Human value. They say that money solves everything in the world. They say that human welfare does not allow this. You cannot do anything without money. No matter how much knowledge you have, you cannot live without money. Even those who acquire this knowledge sell it for money, and the owner of clear knowledge is left behind.
A child of an ordinary person has the most knowledge, but a child of a rich man knows nothing.
Why are you always a rich man’s son? Why do you say that if a man with money is his father. Did you see, my friends, this story of mine will still be answered in the Day of Judgement.
Bukhara region Jondor district of the 30th school 8th “a” class student Maftuna Rustamova
No midday warmth shields us from the chill of our shadows,
No dreams to drag us to sleep
Our house, rooted in the heart of the storm—
We were the first to leave it,
The last to enter, to sit in the folds of its corners
Like used pencils,
Staring at a heater,
Its oil dwindling,
Leaning shyly, against the chest of the wall.
We have nothing from our father but all of him
From our mother,
the warmth her Abaya that we moved to and from
The glow of our souls
Our burps from fullness,
The acceleration of our pulse at the crossroads of stories,
And her whispering,
“Sleep! We fell asleep.
By Faleeha Hassan
She is a poet, teacher, editor, writer, and playwright born in Najaf, Iraq, in 1967, who now lives in the United States. Faleeha was the first woman to write poetry for children in Iraq. She received her master’s degree in Arabic literature and has now published 27 books. Her poems have been translated into English, Turkmen, Bosnian, Indian, French, Italian, German, Kurdish, Spain, Korean, Greek, Serbia, Albanian, Pakistani, Romanian, Malayalam, Chinese, ODIA, Nepali and Macedonian. She is a Pulitzer Prize Nominee for 2018 and a Pushcart Prize Nominee for 2019.
Faleeha is a member of the International Writers and Artists Association, a winner of the Women of Excellence Inspiration award from SJ Magazine 2020, the winner of the Grand Jury Award (the Sahitto International Award for Literature 2021), a member of the Women of Excellence selection committees for 2023, a winner of a Women in the Arts award for 2023, a member of Who’s Who in America 2023, on the judging panel for the 2023 Sahitto Award, the winner of the HerStory Award from the Women’s Federation for World Peace New Jersey 2024, a Cultural Ambassador between Iraq and the USA since 2018, a Cultural Ambassador and worldwide literary advisor for PEN CRAFT Bangladesh.
She is also honored to be appointed as a 2024 Peace Ambassador by the Universal Peace Federation and to be a member of The Founding Mothers Global Women’s Congress 2024. You may email Faleeha Hassan at d.fh88@yahoo.com
