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| Nice story: Mohammed Ali and his daughters |
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| olive_tree |
| 03/20/04 at 20:40:40 |
| [slm] Here is a nice story that was in the Letters page of a Bahrain newspaper. (There was only the writer's first name, so I did not know where to go to get her permission for reprinting on this board... so I hope it is ok to post it) THE following incident took place when Mohammad Ali's daughters arrived at his home wearing clothes that were not modest. Here is the story as told by one of his daughters: "When we finally arrived, the chauffeur escorted my younger sister, Laila, and me up to my father's suite. As usual, he was hiding behind the door waiting to scare us. We exchanged many hugs and kisses as we could possibly give in one day. My father took a good look at us. Then he sat me down on his lap and said something that I will never forget. He looked me straight in the eyes and said, "Hana, everything that God made valuable in the world is covered and hard to get to. Where do you find diamonds? Deep down in the ground, covered and protected. Where do you find pearls? Deep down at the bottom of the ocean, covered up and protected in a beautiful shell. Where do you find gold? Way down in the mine, covered over with layers and layers of rock. You've got to work hard to get to them." He looked at me with serious eyes. "Your body is sacred. You're far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too." [slm] :-) |
| Re: Nice story: Mohammed Ali and his daughters |
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| yumna |
| 03/22/04 at 14:20:25 |
| [slm]sister that seems like a wonderful story is it like a complete story or something ? is it availabe on boatd i would really like 2 read it :-) |
| Re: Nice story: Mohammed Ali and his daughters |
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| olive_tree |
| 03/27/04 at 19:14:14 |
| [slm] Yes - it is pretty cool... :) I had actually read in from an online newspaper, but since you had requested the original source, I started searching on the web. :-[ On one site I found the source of this article. It is taken from a book called "More Than A Hero: Muhammad Ali's Life Lessons Through His Daughter's Eyes." Looks to be an interesting book... [slm] :-) |
| Re: Nice story: Mohammed Ali and his daughters |
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| yumna |
| 04/02/04 at 11:23:29 |
| thank u sister |
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