Khaled Al-Sebaei

Her writing style is truly one of a kind. The ways she writes simply amazes me.

Around a couple or 3 weeks ago. After a long drive from D.M.C (Where I currently work) towards home, looking for a proper parking place for my car and finally parked.

The minute I had stepped out of the car I found a poor-looking young man coming towards me with carrying tiny bottles arabian scents in his greasy shiny hands.

As I was getting ready to send him off and make clear to him that I am not interested, he started arguing that these were very fine scents and in a nutshell he needed money in return of them as allegedly his sister is v.sick and…

I asked him to speak no more and immediately agreed to give him some money. I opened the door of my car again to reach in where I usually keep some coins to be thrown down parking meters. I didn’t find any.

“I hate to disappoint you but I don’t currently have coins” then I reached for my wallet and got out a 100 Dhs paper and asked whether he had some change. Surprisingly he said yes. ”...and you claim to be a poor man” I said quietly. He started explaining again then again I said “say no more”. He handed me some change and I gave him the 100 Dirhams paper.

He then asked for another 5 Dirhams in order to share a taxi to Sharjah. It did not take long before I gave it to him.

Then he asked for my name, I told him and he promised to pray for me before walking away very elated.

Whether I believe that man or not. Here’s how I look at this story. That man may have taken more money from me than WE could have ever imagined. But in return, I think I made God “proud” of me. I needed God to forgive me for a lot of bad things that I did and still don’t have what it takes to stop doing them in the near future.