Truth rewards

An emperor in the Far East was growing old and knew it was time to choose his successor. Instead of choosing one of his assistants or his children, he decided something different. He called young people in the kingdom together one day. He said, "It is time for me to step down and choose the next emperor. I have decided to choose one of you." The kids were shocked! But the emperor continued. "I am going to give each one of you a seed today. One very special seed. I want you to plant the seed, water it and come back here one year from today with what you have grown from this one seed. I will then judge the plants that you bring, and the one I choose will be the next emperor!" One boy named Ling was there that day and he, like the others, received a seed. He went home and excitedly told his mother the story. She helped him get a pot and planting soil, and he planted the seed and watered it carefully. Every day he would water it and watch to see if it had grown. After about three weeks, some of the other youths began to talk about their seeds and the plants that were beginning to grow. Ling kept checking his seed, but nothing ever grew. Three weeks, 4 weeks, 5 weeks went by. Still nothing. By now, others were talking about their plants but Ling didn't have a plant, and he felt like a failure. Six months went by-still nothing in Ling's pot. He just knew he had killed his seed. Everyone else had trees and tall plants, but he had nothing. Ling didn't say anything to his friends, however. He just kept waiting for his seed to grow. A year finally went by and all the youths of the kingdom brought their plants to the emperor for inspection. Ling told his mother that he wasn't going to take an empty pot. But honest about what happened, Ling felt sick to his stomach, but he knew his mother was right. He took his empty pot to the palace. When Ling arrived, he was amazed at the variety of plants grown by the other youths. They were beautiful-in all shapes and sizes. Ling put his empty pot on the floor and many of the other kinds laughed at him. A few felt sorry for him and just said, "Hey nice try." When the emperor arrived, he surveyed the room and greeted the young people. Ling just tried to hide in the back. "My, what great plants, trees and flowers you have grown," said the emperor. "Today, one of you will be appointed the next emperor!" All of a sudden, the emperor spotted Ling at the back of the room with his empty pot. He ordered his guards to bring him to the front. Ling was terrified. "The emperor knows I'm a failure! Maybe he will have me killed!" When Ling got to the front, the Emperor asked his name. "My name is Ling," he replied. All the kids were laughing and making fun of him. The emperor asked everyone to quiet down. He looked at Ling, and then announced to the crowd, "Behold your new emperor! His name is Ling!" Ling couldn't believe it. Ling couldn't even grow his seed. How could he be the new emperor? Then the emperor said, "One year ago today, I gave everyone here a seed. I told you to take the seed, plant it, water it, and bring it back to me today. But I gave you all boiled seeds which would not grow. All of you, except Ling, have brought me trees and plants and flowers. When you found that the seed would not grow, you substituted another seed for the one I gave you. Ling was the only one with the courage and honesty to bring me a pot with my seed in it. Therefore, he is the one who will be the new emperor!

Tell me

That day, i got a few complaints about my class and i decided to talk to them about it.
I began on an honest note, "Class, i have always tried to be friendly with you people. Did i ever beat you?"
"No Ma'am."
"Did I ever give you some kind of punishment?"
"No Ma'am."
"I try to give you guys all the space you need. I talk to you politely; i never scold you, never punish you, never take you to the Principal and still complaints."
I don't know if their silence also meant they were understanding, agreeing, sympathising with me but i went on and on talking of strict teachers and horrible punishments and contrasting it with my friendly approach.
To break the monotony i asked them, "You tell me what should i do with you so that you behave properly and i don't get to hear more complaints. Tell me....."
And pat came the reply, "Ma'am I tell you? Become little strict." 

Do we?

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Facts

Even when a snake has its eyes closed, it can still see through its eyelids.

Horses can run shortly after birth.

Despite the white, fluffy appearance of Polar Bears fur, it actually has black skin.

Mosquitoes can be annoying insects but did you know that it's only the female mosquito that actually bites humans.

Cats spend a large amount of time licking their coats to keep them clean.

Jellyfish don’t have brains.

How do i?

We were talking about my aquarium that day and of a certain fish that had grown big in size.

“Ma’am would you put in the river, now?”

“Maybe, send it back to the shop.”

“Get a bigger aquarium.”

“Arrey ma’m make tandoori chicken out of it and eat.”

LETTER WRITING

Dear Areeb,

                   Please come to my house in winter vacation. And please read this letter which I have written down. Please friend, come to my house in winter vacation because I have asked my parents to call you and they have permitted that you can come and I have asked my mother that she should cook Biryani, especially for you.

Yours honestly,

Saad Alam 

Wishes

          Dear cousin,

                   Please come to our place to spend your winter vacations. I have arranged your passport and visa. We will go together. We will go to see the grave (tomb) of Prophet Muhammad Sallallaho alayhi wasallam and of Hazrat Abu Bakr (ra) And Hazrat Umar (ra). We will see Cave Hira and offer salah in the mosque of our prophet sallAllaho  alayhi wasallam.

          Then we will also go to see the Kaaba.                                
          Waiting for you,                               
          Talha Noman

H.W.!!!

Dear Afreen,

                     Come to my home in winter vacation. We will enjoy very much together. I have many story books, we will read them. And also we will do our winter vacation homework together in my house.

Your cousin,

Iram

MY FAVOURITE SPOT

After reading the poem THE TAMARIND which was the favourite spot of the poet where he sat, relaxed and looked at the distant blue hills; laughed and smiled beneath its shady boughs etc we discussed our favourite places.

ABAAN shared, “My favourite place is my father’s room.” 

“Why? What do you do there?”

 “ Ma’m because there are so many many books there – Islamic and academic books. I like to read them and understand them.”

Ahem?

“Sometimes I stare at the books.”

MARIYAM HASHMI : “Ma’m my favourite place is in Allahbad, my grandparents’ house”

And where exactly?    “Umm, whole house and no ma’m it’s the roof, my favourite is roof.” 

LAIBA : “My nani’s house because there are many friends. I play very much there. we do all the things ‘together’. When it is noon, the ice-cream seller comes and then we take for everybody and enjoy very much. When it is evening then also we get some rupees and we go to buy something.”

MY EXPERIMENT

One of the teacher at IMS relates, “I was a little scared when I joined back at school after a long gap. Scared in the sense you wouldn’t understand so moving on to the first day – the awesome little kids smiled, shouted, waved and asked as well answered as to where I had been; once we all got over we got back to the lesson and however difficult it was managed to study something. 
Next was Seerah period which almost everytime sets everything alright. There is silence, they are interested, they look up for details and they, no! we recite durood shareef and may be that’s the serene part but then came home work time and since it was a day off next day I thought it would be good if they wrote something so I gave some topic for paragraph writing.

My experiment began the next day, something inside told me not to get angry, maybe their welcoming part the day before or whatever so I did not have to punish anyone who didn’t do the homework; waisey bhi I had never liked making them stand up,   holding ears- never tried even and sending out of the room is a total waste of their time and I for one do not have the heart for all this strict punishment thing but then what? Reward? Ohkay may be that would do. I thought. But then, since I had slept after fajr (very bad idea) I got late so no chocolates.

  I had just entered the classroom and lo! “Ma’m I have done my work.” “Ma’m here take it” They were four or five only. There were some with excuses, “I have written half”, “Sorry left at home” etc too but they hadn’t done it. That’s the scary part now if you can understand. But I wasn’t to get angry, no chocolates either so? Time to experiment -  I went up to the  board and wrote the names with stars, a big smiley and under the head, ‘My favourite kids today’. We moved on to learning the rule of English grammar planned for the day, they did the exercises and then someone said, “ Ma’m if I give it to you now, you will write my name also?” It was working, I said a loud yes and like always couldn't help smiling. And lo! The exercises finished pretty soon and the compositions kept coming in. Thank God!

By the way, here is something for us; have a nice day teachers :)