were you ever poor?

[Karachi]

So were you ever poor??

I wasn't very poor, but about 20 years ago we had a really old house in Karachi, which didn't have a roof, so when ever it use to rain, the house got flooded.

I myself grew up in Saudi Arabia, luckily and didn't really get to live in that house too much.

My dad experienced real time poverty though, when he was growing up

Now we live in a really nice house here in Toronto

[Maulik]

I was born rich and right now also. .but yes.my father was poor in his early years till job

[Shehbaz Khan]

I personally saw a time when I didn't have enough money like 5 Rupees to have a proper hair cut some 10 years ago .. today Alhamdulillah I am better than many living a comfortable life !!

[graveyardofempires]

I personally saw a time when I didn't have enough money like 5 Rupees to have a proper hair cut some 10 years ago .. today Alhamdulillah I am better than many living a comfortable life !!

hey rokiya

why did you change your signature?

[Shehbaz Khan]

hey rokiya

why did you change your signature?

Just for a change, don't you like the new one

[Afghanistan2010]

Poor is the one who has no knowledge.

[graveyardofempires]

Just for a change, don't you like the new one

i dont really know what it really means,care to explain the new one?

[Shehbaz Khan]

Mashaal means a source of light .. A Bulb - Da Nationalyano Nishan Laltain like !!

Wrak hagha mashaal sha che tyara shi aao day bal na shi !!

It's the second verse of Ghani Khan Baba's shair, I don't really remember the first one but my mind stored this one

[Afghanistan2010]

I remember you che Paghambar Aleyh salatu wasalam pe Nationalism pe bare ke za wali di :

The Messenger of Allah (saaw) referring to nationalism, racism, and patriotism said: "Leave it, it is rotten." [Muslim and Bukhari] and in the Hadith recorded in Mishkat al-Masabith, the Messenger of Allah (saaw) said,"He who calls for `Asabiyyah is as if he bit his father's genitals" Also, the Messenger of Allah (saaw) said, narrated by At-Tirmidhi and Abu Dawud

[Master Khan]

well no we wasn't that poor.
my father's father was a zamidar with alot of land, my mum's father was a police inspector in Hong Kong...so we wasn't poor.
we still got the most land in our village Alhamdulillah.

[badmash_khel]

Never been poor money wise but the real poor are not the ones who don't have money but those who are not at peace with themselves. money comes and goes. if your not too attached to material wealth, you will never be poor.

[faye]

basically, materially poor, most of my life. especially when gypsying around surviving from portrait sketching because work wasn't always available. has made for an interesting journey though, no complaints.

[Laila]

Damn, when my family first came to the US, we were poor. Actually way below even poverty line. We lived in poverty for about 10 years. I remember when we first came, we didnt know where to live. And this elderly poor Pashtun gave us one room to rent out at the masjid. My father knew his cousin back in Khyber. So we lived there for about 2 years, it didnt have any AC or heating system. Till today i am very thankful to him. He is sick now.

I remember when i was about 10 years old, my parents could only afford to buy each of us children two pair of jeans a year. One day i was shopping at the store with my mother. And i saw these jeans that i loved. And i begged my mother to buy them for me. I didnt know whether she could afford it or not, so i just walked away from it. I think my mom saw me so then she bought them. The next day i had PE (physical education) at school. We were just about to get ready to run a few laps, when i fell forward. I noticed that my jeans were completely torn. I sat there and cried and cried knowing that my mother was not even able to afford it. Till today, i havent even told her what happened. So that year i had one pair of pants to wear everyday, but surprisingly my mother didnt notice it.

[کیش]

I belief the wave of Refugees in the 80's had it the hardest. When my parents became refugees in 80, movements included Islamabad; Peshawer; Karachi; Peshawer; Frankfurt, Germany; New Mexico; New York; Los Angeles and again New York in a 6 year Span.


Oh yea, not to mention the survival of thE fittest atmosphere of NY. Your own family would not want you to live with them.

[graveyardofempires]

i dont know about being poor but prelude to civil war in Afghanistan was tough times,it was hard to find bread or even water at times.

i have a large family who helped eachother in every calamity,i remember once we had no bread just some tea and dry bread and i ate that dry (hardend)bread as if it was the most delicious.