From my mailbox

piece by piece every week and made my own archive. But two years ago, I got similar cuttings of the diary from the same old friend.

As a young man then, in my early 20’ s, I got a model of the ideal Islamic home I have been praying for in the diary, to the extent that whoever I came across from the opposite gender, the first thing I do is to introduce Albint’s diary to her.

Indeed the compilation into a book is timely, especially when the online archive does not cover all the articles., I also suggest that a website or a blog and links to social networks like twitter, facebook, Google+ etc should spring up as a discussion forum where discourse on our family life style can take place. In the words of Suleiman Zailani when he wrote about Albint’s diary, ‘ Weekly Trust has regenerated Intellectual dynamism here in the North.’

I wish to call on our literati literati’s s to do a thorough analysis of Albint’s diary. Yours sincerely will try to join this exercise by analyzing, from the days of Grandma with her priceless wisdom and timely advice, down to when Tahir was given a royal

I am a regular reader of your column but I’ve never written to you until today. You’re doing a great job with those ever enlightening stories. May Allah reward your efforts. I just happen to enjoy deciding for myself which of your stories are real and which are just fiction. Even though I always tell my mum they are all real, may be you just do a little modification but they are all inspired by a true life l story if not completely true. This week’s story “n not all glitters” really caught caug my attention. F For the first time I f felt I really want to know whether wheth it actually actua happened in real life. I am a also ve very curious to kno know why the t husband did wh what he did. If it’s rea really true, he is fortunate to be alive ali and can ask f for her forgiveness forgivene though they have ha separated. Really felt f sorry for that po poor little girl. So am going goi to ask, is it a true l life story? And do y you happen to kno know the husband’s husban reason f for his action actions? Weekly Trust w will be somewh somewhat boring without witho your colum column. Keep up the go good work. work.

Fatima Dikko < dikko. fatima@ yahoo. com>

Musa Muhammad

Make them longer, then make a movie

FOR the past six years, I’ve been

AL- BINT, to me so far your diary is the best ever because I found motivation, inspiration and the courage to do a lot of things and to tackle many of life’s issues. All I can say again is more ink to your pen.

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I must sincerely appreciate and congratulate you for keeping us busy every Saturday, waiting at a newspaper stand to have our copy. I’m glad you have decided to compile your