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