Why Muslims read Al-Quran~

Why do we read Quran, even if we can't understand a single Arabic word? This is beautiful story, please read till end and forward to all you knows...

An old American Muslim lived on a farm in the mountains of eastern Kentucky with his young grandson. Each morning Grandpa was up early sitting at the kitchen table reading his Qur'an. His grandson wanted to be just like him and tried to imitate him in every way he could.

One day the grandson asked,
"Grandpa! I try to read the Qur'an just like you but I don't understand it, and what I do understand I forget as soon as I close the book. What good does reading the Qur'an do?"

The Grandfather quietly turned from putting coal in the stove and replied,
"Take this coal basket down to the river and bring me back a basket of water."

The boy did as he was told, but all the water leaked out before he got back to the house.

The grandfather laughed and said,
"You'll have to move a little faster next time,"

He sent him back to the river with the basket to try again. This time the boy ran faster, but again the basket was empty before he returned home. Out of breath, he told his grandfather that it was impossible to carry water in a basket, and he went to get a bucket instead.

The old man said,
"I don't want a bucket of water; I want a basket of water. You're just not trying hard enough,"

He went out the door to watch the boy try again. At this point, the boy knew it was impossible, but he wanted to show his grandfather that even if he ran as fast as he could, the water would Leak out before he got back to the house. The boy again dipped the basket into river and ran hard, but when he reached his grandfather the basket was again empty.

Out of breath, he said,
"See Grandpa, it's useless!"

"So you think it is useless?"

The old man said,
"Look at the basket."

The boy looked at the basket and for the first time realized that the basket was different. It had been transformed from a dirty old coal basket and was now clean, inside and out.

"Son, that's what happens when you read the Qur'an. You might not understand or remember everything, but when you read it, you will be changed, inside and outside. That is the work of Allah in our lives."

Moral of the story : Read Al-Quran frequently as it will purify our heart. When we have pure heart, it is easy to do righteous and leave jahiliyah and badness in ourselves.

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editor : everjihad

What makes a good teacher..

Taare Zameen Par is one of Amir Khan's movies with him as the leading character (roled as a teacher) and Darsheel Safary (roled as Ishaan), a dyslexic. With a tagline 'evry child is special' i personally think that this is a great movie and a must-watch for every teacher on earth. This really really has opened my eyes that every child DOES has a talent within. It is just the matter of whether we (the adult) care to search for the special talent in each child. Briefly, this movie is about Ishaan, a dyslexic who finds school as a boring & scary place especially when there is no one at the school acknowledges him. Other than suffering a dyslexia, Ishaan is also lacking of motor coordination skills which makes it difficult for him to throw a ball into a straight line. Ishaan is always being an aim for public humiliation by his classmates as well as his teachers. The worse thing is, Ishaan's parents are of no better than his friends and teachers. They do not show any support or effort to help Ishaan but being complaining about Ishaan's disability. Ishaan's life is totally changed after the presence of his teacher (Amir Khan) who's the one finds out that Ishaan is actually dyslexic. The teacher (Amir Khan) does everything that he could think of to help Ishaan (which makes the movie very priceless & touching at the same time). The ending (of course) is where we can see Ishaan's changes & improvement which impressed everyone at the school including people who always pick on him. Even his parents were speechless over Ishaan's changes because all this while they thought that Ishaan is nobody but a burden. And the movie ends very beautifully and touches everyone's heart.
----<@ The subject matter of this movie really catches my attention (my other colleagues as well) since it's about teaching: The approaches, the techniques & strategies, the patience, the passion, the determination and the victory-feelings of being a teacher. This movie makes me realize that giving up hope on the students (especially the lower-ends) should be placed at the very last rank...and, as teachers, we should respect our students' differences because each of them got their own specialty & talent.

Happy teaching to all teachers & NEVER give up on your students!
May Allah bless, no matter where.. ;)

I Love my job...I Love my job..

Since i was very little up to my 17 years of age, i actually wasn't very sure of what did i want to do as a job. Frankly, i was not into teaching but i realized that i loved to explain things to people.Still, teacher was not my taste & flava. When i was in primary school, I love reading novels and storybooks especially of Sci-Fi & investigations in which led me to set my mind to be an author or a journalist...but then when i was in secondary school, i realized that my passion grew for science and astronomy which made me decided to be an astronomer (phew!) what an ambition!! And now here i am..a teacher. Though teaching profession was not my choice, but it is now.I am starting to love my job and i think teaching is the right & best job for me.
**I cannot be a doc because i don't think that cutting people's skin is fun.
**I cannot be an accountant/a banker because i hate numbers & maths
**I cannot be a scuba trainer because i am a hydrophobic
**I can be a teacher because i love to clear things up for people & i LOVE my job! ;)