..The Golden Period of the Umayyad Caliphate..

             
              If I could live in any time in history and in any country, I wish that I lived in the golden period of the Umayyad Caliphate. When Omar bin Abdulaziz was the caliph, the golden period of the Umayyad Caliphate started. He did many great reforms, for example, unpaid labor was made illegal, and state officials were excluded from entering into any business. Also, he evenly distributed pasturelands and game reserves, which were reserved for the family of the dignitaries, among the poor for the purpose of cultivation. Generally, Omar ordered the first collection of hadith, or sayings and actions of Mohammed material in an official manner, fearing that some of it might be lost, so, the first collection of hadith was in Omar’s era. Moreover, Omar approached the Caliphate unlike any other Umayyad Caliph has done before him. He was extremely pious and disdainful of worldly luxuries. In dead, although Omar's reign was very short (three years), he is very highly regarded in Muslim memory. And I still remembered his message, which is “There are five things which if a judge missed any of them, it will be a blemish on him: A judge should be discerning, deliberate, chaste, resolute, knowledgeable and inquisitive.”(1). So, I hope that our kings follow this message.

(1) From Wikipedia, Umar II, the Umayyad Caliphate.  

    

..Future job..

                When people search for job, some of them look for how much the job will pay for them whatever it is; in contrast, others look for job that is fulfilling and fun. Studies show that jobs which have high pay usually is not fulfilling and fun, but studies also show that people who have that job usually like what are they doing even if it is hard. So, when I look for job, I try to find job that have high pay. One reason why I do that is that money is motivation. If someone wants to have successful life, he or she should to do many things like have a job but not any job. The job should have a high pay in order to be motivated to success. For instance, you will need money if you want to have fun with your family, or if you want to have a nice house. And these things depend on how much money you do have. In deed, I encourage anyone who looking for a job to study the advantages and disadvantages of having this job, and what the effects that may happen when you have this job; in addition, you should know how much money that will be enough and make you feel happy.      

.."Mishal" is not "Michelle"!!..

                    What is your name? I always answer this question by saying that my name is “Mishal” not “Michelle”. Because when people heard my name, they feel confused and ask me that "Mishal" is a name for women, is not? By the way, a strange question is that are you a man or a woman? Now image that you are the opposite. If I were a woman, but absolutely I am not, what would I do? The woman and the man are not equal that is something we should to know. So being a woman is completely different than being a man. However, if I have a choice to be a woman, I would like to stay home because usually woman in my country, Saudi Arabia, stays home and does not work. In contrast, the man in Saudi Arabia works in order to take care of his wife and his family. Also, I would like to cook proficiently because in Saudi Arabia, women cook much better than men. Moreover, surly I would not like to be a pregnant. In deed, we should accept what are we because that will make us much more productive than when we think to change our gender. Therefore, the woman should to be a woman and proud, and the man should to be a man and proud.

..Dream Dinner..

        

         The Majalla, an Arabic magazine, called him the “Godfather of Renovation”. He is a Saudi Arabian liberal politician, technocrat and novelist. Undoubtedly, you are wandering and asking who is he? …Ghazi Abdulrahman AlGosaibi, the person who I just want a dinner with, was born on 3 March 1940. Let me tell you something about him; AlGosaibi began his career working as a lecturer at King Saud University in 1965. He held various positions, including associate professor, dean of the faculty of commerce and head of the department of political science. He also served as the director general of Saudi Railways Organization in 1970.  In addition, he was the minister of industry and electricity. Actually, he has had many high important positions; because of that, I would like to have a dinner with AlGosaibi. Also, actually the quality of the food is not my purpose; in fact the objective is to know how he eats, how he deals with food, and surely I mean how he will transact with each single thing. When I meet AlGosaibi, I will ask him two questions; first question is what he did to be the “Godfather of Renovation”? And if he has a chance to be alive again, what he will like to do?.