Thursday, July 23, 2009

My Best Journey


I am going to talk about my best journey I have ever had- Mecca. At first, I had a strange feeling, at the same time I was really happy since I had been able to go to Mecca. Although I did go to the journey, I feel I did not deserve it spiritually.
When I reached Masjed-Al-Haram, first I closed my eyes then opened them and saw kabba. It was so fantastic. I couldn't imagine that I was in front of God`s house. The feeling was unprecedented.
After that, I started doing rituals of Hajj while looking at Kabba simultaneously. When I finished them all, I just felt that God had forgiven all my sins.

The Purpose of Hajj

I want to elaborate on the main purpose this journey. I think the primary aim is to cut off affinity from every thing except for Allah in order to strengthening the alliance with him until one reaches Allah and the essence of worship.
Once a person reaches the level of perfection and the stage of worship, he/she returns to guide the creation of Allah to him.

English Institutes

I tend to compare the educational systems of three major English institutes in Iran which are: ILI, Kish and Language National Institute. I have the experience of studying in all of them and in my opinion; none of them alone meets the needs of an English learner.
ILI has a grammar-based system while Kish Institute has a conversation-based system. In Language National Institute, there two kinds of systems. After passing 7 terms, one must select one way of two choices: the conversation-based or grammar-based system. The number of terms in each one are so following: ILI, 18 terms; Kish Institute, 26; Language National Institute, 15.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

a Rather Unpleasant Day

As usual, I woke up at 5:30 and said my morning prayers. Then I went to the park near our home and did some exercises for about 30 minutes. I bought a loaf of fresh bread and came back home. My mother had prepared breakfast before I reached home. I had a full breakfast, and then I was ready to go to ILI (Iran Language Institute).As always, I was so happy that I was going to ILI. I put on my headphones and I left home. The street was very crowded because a car accident had happened. That caused me to arrive late. Reaching ILI, I rushed into the class but unfortunately the deed was done - I got a "very late" mark by the teacher which almost equals "absent". After I sat down, my teacher called my name and I was really shocked because the teacher had asked me questions last session and I didn't expect him to question me again. I hadn't been able to study the new lesson since I was busy studying for university exams. Then I stood up in front of the class and read the passage. I did the reading really well, but sadly I couldn't summarize the passage in a proper way. My teacher asked me some questions about the passage and I answered them successfully. What happened was not acceptable to me; therefore I decided to be ready under any circumstances.