...
    • The Value of Knowledge
    • That person who shall pursue the path of knowledge, God will direct him to the path of Paradise; and verily the superiority of a learned man over ...
    • THE DONKEY AND HIS PURCHASER
    • SER Aesop A man who wanted to buy a Donkey went to market, and, coming across a likely-looking beast, arranged with the owner that he should be allowed to take him home on trial to see what he was like. When he reached...
    • Kindness
    • This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our ...
    • David's Haircut
    • By: Ken Elkes When David steps out of the front door he is blinded for a moment by the white, fizzing sunlight and reaches instinctively for his dad's hand.      It's the first really warm day of ...
    • Measure of All
    • Man is the measure of all things: of those which are, that they are; of those which ...
    • THE TOYS OF PEACE
    • EACE H.H.Munro (Saki) "Harvey," said Eleanor Bope, handing her brother a cutting from a London morning paper of the 19th of March, "just read this about children's toys, please; it exactly carries ou...
    • Verse of the week
    • ek "Hasten to forgiveness from your Lord and to a garden the extensiveness of which is as the extensiveness of the heaven and the earth; it is prepared for those who believe in Allah and His apostles; that is the g...
    • Nobody Unsderdtand It
    • What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you dont understand it. You see...
    • Charity
    • Hasten with your charity, because ...
    • THE ROSE OF DIXIE
    • OFDIXIE" By: O'Henry When The Rose of Dixie magazine was started by a stock company in Toombs City, Georgia, there was never but one candidate for its chief editorial position in the minds of its owners. Col. ...
    • Verse of the week
    • eek "Praise be to Allah, the Creator of the heavens and the earth, Who appointeth the angels messengers having wings two, three and four. He multiplieth in creation what He will. Lo! Allah is Able to do all things...
    • Old and New
    • When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the ...
    • Italian proverbs
    • rbs Matrimoni e viscuvati, di lu celu su mannati. (Sicilian proverb) English translation: Weddings and spiritual matters are heaven sent. Meglio essere invidiati che compiatiti. English translation: Better to be envied th...
    • THE REPENTANT SINNER
    • ER Leo Tolstoy 'And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy Kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.' -- Luke xxiii. 42, 43 . There was onc...
    • Proverbs of Ireland
    • land Every patient is a doctor after his cure. Neither give cherries to pigs nor advice to a fool. Soft words butter no parsnips but they won't harden the heart of the cabbage either. You'll never plow a field by turnin...
    • The Philosopher’s Stone
    • one Hans Christian Andersen Far away towards the east, in India, which seemed in those days the world’s end, stood the Tree of the Sun; a noble tree, such as we have never seen, and perhaps never may see. The summit of t...
    • Verse of the week
    • eek "And (remember) when thy Lord brought forth from the Children of Adam, from their reins, their seed, and made them testify of themselves, (saying): Am I not your Lord? They said: Yea, verily. We testify."...
    • Human Individual
    • Everyone knows on any given day that there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that ...
    • Hadith of the week
    • eek "O men! Be easy on yourselves, and do not distress yourselves by raising your voices, verily you do not call to One deaf or absent, but verily to One who heareth and seeth; and He is with you; and He to whom y...
    • WHERE LOVE IS, GOD IS
    • IS IN a certain town there lived a cobbler, Martin Avdéiteh by name. He had a tiny room in a basement, the one window of which looked out on to the street. Through it one could only see the feet of those who passed by,...
    • Afghan Proverbs
    • verbs -The first day you meet, you are friends the next day you meet, you are brothers. [Friendship grows into brotherhood.] -A real friend is one who takes the hand of his friend intime of distress and helplessness. [A ...
    • A Little Knowledge Is a Dangerous Thing
    • hing African Cultural Stories During the colonial period in Kenya there were three Kikuyu men Kioi, Githogori and Kaminju who thought that they knew everything. They decided to go to adult education classes to learn...
    • Verse of the week
    • eek "And whatsoever ye have been given is a comfort of the life of the world and an ornament thereof; and that which Allah hath is better and more lasting. Have ye then no sense?" Qur'an 28:60 ...
    • The Wild Swans
    • ns Hans Christian Andersen FAR away in the land to which the swallows fly when it is winter, dwelt a king who had eleven sons, and one daughter, named Eliza. The eleven brothers were princes, and each went to school with a...
    • Positive Idea
    • Go out and change the world. The more you study, the more you should have-- A GOAL you should be pursuing; A DREAM your should be launching; A PLAN you should be executing; A PROJECT you should be start...
    • The Tongue-Cut Sparrow
    • rrow Folktales from Japan Once upon a time there lived an old man and an old woman. The old man, who had a kind heart, kept a young sparrow, which he tenderly nurtured. But the dame was a cross-grained old thing; ...