Creating Opportunities | Making the Impossible, Possible!
Flying from Orlando to Dubai on Emirates Airlines recently, I encounter a Kuwaiti family who are seated in the same cabin as I. There is the elderly mother, in hijab, abaaya actually, who converses with me in flawless English, and her two daughters. One’s married and has two children, twins, both undisciplined terrors who give […]
Eid Qurbani Distribution – An Update: Over 77 animals for Eid Qurbani were sacrificed and the meat and skin distributed to the poor and destitute in remote Afghanistan, India, Nepal, and Tanzania. The majority of the project was completed on Monday, September 11 and balance on day two of Eid. Trapped In Nepal – Plight […]
I get mighty irked when airlines claim my flight is delayed because their incoming aircraft is tardy. I don’t care an ant’s ass if your aircraft is late. What if my car got snarled in traffic or had a flat tire and I was checking in late? Would they wait for me then? This flight […]
Eid Hajj Animal Qurbaani: As usual, CAI will facilitate the slaughter and distribution of goat / sheep meat and skin to the poor and destitute of Afghanistan, India, and Africa (various countries) this coming Eid. All orders and or commitments must be made no later than September 10 to make the ritual possible. The sacrifice […]
Was it fun? This is a question someone asks me the other day, after I complete a seven-mile run. It is a question frequently asked by many who I encounter. I guess it is out of politeness and a conversation starter perhaps, because nobody really cares a hoot if I run seven or a hundred […]
I promise my teen daughter Zainab that I’ll treat her to a snazzy vacation if she has nothing but A’s in her first year of high school. She delivers, except for two Bs. Close enough. So I swap Emirates miles with Riaz in Vancouver and we are on our way flying Air Canada, to the […]
CAI Worldwide Schools: CAI is expanding its focus on education opportunities to poor communities wherever needed, across the world. With a school almost complete in Kolda, Senegal, CAI will break ground on a girl’s school in the village of Kitty, Dykundy Province, Afghanistan late September and two CAI Trustees will be in Niamey, Niger shortly […]
My hero, the person I have admired and wanted to emulate the last eighteen years, indeed since the inception of Comfort Aid International, Abdul Sattar Edhi has died, aged 88. This holy man, may Allah bless his soul and grant him a very lofty place in Jannah, was a prime example of someone who followed […]
Zakaat Fitra Distribution – In Pictures: Your Fitra Zakaat was distributed to various poor and destitute people around the world; please click here to view photos. Kolda School Construction Progress – In Pictures: Alhamd’Allah, the 2nd floor is now in place; still targeting a November 2016 grand opening of CAI’s 28th school. Appeal For Water […]
Mullah Mchungu calls after a hiatus of many months. After the hello, how are you, as if I care formalities, he tells me he misses Orlando and HIC in particular. He would love to do a Ramadhan here, eat the greasy iftaari every day, watch Mustafa Yusufali barrage through foolendi with trays of neehari and […]
