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Barcelona and Real Madrid are two of the most powerful teams in the world. They had the right to win that tournament. No one was nominated for the championship

Slowly, they crawled. Lamine Yamal, the nineteen-year-old striker, did his best to lead his team to that victory. Other players were depending on their previous achievements

They beat France, 2/0. Austria 3/0. Their neighboring country, Portugal, 1/0. The Belgian team managed to score a goal in their net

In the quarter-final, Yamal's colle

Dear friends, let's give a great deal of applause to the hero,  Mr. Josef Essberger. This man has fought and is still fighting to keep this site going. For more than twenty years, Mr. Essberger has done his best to give us an educational, creative, and enjoyable website.  

He really deserves more than one clap. We really respect your high spirit and the way you handled this website. Millions of people learned how to speak English, and many of them made friends with one another. Even some of them

Nabi Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said, " He who fasts in Ramadan and follows that by six days of Shawal, he is as if fasts the whole year". In Islam, if you do one good thing, you will be rewarded tenfold. Therefore, Ramadan is thirty days multiplied by ten, which makes three hundred days.

So, if you add the six days (of course, multiplied by ten), they make sixty days added to three hundred days. The total is 360 days. It is exactly one year. For more information about

There was a baker who used to sell bread. A basket was full of hot bread for the poor. The poor used to stand in line and take their share from the baker. Another baker was very angry about this and made a big fuss, going so far as to sue his neighbor in court, claiming that the neighbor's action had caused most of his customers to switch to him.
The judge told him that he is free to do with his bread. Sell them or give them for free. His complaint was dismissed, and he thought of a plan to se

Today is the first day of Zulhijjah 1446H, corresponding to 28 May 2025. A week from now, then the beginning of the pilgrimage (Hajj) 

 It is recommended to fast on these days of the month until the ninth, which is the day of Arafa, and then Eid would come on the tenth day.

Any work on these days is better than any other day of the year. Pilgrimage (Hajj) is the fifth pillar of Islam. It is an Islamic gathering of Muslims from all over the world.

They come to Mecca on those specific days to perfor

Ramadan is the month of forgiveness. Before six months, people used to wish to be present in the coming Ramadan. They knew the benefit and gain from the master of the Arabic months. Many good things come on their way.

They tried to behave and be honest to God, doing the previous worship to their God, from fasting, praying, and concentrating on how to fast and paying zakat to other poor Muslims.

 In the past, there were no air conditions like today, so when the month comes in Summer, people used t

The showing pen writes showy things. He always makes ostentation gestures to make others admire him.

The hypocritical pen. He might be a brother or a cousin to the showy pen. He shows moral beliefs but behaves dishonestly. His face shows something different from his inner.

The forgetful pen. His main character is forgetfulness. The angry pen. He is always in a bad mood and hates whatever comes across him. The forgiving pen. The kind pen.

The loving pen. This kind of pen is prevalent and admired by

Today is the second day of the new Hijira calendar, 1446. It is named Hijra (immigration ) because Prophet Muhammad "peace and blessings of Allah be upon him" immigrated from Mecca to Madinah on the 12^th  of  Rabee Al-awal, corresponding to the twenty-first of September 622.  This was considered as a reference for the beginning of the Islamic year or the lunar year. It depends on the moon cycle to determine the Arabic calendar. It is twelve months and consists of either 354 or 355 days. Each mo

About five days to go and we are in Hajj. What is Hajj? Hajj (pilgrimage) is the fifth pillar of Islam. People come from all over the world to perform Hajj in Mecca. They start on the eighth day of the month of Zulhijjah which is called Irrigation Day. At dawn they leave Mecca for the mountain of mercy, to stand for the Arafa Day. It is the great day of Hajj. People stand there and ask Allah for forgiveness.

Before sunset, they move to Muzdalifa, another ritual place of Hajj. They collect stones

One or two days remain, and we will be expecting a favorite guest. Guess who it is? Ramadan, yes, it is Ramadan. It is one of the five pilars of Islam. We do not eat during the day until sunset. Of course, this is good  for our digestive system, at least during the day. 

For eleven months, day and night, it is just working and digesting our food so as we can feed our bodies. This process continues but in Ramadan, it stops completely during the day which gives it a break. It can be a period for o

Many people left us in 2023. My niece Mariam. She was the mother of Al-Hilal Sudanese team player, the late Walideen. My father-in-law, Ali Farrat. They were not as famous as Hollywood stars, such as Raquel Welch, Tina Turner, Jim Brown, David MacCallum, Lisa Marley, Mathew Perry, and the lovely, Gina Lollobrigida.

Dimitry Utkin the leader of the Wagner group died in a plane crash, and many others that the space is not enough to mention all of them.

We do not mention the earthquake that hit Agadi

I am starting my blog with a question, and I shall end it with a question too. Is peace far from our reach? For over fifty years we have just suffered and heard daily news of wars everywhere. Some spots are boiling and others are less severe.

Since the beginning of this world, mankind killed each other. They never stopped doing it. Most of the regions of the so-called third world are killing each other.

look at the middle east, Palestine, and Israel. Open the news and our country, Sudan is always

The pilgrims ended their Hajj on the third day at Mina. They would start to perform the goodbye Tawaf (surrounding the Kaaba) and go back home. Some of them go to Madina, others go to the different cities in Saudi Arabia. For more details, please visit my page about Hajj. Happy new year to all. Thank you.

Sara and Dina are sisters. Sara is two years older than Dina. Their parents died when they were very young. They left a big house, an elegant car, and a huge amount of money in the bank for them.  They were wise at the beginning and they agreed to live in the house and sell that car and buy two for them. Sara thought that the car was part of their parents hereditary. They were supposed to keep it but later on she changed her mind for both of them to have a car for each of them.

Dina's boyfriend

Ramadan flight announces the departure of its flight number 1443H. to Rayan door. Passengers on this flight are kindly requested to fasten their piety belts and refrain from anything that is illegal.

The duration of this flight is approximately twenty nine to thirty days. Eating and drinking are forbidden during the day time from sunrise until sunset. At sunset, you can eat and drink.

Praying or any other deed will be rewarded twice and every work for the sake of Allah will be rewarded in great q

I was in love with someone. I went away for a while, when I came back she had been engaged to another man. I went through deep sorrow. Of course, the wheel of life must go and you must get used to that. I do not know how to express myself properly but those lines might reflect something of it. Thanks in advance for your point of view:

Someone help me!

Life is hard,

Your words are harder.

I pretend not to feel,

Under the daily tears,

The anguish is clear.

After you,

I remain in grief.

You are the oppre

What are we going to do?  Sometimes it seems to me that the amount of food and water is not enough for us. When a group of people has absolute power without effective constitutional limitations. Wars are everywhere. Conflicts are all over the world. take a look at the map of the world, you will find many hot or red spots.

The princes of war are giving us no chance at all. They do not want to step down and give us a break as if they breathe the smoke that is coming from the barrels of their guns

What is democracy? It is a control of an organization or a group by the majority of its members. Indeed it is a system of government by the whole people or the eligible ones of the country. It usually happens in elections. Typically, through elected representatives.

Our people are out in the streets for more than four weeks in a peaceful demonstration demanding democracy.  They did not want military rule. They wanted a civilian one. Our people ousted the previous dictator from power and a transi

In life, we find strange things. Along the way, we meet people. Good ones and bad ones, too. Our thoughts and beliefs are made about them. Our judgment is formed about them, and it is not necessarily based on fact or knowledge. Anger and hostility may arise later. The most important thing is, we meet those people face to face and we know them personally.  This is natural.  

The most difficult thing to understand or rather the most confusing thing is the people you know by the pen. That writing i