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A success Story

 

Yesterday afternoon Frank Hawakins was telling me about his experiences as a young man.

Frank is now the head of a very large company, but as a boy he used to work in a small shop. It was hos job to repair bicycles and at that time he used to work fourteen hours a day. He saved money for years and in 1938 he bought a small work-shop of his own.

During the war, Frank used to make spare parts for aeroplanes. At that time he had two helpers. By the end of the war, the small work shop had become a large factory which employed seven hundred and twenty-eight people.  

Frank smiled when he remembered his hard early years and the long road to success. He was still smiling when the door opened and his wife came in. She wanted him to repair their son’s bicycle!

 

A Success Story	Title
Yesterday afternoon Frank Hawakins was telling me about his experiences as a young man.	Orientation
Frank is now the head of a very large company, but as a boy he used to work in a small shop. It was hos job to repair bicycles and at that time he used to work fourteen hours a day. He saved money for years and in 1938 he bought a small work-shop of his own.	Series of Events
During the war, Frank used to make spare parts for aeroplanes. At that time he had two helpers. By the end of the war, the small work shop had become a large factory which employed seven hundred and twenty-eight people.
Frank smiled when he remembered his hard early years and the long road to success. He was still smiling when the door opened and his wife came in. She wanted him to repair their son’s bicycle!	Reorientation

 

(The text taken from Practice and Progress: 83)

 

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Ibnu Sina (Avicenna)

This great scientist was born in around 980 A.D in the village of Afshana, near Bukhara which is also his mother’s hometown. His father, Abdullah an advocate, was from Balkh which is now a part of Afghanistan. Ibn Sina received his early education in his home town and by the age of ten he became a Qur’an Hafiz. He had exceptional intellectual skills which enabled him to overtake his teachers at the age of fourteen.

During the next few years he devoted himself to Muslim Jurisprudence, Philosophy and Natural Science and studied Logic. Ibn Sina was an extremely religious man. When he was still young, Ibn Sina was highly baffled by the work of Aristotle on Metaphysics so much so that he used to leave all the work and pray to Allah to guide him. Finally after reading a manual by a famous philosopher al-Farabi, he found the solutions to his difficulties.

At the age of sixteen he dedicated all his efforts to learn medicine and by the time he was eighteen gained the status of a reputed physician. During this time he was also lucky in curing Nooh Ibn Mansoor, the King of Bukhhara, of an illness in which all the renowned physicians had given up hope. On this great effort, the King wished to reward him, but the young physician only got consent to use the King’s exclusive library of the Samanids.

On his father’s death, when Ibn Sina was twenty-two years old, he left Bukhara and moved to Jurjan near Caspian Sea where he lectured on logic and astronomy. Here he also met his famous contemporary Abu Raihan al-Biruni. Later he travelled to Rai and then to Hamadan, where he wrote his famous book Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb. Here he also cured Shams al-Daulah, the King of Hamadan, for severe colic.

From Hamadan, he moved to Isfahn, where he finished many of his epic writings. Nevertheless, he continued to travel and the too much mental exertion as well as political chaos spoilt his health. The last ten or twelve years of his life, he spent on the service of Abu Ja’far ‘Ala Addaula, whom he accompanied as physician and general literary and scientific consultant. He died during June 1037 A.D and was buried in Hamedan, Iran.

During his life, Ibn Sina has delivered approximately 450 books. His book includes one of his earliest and quite phenomenal. The book by Ibn Sina Islamic leaders that was quite a major impact on the world is ash-Shifa '. Ash-Shifa 'is a book of his work which contains a variety of information about health and treatment techniques. This book is considered too large and heavy. As a result the book is reviewed only by certain circles.

 

http://www.famousscientists.org/avicenna/

http://dayahlibrary.blogspot.com/2012/01/biography-of-ibnu-sina-muslim-leader.html

 

Answer these questions based on the text above. Use short answers.

 

1.       When and where was Ibnu Sina born?

2.       How old was he when he became a Qur’an Hafiz?

3.       What did he do when he was baffled by the work of Aristotle on metaphysics?

4.       Why was Ibnu Sina lucky at the age of eighteen?

5.       What are the contents of Ash-Shifa?

6.       What is the main idea of the third paragraph?

7.       How many books has Ibnu Sina delivered during his life?

8.       “This book is considered too large and heavy.” ( last paragraph). The underlined word refers to……