OFTEN, a man afraid to commit. But if it is committed, they would be more afraid of getting married. Why is that?

Persians can read the future in a cup of coffee. How you make the coffee says it all. You can smell it in the aroma.

Translators do a great job. We have to listen over and over again some recordings. That is how we know that lawyers have to be good listeners and that is how we recall the memorable Ich bin ein lieben Berliner, which literary means I love one Berlin.

Today is Woman’s Day. Each woman has her own project. The goal of all women is to have a family and children of course to pass on the knowledge gathered for centuries.

Our backgrounds tell, where we come from for example our accent. The easiest way is to read the birth certificates, which tell where we were born. Some countries can grant nationalities to children born in a given country like France and they have some obligations like do military service before the age of twenty one.

It is important to be loyal to a cause. You have to say what is your opinion. That is how you estimate you are an independent and free man.

A name can tell who you are for example. There are people, who are named after places, therefore they belong to the bourgeoisie or to the middle class. There are others who are named after countries, therefore they are nobles or orphans. There are names which express feelings and those are African names.

There are people who can tell about your social background by looking at you. There are countries where the population does not like to identify themselves by their ethnic group.

They say that everybody is equal. Therefore, our backgrounds cannot be used against us. We are what we are and that is how God is for everybody.

This poem is the English translation by A. R Luther of the poem written by Bullah Shah in Urdu.