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[Pindi-Islamabad:94121] Story: The Black Telephone

When I was a young boy, my father had one of the first telephones in our neighborhood. I remember the polished, old case fastened to the Wall. The shiny receiver hung on the side of the box. I was too little to reach the telephone, but used to listen with fascination when my mother talked to it.

Then I discovered that somewhere inside the wonderful device lived an amazing person. Her name was "Information Please" and there was nothing she did not know. Information Please could supply anyone's number and the correct time.

My personal experience with the genie-in-a-bottle came one day while my mother was visiting a neighbor. Amusing myself at the tool bench in the basement, I whacked my finger with a hammer, the pain was terrible, but there seemed no point in crying because there was no one home to give sympathy.

I walked around the house sucking my throbbing finger, finally arriving at the stairway. The telephone! Quickly, I ran for the footstool in the parlor and dragged it to the landing. Climbing up, I unhooked the receiver in the parlor and held it to my ear.

"Information, please," I said into the mouthpiece just above my head.

A click or two and a small clear voice spoke into my ear.

"Information."

"I hurt my finger..." I wailed into the phone, the tears came readily enough now that I had an audience.

"Isn't your mother home?" came the question.

"Nobody's home but me," I blubbered.

"Are you bleeding?" the voice asked.

"No,"I replied. "I hit my finger with the hammer and it hurts."

"Can you open the icebox?" she asked.

I said I could.

"Then chip off a little bit of ice and hold it to your finger," said the voice..

After that, I called "Information Please" for everything. I asked her for help with my geography, and she told me where Philadelphia was. She helped me with my maths.

She told me my pet chipmunk that I had caught in the park just the day before, would eat fruit and nuts.

Then, there was the time Petey, our pet canary, died. I called, "Information Please," and told her the sad story. She listened, and then said things grown-ups say to soothe a child. But I was not consoled. I asked her, "Why is it that birds should sing so beautifully and bring joy to all families, only to end up as a heap of feathers on the bottom of a cage?"

She must have sensed my deep concern, for she said quietly, "Wayne, always remember that there are other worlds to sing in."

Somehow I felt better.

Another day I was on the telephone, "Information Please."

"Information," said in the now familiar voice.

"How do I spell fix?" I asked.

All this took place in a small town in the Pacific Northwest. When I was nine years old, we moved across the country to Boston. I missed my friend very much.

"Information Please" belonged in that old wooden box back home and I somehow never thought of trying the shiny new phone that sat on the table in the hall. As I grew into my teens, the memories of those childhood conversations never really left me.

Often, in moments of doubt and perplexity I would recall the serene sense of security I had then. I appreciated now how patient, understanding, and kind she was to have spent her time on a little boy.

A few years later, on my way west to college, my plane put down in Seattle. I had about a half-hour or so between planes. I spent 15 minutes or so on the phone with my sister, who lived there now. Then without thinking what I was doing, I dialed my hometown operator and said, "Information Please."

Miraculously, I heard the small, clear voice I knew so well.

"Information."

I hadn't planned this, but I heard myself saying,

"Could you please tell me how to spell fix?"

There was a long pause. Then came the soft spoken answer, "I guess your finger must have healed by now."

I laughed, "So it's really you," I said. "I wonder if you have any idea how much you meant to me during that time?"

"I wonder," she said, "if you know how much your call meant to me. I never had any children and I used to look forward to your calls."

I told her how often I had thought of her over the years and I asked if I could call her again when I came back to visit my sister.

"Please do," she said. "Just ask for Sally."

Three months later I was back in Seattle.

A different voice answered, "Information."

I asked for Sally.

"Are you a friend?" she said.

"Yes, a very old friend," I answered.

"I'm sorry to have to tell you this," She said. "Sally had been working part time the last few years because she was sick. She died five weeks ago."

Before I could hang up, she said,

"Wait a minute, did you say your name was Wayne ?" "

"Yes." I answered.

Well, Sally left a message for you. She wrote it down in case you called. "Let me read it to you."

The note said, "Tell him there are other worlds to sing in. He'll know what I mean."

I thanked her and hung up. I knew what Sally meant.

Never underestimate the impression you may make on others.

Whose life have you touched today?

Why not pass this on? I just did....

Lifting you on eagle's wings.

May you find the joy and peace you long for.

Life is a journey... NOT a guided tour.

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[Pindi-Islamabad:94120] Hadith: Advantage of Going to Mosque Early on Friday

Narrated Abu Huraira (Radi-Allahu 'anhu):

The Prophet (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam) said, "On every Friday the
angels take their stand at every gate to the masjid to write the names of
the people chronologically (i.e. according to the time of their arrival for
the Friday prayer) and when the Imam sits (on the pulpit) they fold up
their scrolls and get ready to listen to the sermon."

Bukhari Vol. 4 : No. 433

M Junaid Tahir
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www.DailyTenMinutes.com

[Pindi-Islamabad:94119] نکتہ چینی

ابھی پچھلے جمعے کی بات ہے کہ میں اخبار پڑھ پڑھا کر اور نہا دھو کر مزے سے کرسی پر بیٹھا تھا تو میں نے اچانک محسوس کیا کہ میں کس قدر مزے میں ہوں ۔ اور کس آسانی کے ساتھ یہ وقت گذار رہا ہوں ۔ پھر میرے ذہن میں آسان آسان چیزوں کی پھوار سی پڑنے لگی اور میں مزید آسان چیزوں کے نقشے بنانے لگا ۔

میں نے اندازہ لگایا کہ اس دنیا میں نکتہ چینی سب سے آسان شے ہے ۔ کہ اس کے لیے نہ تو کوئی محنت کرنے کی ضرورت ہے اور نہ کچھ خاص ذہن رکھنے کی ۔ احمق سے احمق انسان بھی بڑی آسانی کے ساتھ نکتہ چیں بن سکتا ہے ۔ اور مشکل سے مشکل کام پر دل کھول کر تنقید کر سکتا ہے ۔ پھر میں نے اپنے ارد گرد کا جائزہ لیا تو محسوس کیا کہ ہمارے ملک میں تعمیری کام کرنے والوں کے مقابلے میں نقادوں اور نکتہ چینوں کی تعداد بہت زیادہ ہے ۔ اور ان میں روز بروز اضافہ ہو رہا ہے ۔ حالانکہ اصل کام کسی شے کو بنانے یا کسی بگڑی ہوئی چیز کو ٹھیک کرنے میں ہے ۔ کسی ایک چیز ، کسی ایک شے کو ۔ لیکن ایسا ہوتا نہیں لوگ ایک چیز کو ٹھیک کرنے کے بجائے ایک لاکھ چیزوں پر نکتہ چینی کرنے کو افضل گردانتے ہیں ۔

417اشفاق احمد بابا صاحبا صفحہ

M Junaid Tahir
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[Pindi-Islamabad:94117] Optimizing Business Costs

Business costs are sub-classified into two categories; Fixed Costs and Variable Costs.

Fixed costs are defined as the expenses which do not change as a function of business such as salaries of employees, rents of the office, facilities and equipment costs. However, please don't get confused that Fixed Costs cannot be changed. Indeed they can be changed but their prime definition remains the same that these costs are stable for longer duration of time and do not usually get impacted due to on-going business volume. On the contrary, the Variable Costs are the ones which keep changing due to multiple factors.

Below is the list of several domains and recommendations (minor tweak for SMEs and major ones for large scale companies) in the form of questions in order to give you a personalized experience and to invoke the thought process for the business cost reduction:

1- Marketing, Advertising and Business Development:

i- How much budget was utilized for marketing in last 6 months? How much the marketing has been effective? Is there any need to re-evaluate the marketing strategy?

ii- How much investment is done on customer's entertainment?

iii- Do you do a monthly expense analysis audit? Do you know specific techniques to optimize your marketing budget such as AdSense, affiliate marketing etc?

iv- Do you consider B2B marketing, email marketing, banner advertisement, pay per click, video marketing or SEO optimization?

2- Leasing and Rental Management:

i- Does the company's office and warehouse at different locations? Why not having both at same location to reduce renting and transportation costs?

ii- Any recent audit done to determine if the current rented space for office or warehouse is worth its expenses? Is the size and cost in sync with the requirements of business? Can this be moved to a less costly area?

iii- Is there any tools, machinery or other resources which can be leased to earn some extra cash? Any marketing plans to do this?

3- Staff Management and Optimization

i- Are there any underutilized employees? Can some extra tasks given to these employees to make them more productive or 'earning' resources?

ii- Can some of the permanent staff be converted to contract based? This will save extra benefit and reduce your long term liabilities.

iii- Can some of the tasks/ resources be outsourced? (HR services, Visa, documentation, maintenance etc.)

iv- Did any re-evaluation of resource responsibilities happened in last one years? Are there any employees with duplicate roles?

v- Company sponsored mobile phone packages are fairly used? The packages are carefully selected based on the role of each employee? Any audit happened for the utilization of mobile and other resources given to employees?

vi- Are the employees trained enough to perform their duties so that they make less errors and mistakes?

vii- Right policies are in place so as to reduce the reworks? What is the accountability mechanism?

viii- Mature and error free databases are in place for efficient and accurate reports generation and to avoid errors in data entry?

ix- Is there any scheme available through which employees are given suggestions for the improvement of organizations and get rewarded if their suggestions are implemented?

x- Any specialised use of tracking employee online activities such as Manic Time?

xi- Employee lay off should be last thing to do as it impacts your organization in many ways such as loss of sincerity, productivity and efficiency of the rest of the employees.

4- Vehicle Utilization and Fuel Management:

i) How vehicles are utilized in a day to day work? How much company is flexible for the utilization for personal use?

ii) How vehicles are maintained? Is this task given to any agency to avoid corruption and in order to enjoy free benefits such as car replacements ,free wash, oil, and tuning services?

iii) How vehicles are tracked for the daily utilization (how many kilo meters travelled, how could multiple visits or same kind of visits be reduced?

iv) Pick and drop of employee is happening on bulk basis or at individual level?

v) Restriction of some of the travel (local and abroad) possible?

5- Energy Conservation

i) Motion detection Sensors installed for turning lights off during off hours?

ii) Sleep mode enabled on laptop computers?

iii) Older bulbs/fans/computers are still being utilized which are poor when it comes to energy efficient devices selection?

Written by Junaid Tahir.

6- Hard Resources Utilization and Audit

i- How many printers & Scanners are in place? Can we reduce some of them?

ii- How many pages are printed per day? Any mechanism to control it?

iii- Is there any over utilization of pantry products? Employees are encouraged to use non-recyclable things?

iv- Which of the policies and processes can be converted to paperless by avoiding photocopying/ printing/ reproducing ? Can you run a paperless company altogether?

v- Is there any strong mechanism of inventory management? Any products lost because of poor control on hardware resources ?

With these recommendations, I believe any company can optimize their business costs consequently improve their profit margins.

How to you optimize the costs in your organization?

Written by Junaid Tahir

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[Pindi-Islamabad:94116] Daily Qur'an & Hadith 09 Nov 2013 (04 Muharam 1435)

English Translation of Al-Quran

[26].Surah Ash-Shuara [The Poets]

Ayat 153. Thamud (people) said: "You are only of those bewitched!

Ayat 154. "You are but a human being like us. Then bring us a sign if you are of the truthful."

Ayat 155. Salih PBUH said: "Here is Sign a she-camel; it has a right to drink (water), and you have a right to drink (water) (each) on a day, known.

Ayat 156. "And touch her not with harm, lest the torment of a Great Day seize you."

Ayat 157. But they killed the she-camel, and then they became regretful.

Ayat 158. So the torment overtook them. Verily, in this is indeed a sign, yet most of them are not believers.

Ayat 159. And verily! Your Lord, He is indeed the All-Mighty, the Most Merciful.

Tafseer of Ayat 153 to 159. They said: "Thou art only one of those bewitched! They think he is talking like a madman, and they say so. "Thou art no more than a mortal like us: then bring us a Sign, if thou tellest the truth!" He said: "Here is a she-camel: she as a right of watering, and ye have a right of watering, (severally) on a day appointed. For this she-camel, see surah 7: ayat 73. The she-camel was to be a Sign and a test case. Would they respect her rights of watering (and pasturage)? "Touch her not with harm, lest the Penalty of a Great Day seize you." But they ham-strung her: then did they become full of regrets. Their regrets were too late. They had themselves asked for a Sign. The Sign had been given them in the she-camel, which their prophet Salih had put forward as a test case. Would they, through that symbol, respect the law of equity by which all people had rights in water and in the gifts of nature? They refused to respect that law, and committed sacrilege by deliberately killing the she-camel. They themselves came to an evil end. But the Penalty seized them. Verily in this is a Sign: but most of them do not believe. And verily thy Lord is He, the Exalted in Might, Most Merciful.

English Translation of Hadith

Hazrat Abudullah bin Zam'ah Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah [SAWW](PBUH) said, giving a speech when he mentioned the she-camel (of Prophet Salih PBUH) and the man who had killed her. Messenger of Allah [SAWW](PBUH) said: "When the most wicked man among them went forth (to kill the she-camel).' (91:12) signifies that a distinguished, wicked and most powerful chief of the people jumped up to kill the she-camel.''

[Muslim Book 40, Chapter 13, Hadith # 6837].

Lesson : as mentioned above in Surah Ash-Shuara Ayat 157."But they killed the she-camel, and then they became regretful" Ayat 158. So the torment overtook them. Verily, in this is indeed a sign, yet most of them are not believers.

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Friday, November 8, 2013

Narrated Abu Huraira (Radi-Allahu 'anhu):

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