Imtiaz Sooliman – message to TSIBA graduates
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A speaker from Seba Business School is congratulating families on achievements and achievements made during the pandemic. They encourage families to use their skill and initiative to help others, and encourage them to be gratitude and be the best at what they do. The speaker emphasizes the importance of serving society and serving everyone.
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Good morning Students of Seba business school, to you and your
family the greatest of congratulations. This is indeed a
great day in your educational life, a great day in the life of
your parents and grandparents who sacrifice for you to achieve what
you've achieved today
in your further progress and in your achievements and in your
passing forward, please don't forget where you come from, the
difficulty the pension father and mother had to support you, to put
you to school, to put you to varsity. And when you achieve your
successes, always go back to where you started. I'll give you the
story of a child in pedi in the Eastern Cape,
a mother comes and collects a food parcel. She takes a food parcel
and she says, Thank you very much. It's during covid 19. She says,
Speak to my children, they will tell you the taste of every plant
in this area. My children have been eating plants, dear friends
and students. We need to reverse that in our country. We need to go
back and give back to our children and to our families. We see the
children coming in the dumps waiting for the dump truck, and
when the dump truck offloads the food and the leftover expired
items, small children run to eat their food from a peanut butter
bottle, from a jam tin. This is the difficulty which we as
students, as society, have to reverse. I want to go back to
where my life started in gift of the givers. I met a spiritual
teacher on the sixth of August, 1992 on a Thursday night
at 10pm
it tells me it fluent Turkish, and I don't speak a word of Turkish,
but I understood every single word that is said this is spiritual. He
says to me, my son, I am not asking you, I am instructing you
to form an organization. The name in Arabic will be wagful waqifen,
translated it means gift of the givers. You will serve all people
of all races, all religions, all colors, all classes, all cultures,
of any geographical location and of any political affiliation, but
you will serve them unconditionally. You will expect
nothing in return, not even a thank you. This is an instruction
for the rest of your life. Serve people with love, kindness,
compassion and mercy, and remember the dignity of man is foremost. So
if someone is down in the ground, don't push them down further.
Let's use our skill, our learning, to elevate people to wipe the tear
of a grieving child, to cut us the head of an orphan, to say words of
good counsel to a widow. These things are free. They don't cost
anything. Feed the naked,
feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and provide water to the thirsty.
And in everything that you do be the best at what you do, because
you're dealing with human life, human emotion and human dignity.
The teacher went on to say, my son, that whatever you do is done
through you and not by you. Dear students, God has given you a
gift. He's given you a blessing. He's giving you a skill. It's not
of your own accord. Don't let arrogance and ego ever get into
your soul.
Be grateful for what you have. Be grateful for your parents, your
grandparents, your teachers and of shallow students. And together,
hold hands.
And serve this country, serve our society, serve our nation, because
everyone needs us all the best in your futures, and may God bless
you all you.