For children, - Immigrant Stories: One Extra Bedroom(Muslim Immigration to Canada)

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As the dream of most parents I had acquired a MBBS degree in India and passed USMLE (Canadian Residency Program) to enter Canada, the land of braves and opportunity. When I arrived in the Canada after my Immigration, it was as if a dream had come true. Here in Canada at last I was in the place where I wanted to be. I decided I would be staying in Canada for about Five years in which time I would have earned enough money to settle down in India.
My father was a government employee and after his retirement, the only asset he could acquire was a decent one bedroom flat. I wanted to do some thing more than him. I started feeling homesick and lonely as the time passed in Canada. I used to call home in India and speak to my parents every week using cheap international phone cards.
Two years passed, two years of Burgers at McDonald's and chicken legs in KFC and discos and 2 years watching the foreign exchange rate getting happy whenever the Rupee value went down. Finally I decided to get married. Told my parents that I have only 10 days of holidays and everything must be done within these 10 days. I got my ticket booked in the cheapest flight. Was jubilant as I was actually enjoying shopping for gifts for all my relatives and friends back home in India.
If I miss anyone then there will be talks. After reaching home in India, I spent one week going through all the photographs of girls and as the time was getting shorter I was forced to select one candidate. In-laws told me, to my surprise, that I would have to get married in 2-3 days, as I will not get anymore holidays soon and they cannot wait for long.
After the marriage, it was time to return back to Canada, after giving some money to my parents and telling the neighbors to look after them, we (I was lucky and managed to get the visa of my wife early) returned to Canada.
My wife enjoyed this country Canada for about two months and then she started feeling lonely. The frequency of calling India increased to twice in a week sometimes 3 times a week as she also has to call her parents. Our savings started diminishing. After two more years we started to have kids.
Two lovely kids, a boy and a girl, were gifted to us by the Almighty Allah. Every time I spoke to my parents, they asked me to come to India so that they can see their grand children. Every year I decide to go to India.
But part work, part monetary conditions prevented it. Years went by and visiting India was a distant dream. Then suddenly one day I got a message that my parents were seriously sick. I tried but I couldn't get any holidays and was stuck up in the procedures and thus could not go to India. The next message I got was my parents were passed away and as there was no one to do the last rites the society members had done whatever they could. I was depressed. My parents passed away without seeing their grand children.
After couple more years passed away, much to my children's dislike (by now nearly cocos) and my wife's joy we returned to India to settle down. I started to look for a suitable property, but to my dismay my savings were short and the property prices had gone up during all these years. I had to return to Canada. My wife refused to come back with me and my children refused to stay in India. My 2 children and I returned to Canada after promising my wife I would be back for good after two years.
Time passed by, my daughter decided to get married to a French and my son was happy living in Montreal. I decided that enough is enough and wound-up every thing and returned to India. I had just enough money to buy a decent Two-bed room flat in a well-developed locality. Now I am sixty years old and the only time I go out of the flat is for the routine visit to the nearby place of worship. My faithful wife has also left me and gone to the holy abode.
Sometimes I wondered was it worth all this? My father, even after staying in India, had a house to his name and I too have the same, nothing more.
I lost my parents and children for just ONE EXTRA BEDROOM. Looking out from the window I see a lot of children dancing. This damned cable TV has spoiled our new generation and these children are losing their values and culture because of it. I get occasional cards from my children asking I am alright.
Well at least they remember me. Now perhaps after I die it will be the neighbors again who will be performing my last rites, may Almighty Allah Bless them.
But the question still remains 'was all this worth it?'
I am still searching for an answer....
There are no unanswered prayers... At times the answer is NO.

- PUBLISHERNajimudeeN M

General Articles, - Various extraordinarily complex and flawless processes take place at the most amazing speeds in every square millimeter of the body in just a few seconds. These processes continue uninterrupted every second, with every breath we take, even as we sleep, until the end of our lives. These events that take place, through our Lord’s sublime might, do so uninterruptedly EVERY SECOND IN EVERY ONE of the 100 trillion cells in the bodies of ALL THE 7 billion people currently living on Earth. PROTEIN • Except for reproductive and blood cells, all the cells in the body manufacture some 2000 proteins every second. This process takes place in EACH ONE of the 100 TRILLION CELLS OF ALL THE 7 billion people on Earth. • The 100 trillion cells in every adult human body form protein chains by flawlessly organizing some 150,000,000,000,000,000, 000 (150 quintillion) amino acids. • A ribosome can add 20 amino acids per second to a protein chain. Protein synthesis takes place in an uninterrupted manner every second in every cell of the 7 billion people on Earth. • An average 50 million cells form in the body every second, while another 50 million die. Two million of these are blood cells. • Enough DNA to fill a library consisting of 100 volumes, containing a million pages and 3 billion letters, is copied as every cell divides. This wondrous process of division takes place with the same perfection in the cells of everyone in the world. THE BRAIN • 10 16 processes take place in the brain every second. • A single nerve cell can carry more than 200,000 pieces of information at the same time every second. • There are around 10 billion nerve cells in the brain, communications between which is established by 100 trillion connections. • Every brain cell transmits 300 currents a second. And every nerve cell discharges its responsibility in 1 millisecond (one thousandth of a second). • The brain processes 750 million signals, from inside and outside the body, every second. • Four billion pieces of information are exchanged between the two halves of the brain every second. • All these processes TAKE PLACE EVERY SECOND IN EVERY ONE OF THE 10 BILLION NERVE CELLS IN THE BRAINS OF ALL THE 7 BILLION PEOPLE ON EARTH. • The human eye is able to send 10 million bits of information per second. Everyone in the world possesses this extraordinary capacity. ATP • In lifting a glass, the muscle expends some 10 20 energy molecules (ATP). They also manufacture even more than this. • 10 million energy molecules (ATP) are constantly manufactured every second in every one of the 100 trillion cells of 7 billion people in the world. • The white blood cells in the veins subject 10 billion cells to a health check in 2 seconds. That health check is carried out in everyone who has ever lived or is living now. • The heart circulates all the blood in the body in 60 seconds. It does this all the time, in all the 7 billion people alive today. • Five hundred different chemical processes are carried out in a single liver cell every second. Every liver cell IN ALL THE 7 BILLION PEOPLE ON EARTH knows these 500 different tasks and carried them all out flawlessly. • Whenever food enters the body, microscopic hairs on the cells in the small intestine reject those parts of the food that are not useful. The hairs in question do this in a perfectly organized manner in everyone on Earth every second. BREATHING • In order to breathe, planning is carried out in a region the size of a lentil in the brain stem, every second: - A first group of cells gives the command for air to be taken in. - A second group of cells determines the speed and course of respiration by halting the activity of the first group with a signal. - A third group of cells goes into action when we need to breathe at a high rate and accelerates respiration by sending a signal to the abdomen muscles. • Every time we breathe more than 300 million sacs in the lungs take air in by opening and closing. These cells and sacs perform the same function, without exception, every 3 seconds in all 7 BILLION HUMAN BEINGS. • Thousands of hormones in the body send reports to specific cells in a single second. Each hormone makes decisions, communicates with the cells, produces the secretions the body needs, determines the right level and timing of this, and arranges how long these secretions should last. Millions of hormones in the bodies of all the 7 billion people on Earth carry out the same processes in milliseconds. • Some 100 billion processes will have taken place in your eyes in the time it takes to read this sentence. These take place in a little as a tenth of a second, and are carried out in the eye cells of everyone in the world. • Harmful bacteria traveling from the intestines to the liver are digested and neutralized by special cells in less than 0.01 (one one hundredth) of a second. These are at work in all 7 billion people in the world. • There are 10 billion capillary vessels in the human body. The erythrocytes that travel along these vessels carry oxygen to the cells. An erythrocyte only remains in a capillary vessel for between 1 and 3 seconds, and then heads for the heart. During that time it gives oxygen to the tissues and takes away carbon dioxide. This distribution process takes place within this flawless system in all the 7 billion people in the world. As you read these words, billions of cells in your brain are working to understand what you read, and controlling the actions of your muscles and how you breathe. The brain is aware of the protein production in your cells, the transportation of oxygen to the cells by erythrocytes, the images that enter your eye, sounds that reach your ear, what is happening in your stomach and liver, the watch strapped to your arm and everything. It responds to and regulates all of these every second. This magnificent system in the body has worked flawlessly and immaculately in everyone who has ever lived, and is still working so today. There is no doubt that the Creator of this magnificent system in the body is our Almighty Lord Allah and that Almighty Allah has knowledge and control of this system at every stage and every moment. Our Lord says in one verse that: I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed satan The keys of the Unseen are in His possession. No one knows them but Him. He knows everything in the land and sea. No leaf falls without His knowing it. There is no seed in the darkness of the earth, and nothing moist or dry which is not in a Clear Book. (Surat al-An’am, 59)

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Surat al-Baqara, 200-202:
... There are some people who say, ‘Our Lord, give us good in thisworld.’ They will have no share in theHereafter.
And there are others who say, ‘ OUR LORD, GIVE US GOOD IN THIS WORLD, AND GOOD IN THE HEREAFTER, AND SAFEGUARD US FROM THE PUNISHMENT OF THE FIRE.’ They will have a good share from what they have earned. Allah is swift at reckoning.
Surat al-Baqara, 285:
The Messenger believes in what has been sent down to him from his Lord, and so do the the believers. Each one believes in Allah and His angels and His Books and His Messengers. WE DO NOT DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN ANY OF HIS MESSENGERS. THEY SAY, ‘WE HEAR AND WE OBEY. FORGIVE US, OUR LORD! YOU ARE OUR JOURNEY’S END.’
Surat al-Baqara, 286:
Allah does not impose on any self any more than it can stand. For it is what it has earned; against it, what it has merited. OUR LORD, DO NOT TAKE US TO TASK IF WE FORGET OR MAKE A MISTAKE! OUR LORD, DO NOT PLACE ON US A LOAD LIKE THE ONE YOU PLACED ON THOSE BEFORE US! OUR LORD, DO NOT PLACE ON US A LOAD WE HAVE NOT THE STRENGTH TO BEAR! AND PARDON US; AND FORGIVE US; AND HAVE MERCY ON US. YOU ARE OUR MASTER , SO HELP US AGAINST THE UNBELIEVERS.
Surah Al ‘Imran, 8:
‘OUR LORD, DO NOT MAKE OUR HEARTS SWERVE ASIDE AFTER YOU HAVE GUIDED US. AND GIVE US MERCY FROM YOU. YOU ARE THE EVER-GIVING.
Surah Al ‘Imran, 9:
OUR LORD, YOU ARE THE GATHERER OF MANKIND TO A DAY OF WHICH THERE IS NO DOUBT. ALLAH WILL NOT BREAK HIS PROMISE.’
Surah Al ‘Imran, 16:
Those who say, ‘OUR LORD, WE BELIEVE, SO FORGIVE US OUR WRONG ACTIONS AND SAFEGUARD US FROM THE PUNISHMENT OF THE FIRE.’
Surah Al ‘Imran, 147:
All they said was, ‘OUR LORD, FORGIVE US OUR WRONG ACTIONS AND ANY EXCESSES WE WENT TO IN WHAT WE DID AND MAKE OUR FEET FIRM AND HELP US AGAINST UNBELIEVERS.’
Surah Al ‘Imran, 191:
Those who remember Allah, standing, sitting and lying on their sides, and reflect on the creation of the heavens and the Earth: ‘OUR LORD, YOU HAVE NOT CREATED THIS FOR NOTHING. GLORY BE TO YOU! SO SAFEGUARD US FROM THE PUNISHMENT OF THE FIRE.’
Surah Al ‘Imran, 192:
OUR LORD, THOSE YOU CAST INTO THE FIRE, YOU HAVE INDEED DISGRACED. THE WRONGDOERS WILL HAVE NO HELPERS.
Surah Al ‘Imran, 193:
OUR LORD, WE HEARD A CALLER CALLING US TO FAITH: “BELIEVE IN YOUR LORD!” AND WE BELIEVED. OUR LORD, FORGIVE US OUR WRONG ACTIONS, ERASE OUR BAD ACTIONS FROM US AND TAKE US BACK TO YOU WITH THOSE WHO ARE TRULY GOOD.
Surah Al ‘Imran, 194:
OUR LORD, GIVE US WHAT YOU PROMISED US THROUGH YOUR MESSENGERS, AND DO NOT DISGRACE US ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION. YOU DO NOT BREAK YOUR PROMISE.’
Surat al-Ma’ida, 83:
When they listen to what has been sent down to the Messenger, you see their eyes overflowing with tears because of what they recognise of the truth. They say, ‘OUR LORD, WE BELIEVE! SO WRITE US DOWN AMONG THE WITNESSES.’
Surat al-A‘raf, 47:
When they turn their eyes towards the Companions of the Fire, they will say, ‘OUR LORD, DO NOT PLACE US WITH THE PEOPLE OF THE WRONGDOERS!’
Surah Yunus, 85:
They said, ‘WE HAVE PUT OUR TRUST IN ALLAH. OUR LORD, DO NOT MAKE US A TARGET FOR THIS WRONGDOING PEOPLE.
Surah Yunus, 86:
‘AND RESCUE US, BY YOUR MERCY, FROM THE UNBELIEVERS!’
Surat al-Isra’, 107:
Say: ‘Believe in it or do not believe in it.’ Certainly, when it is recited to them, those who were given knowledge before it fall on their faces in prostration,
Surat al-Isra’, 108:
Saying, ‘GLORY BE TO OUR LORD! THE PROMISE OF OUR LORD IS TRULY FULFILLED!’
Surat al-Kahf, 10:
When the young men took refuge in the cave and said, ‘OUR LORD, GIVE US MERCY DIRECTLY FROM YOU AND OPEN THE WAY FOR US TO RIGHT GUIDANCE IN OUR SITUATION.’
Surat al-Kahf, 23-24:
Never say about anything, ‘I am doing that tomorrow,’ without adding ‘ IF ALLAH WILLS .’ Remember your Lord when you forget, and say, ‘ HOPEFULLY MY LORD WILL GUIDE ME TO SOMETHING CLOSER TO RIGHT GUIDANCE THAN THIS .’
Surat al-Muminun, 109-110:
There was a group of My servants who said, “OUR LORD, WE BELIEVE, SO FORGIVE US AND HAVE MERCY ON US. YOU ARE THE BEST OF THE MERCIFUL.” But you made a mockery of them so that they made you forget to remember Me while you were laughing at them.
Surat al-Muminun, 118:
Say: ‘MY LORD, FORGIVE AND BE MERCIFUL! YOU ARE THE BEST OF THE MERCIFUL.’
Surat an-Nur, 47:
They say, ‘WE BELIEVE IN ALLAH AND IN THE MESSENGER AND WE OBEY.’ Then after that a group of them turn away. Such people are not believers.
Surat al-Furqan, 74:
Those who say, ‘OUR LORD, GIVE US JOY IN OUR WIVES AND CHILDREN AND MAKE US A GOOD EXAMPLE FOR THOSE WHO RESPECT AND FEAR ALLAH’
Surat al-Furqan, 65:
Those who say, ‘OUR LORD, AVERT FROM US THE PUNISHMENT OF HELL, ITS PUNISHMENT IS INESCAPABLE PAIN.’
Surat az-Zukhruf, 12-14:
It is He Who created all the species and gave you ships and livestock for you to ride, so that you might sit firmly on their backs and remember your Lord’s blessing while you are seated on them, saying ,‘GLORY BE TO HIM WHO HAS SUBJECTED THIS TO US.WE COULD NEVER HAVE DONE IT BY OURSELVES. INDEED WE ARE RETURNING TO OUR LORD!’
Surat al-Hashr, 10:
Those who have come after them say, ‘OUR LORD, FORGIVE US AND OUR BROTHERS WHO PRECEDED US IN FAITH AND DO NOT PUT ANY ANCOUR IN OUR HEARTS TOWARDS THOSE WHO BELIEVE.OUR LORD, YOU ARE ALL-GENTLE, MOST MERCIFUL.’
Surat at-Tahrim, 8:
You who believe! Repent to Allah. It may be that your Lord will erase your bad actions from you and admit you into Gardens with rivers flowing under them on the Day when Allah will not disgrace the Prophet and those who believed along with him.Their light will stream out ahead of them and on their right.They will say, ‘OUR LORD, PERFECT OUR LIGHT FOR US AND FORGIVE US! YOU HAVE POWER OVER ALL THINGS.’
Surat al-Falaq, 1-5:
Say: “ I SEEK REFUGE WITH THE LORD OF DAYBREAK,
FROM THE EVIL OF WHAT HE HAS CREATED
AND FROM THE EVIL OF THE DARKNESS WHEN IT GATHERS
AND FROM THE EVIL OF WOMEN WHO BLOW ON KNOTS
AND FROM THE EVIL OF AN ENVIER WHEN HE ENVIES. ”

- PUBLISHERNajimudeeN M

General Articles, - Some of the processes that take place within the body in a matter of seconds

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Some of the processes that take place within the body in a matter of seconds

- PUBLISHERNajimudeeN M