Inspiring Story: A Parable of the Rose ..

A certain man planted a rose and watered it faithfully and 

before it blossomed, He examined it.  He saw the bud that would soon blossom, 

but noticed thorns upon the stem and he thought,

"How can any beautiful flower come from a plant burdened with 

so many sharp thorns? "Saddened by this thought, he neglected 

to water the rose, and before it was ready to bloom, it died.

So it is with many people.  Within every soul there is a rose. 

The God like qualities planted in us at birth 

growing amid the thorns of our faults.  

Many of us look at ourselves and see only the thorns,the defects.  

We despair, thinking that nothing good can possibly come from us. 

We neglect to water the good within us, 

and eventually it dies. 

We never realize our potential.

Some people do not see the rose within themselves; 

someone else must show it to them. 

One of the greatest gifts a person can possess is

to be able to reach past the thorns and find the rose within others.

Lesson from the Inspirational Story:

This is the characteristic of love---to look at a person and 

know their true faults.  Accepting that person into your life, 

while recognizing the nobility in their soul.  Help them to realize 

that they can overcome their faults.  If we show them the rose, 

they will conquer their thorns.  Only then will they blossom many times over.

Our duty in this world is to help others by showing them their roses 

and not their thorns.  Only then can we achieve the love 

we should feel for each other; only then can we bloom in our own garden.

Author:Unknown

Presented by Hassan Ali

Beautiful Inspiring Story: Whom To Blame

A Boy was born to a couple after eleven years of marriage. 

They were a loving couple and the boy was the gem of their eyes. 
When the boy was around two years old, 
one morning the husband saw a medicine bottle open. 

He was late for office so he asked his wife to cap the bottle 
and keep it in the cupboard. 

His wife, preoccupied in the kitchen totally forgot the matter. 

The boy saw the bottle and playfully went to the bottle 
fascinated by its colour and drank it all. 

It happened to be a poisonous medicine meant for adults in small dosages. 

When the child collapsed the mother hurried him to the hospital, 
where he died. The mother was stunned. 
She was terrified how to face her husband. 

When the distraught father came to the hospital 
and saw the dead child he looked at his wife 
and uttered just five words. 

QUESTIONS: 

1. What were the five words? 

2. What is the implication of this story? 

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ANSWER : 

The husband just said "I am with you Darling" 

The husband's totally unexpected reaction is a proactive behavior. 

The child is dead. He can never be brought back to life. 

There is no point in finding fault with the mother. 
Besides, if only he had taken time to keep the bottle away, 
this would not have happened. 

No one is to be blamed. She had also lost her only child. 

What she needed at that moment was consolation and sympathy 
from the husband. That is what he gave her. 

If everyone can look at life with this kind of perspective, 

there would be much fewer problems in the world. 

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." 

Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiven, selfishness, and fears. 

And you will find things are actually not as difficult as you think. 

MORAL OF THE STORY :

Sometimes we spend time in asking who is responsible or whom to blame,
 whether in a relationship, in a job or with the people we know. 
By this way we miss out some warmth in human relationship.

Author: Unknown

Presented by Hassan Ali

Inspiring Story: Acres of Diamonds...

There was a farmer in Africa who was happy and content. 

He was happy because he was content. He was content because he was happy.

One day a wise man came to him and told him about the glory of diamonds 

and the power that goes along with them. The wise man said, 

"If you had a diamond the size of your thumb, you could have your own city. 

If you had a diamond the size of your fist, you could probably own your own country." 

And then he went away. That night the farmer couldn't sleep. He was unhappy 

and he was discontent. He was unhappy because he was discontent and 

discontent because he was unhappy.

                            The next morning he made arrangements to sell off his farm, 

took care of his family and went in search of diamonds. 

He looked all over Africa and couldn't find any. He looked all through Europe 

and couldn't find any.  When he got to Spain, he was emotionally, 

physically and financially broke. He got so disheartened that 

he threw himself into the Barcelona River and committed suicide.

                            Back home, the person who had bought his farm was watering 

the camels at a stream that ran through the farm. Across the stream, 

the rays of the morning sun hit a stone and made it sparkle like a rainbow. 

He thought it would look good on the mantle piece. He picked up 

the stone and put it in the living room.

That afternoon the wise man came and saw the stone sparkling. 

He asked, "Is Hafiz back?" The new owner said, "No, why do you ask?" 

The wise man said, "Because that is a diamond. I recognize one when I see one." 

The man said, no, that's just a stone I picked up from the stream. Come, I'll show you.

There are many more." They went and picked some samples and sent them 

for analysis. Sure enough, the stones were diamonds. They found that 

the farm was indeed covered with acres and acres of diamonds.*

What is the moral of this story? There are five morals:

1. When our attitude is right, we realize that we are all walking on acres 

and acres of diamonds. Opportunity is always under our feet. 

We don't have to go anywhere. All we need to do is recognize it.

2. The grass on the other side always looks greener.

3. While we are dyeing the grass on the other side, there are others 

who are dyeing the grass on our side. They would be happy to trade places with us.

4. When people don't know how to recognize opportunity, 

they complain of noise when it knocks.

5. The same opportunity never knocks twice. The next one may be 

better or worse, but it is never the same one.

Author:Unknown

Presented by Hassan Ali