Walking into an office or business run by Indians anywhere in Africa and they're speaking straight US/UK(accent) English is unsettling & confusing for me, Ranjit where's that Pilipili masala accent please?

Iron sheets less valued or is it time. Or is Mpuuga s damage more hurtful than the ruling party.

Legal alert: High Court of #Uganda has granted a search & seizure Order (legally known as 'Anton Piller') against a former employee who downloaded 125 confidential #email files from his former employer and shared them with a competitor company

#employment #ethics #tradesecrets

To me, this is a basic speech. The bar is just low for ministers. We’ve been much accustomed to such a low bar. What would have been more important is if she presented numbers and not praise singing to the appointing authority…

But well done to her 👏

This WITCH was one of the MPs that rejected the motion to create awareness and increase availability of contraceptives to teenagers and she’s now opening her mouth about teenage pregnancy. This is the same way MPs increased tax on diapers to “fight” homosexuality and instead…

Can't believe I always thought it was la lala lah . What the hell is Ba ya ya.

When I see I Chelsea highlight clip with a 4-0 goal margin

Who do you trust more ?

In the coffeehouses of North Africa, the famous and sublime genre of poetry termed ‘Malouf Tunsi’ was developed.

Poets would come drink coffee and then recite melodious and spiritually charged poems in praise of ascetics, of prophets, and of the Divine.

Yemeni Sufis would also regularly perform a devotional ritual in which they would drink coffee while performing a ‘ratib’ (singing verses of the Qur’an to music)—the ratib involved reciting the divine name of Allah ‘Ya Qawi’ (‘The One with Inexhaustible Strength’) 116 times.

One mystic of the Ba 'Alawiyya tariqa Sufi order of Yemen described drinking coffee with deep devotional intent as ‘qahwat al-Sufiya’.

This can be understood as the bliss that the friends of God feel when they behold the veiled mysteries and receive the great revelations.

Due to its stimulating and awakening effects on the mind, the Arabic word for coffee is ‘qahwa’ (قهوة), which was originally the Arabic word for wine.

Many mystics even coined the term ‘marqaha’ to describe the state of ecstasy and rapture induced by the consumption of coffee.

Indeed, mystics would boil the grounds and drink coffee to help them stay wake during nightly sessions of ‘dhikr’—a method of prayer consisting of rhythmic repetition (silent or vocal) of one of the 99 Divine names of God, a syllable, a word (e.g. Allah), a phrase, or a litany.

Shadhili promoted the stimulating effects of coffee, stating that it allowed him more time to spend in prayer and contemplation.

Soon, the drink became very popular among Sufi mystics who would would drink coffee during sessions of contemplation.

In another variation of the legend, Shadhili travelled to Ethiopia where he was introduced to the practice of drinking coffee and the the fruit from which it derived—the ‘buna’.

Shadhili returned to Yemen with the berries, praising their abilities to reawaken and revitalise.

He then decided to drink the boiled water instead.

In just a few moments, Shadhili felt reawakened and rejuvenated.

News of these ‘magical’ beans travelled back to the town of Mocha and Shadhili was welcomed back with honour and venerated as a saint for his discovery.

Thrown out of the town by the King with no food and nowhere to go, Shadhili began to wander until he happened upon a bush of red berries.

Tasting them, he found the berries to be bitter and the beans hard.

He boiled the beans of the berries, but they remained inedible.

The legend describes how Shadhili arrived in the port town of Mocha in modern-day Yemen and began healing its citizens.

As a result, Shadhili became deeply respected among the populace. However, one day he was found to be courting the King’s daughter and was then banished.

Though its origins are deeply obfuscated and shrouded in mystery, according to one legend we can trace the origins of coffee to the Moroccan Islamic scholar, healer, and mystic Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili (1196–1258), who founded the Shadhili Sufi order.