metro cip

Metro CIP Oh well people have come to lament on how others don't wanna donate, or will tend to donate to people of the same race. I don't feel I have anything to add to that. I think what's more important is that I shed some light on 2 completely different points that I have encountered during my brief spell at woodlands metro today. Actually, to say that it was brief was a major understatement. 1. This was superbly enriching. A man in his thirties, maybe even forties, but I suppose the richness of the religion makes him look forever young. He started first by generously donating a healthy sum. Then i was stupid to tell him that he could participate in the lucky draw and get a booklet of vouchers and what not. I should have read the situation better. He clearly was not there to get into some lucky draw. He doesn't believe in luck at all. It must all be achieved thru work. Not just work i suppose, but hard work! He went on to start telling us what is Samawi, that is religion that comes truly from God. There are three: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The religions arrived on Earth in that order. The other forms of "religion" are actually not actually a religion, as studied by western scholars, not just islamic scholars. They are a form of Ideology (Buddhism, Taoism) and Mythology (Hinduism). Intellectual people of all races have even led their lives with the Ideology and Mythology. He went on to say that we are bestowed with knowledge, but that is the easy part. In this current chapter in our lives, we should strive to learn as much knowledge as possible. Understand the Quran! Thats what even my religious teacher says. Then after acquiring knowledge, what we must seek out to do with the intellectual that we have is to develop. That is the ultimate form of learning, he says. Develop, so that you become closer to God and you help mankind out. For the betterment of humanity. He says that only discovery will lead to the betterment of humanity, but invention and innovation (tweaking of systems by mankind), will not necessarily lead to the betterment of humanity, in fact it is almost something of a self-destructing mechanism. For Muslims, he had this to say just before he left. He was a bit impressed that we are all involved in community service. But he says when there is oppurtunity, you don't care who you help, whatever the race or religion, if you can help, then you should help. But when it comes to priority, of course, you should help out your Muslim brothers and sisters first. See the difference between Oppurtunity and Priority? And before that, the difference between Knowledge and Development? Priceless :) No amount of CIP hours would make up for this i tell you. The man salam us, that is he shook hands lik all Muslims do with us, and asked for our names (Iylia and mine). Then immediately he told us the meaning of our names. Mine is correct :) 2. The people who were supposed to come for the second shift turned up really late. Its like Iylia, Hafiz and me had to wait a whopping 2hours for one person to come. Our shift ended at 4pm, but because of this, we couldn't be released because of the agreement with RJ and so had to wait til the next person turned up. Thanks alot and merry xmas you hos.