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Winning begins with giving

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Giving has always brought out the best in people. No one in the history has become a poor after helping or supporting the society. James Bender, in his book How to Talk Well(New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1994) relates the story of a farmer who grew award-winning corn. Each year he entered his corn in the state fair where it won a blue ribbon. One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors. "How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?" the reporter asked. "Why sir," said the farmer, "didn't you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I mu

Rewards are multiplied in these 10 days of Dhul-Hijjah

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Welcome to the month of Dhul-Hijjah 1439H Praise be to Allah Who has created Time and has made some times like months or days and nights better than others, when rewards are multiplied many times, as a mercy towards His slaves. Imagine, you find a SALE with crazy price of your favorite stuff in a store, and you know that it rarely happens. But you also know that it lasts only for an hour while the store limits the number of the stuff you've been looking for. What are you gonna do? It's very little chance that you're gonna ignore that sale, isn't it? So what are we gonna do knowing that we are entering the month of Dhul-Hijjah, one of four sacred months in islam in which Rewards are multiplied for people who collect good deeds at the moment? Absolutely as a Muslim we would make sure that we don't miss any of these important occasion, because time is passing quickly. And among the special seasons of worship are the first ten days of Dhul-Hijjah, whic