Now, all the muslims who are making a lot o noise about the pope and what he said are only proving him right! Either they are jobless and have enough time to make these problems.......or it appears to be true that they are not human enough to understand that human beings make mistakes... and sometimes very grave ones...and it is noble and sort of superior to be forgiving...forgiving is a character of God ...and moreover how can we ask God to forgive us if we do not forgive others who do us wrong? I think these thoughts are useful especially as we enter into the period of Ramadan...which is supposed to be seeking God's mercy. Don't you think so?
The book is titled "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck and is a true story of a farmer in China before the revolution. This farmer was a poor man and he married a slave girl...not beautiful/ugly.. because this was the best he would do then. But eventually he became a rich man. In the process his wife was faithful and hardworking and having been a slave in a rich house knew many things of life at a higher standard in society. But she worked hard with the poor farmer while he became rich...they had to go through a terrible famine with four children and she was faithful to him all along. But eventually when the farmer became rich he came across a new thing in life... such as visiting tea shops with harlots. He fell in love with a beautiful harlot and then he started noticing that his wife is ugly. He even married the harlot and brought her home offering her a better standard of life. The first wife was heart broken and she cried saying she had borne him sons...even though the terr...
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