To Whom I Care

By Abdulelah Bin Khaled Awad Allam

I believe that our tangible worldly life has two journeys:

The first journey starts after the apple was eaten… that we won the race in our mothers’ wombs, despite billions of competition. This shows our strength and our ability to take responsibility, so we were created for the second stage with the power of Allah.

The second journey is the last, which starts after puberty. This is where we establish our records to be presented with our right hand on the Day of Judgment, God willing. This is where we achieve our victory, by eluding the dreaded Satan and his aides.

With this message in mind, I try to represent my experiences in my second journey through this book. Highlighting the lessons from 55 years of experience in working for public and private sectors, and including wonderful family relationships that has spanned for decades. I hope our future generations will cling to the lessons from this book and in coming books, and pass it on with love and real positivity.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 21, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664183230

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CONTENTS

Foreword

William Schipper, PhD, Chairman, School of Management

at Tysons Institute, Vienna, Virginia, USA

Primary Message, To Whom I Care

FOREWORD

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William Schipper, PhD

Chairman, School of

Management at Tysons

Institute

Vienna, Virginia, USA

D uring my first read of To Whom I Care , my mind suddenly recalled and made comparisons to works by the famous existentialist philosophers Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre and even Viktor Frankl ( Man’s Search for Meaning )—all whom I first encountered six decades ago. I was captivated. Especially since I watched this book bloom forth from discussions between the author and me while he was a student recently in my management class at Tysons Institute in Northern Virginia. He writes his own personal history and offers life’s lessons learned in a unique way: as a letter to himself. That especially made this a captivating read.

He discusses many topics with people from differing points of view frankly but respectfully. He speaks of his theories and ideas with various people, covering topics like politics, atheism, terrorism, and his own experiences growing up and simply living his life. He advises life is full of lessons and offers many lessons learned from his life. However, throughout it all, there are two constant ideals he remained true to: "Be yourself and Think outside the box. The age-old wisdom of treat others as you want to be treated" is well presented while still holding on to, and even savoring, the concept of being yourself.

He struggles to make sense out of many things, from his own genealogy to the mysteries of the universe, while trying to figure out exactly how and why it all relates to himself. A man who is endeavoring to understand society and his place in it. A man who is profoundly searching into the deepest recesses of his own soul, trying to understand who he is and facing some hard questions in search of some honest truths. A man trying to figure out who he is so that he can be himself.

His heartfelt search regarding the truth of religions—or faith—is thought-provoking, in that it challenges many of the accepted ideals of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. He ponders the contradictory actions of those who profess to follow any of these religions and then act out in the most carnal of ways. As the author so succinctly puts it, In fact, I get very upset when I see the so-called believers killing anyone who contradicts them.

What comes through most clearly, however, is the genuine search for knowledge, understanding, and the absolute love and justifiable pride he has in both his close and his extended family. The tributes that he gives to his various family members are poignant testimonials of lives well lived. These people are to be admired, even emulated, for their morals, intelligence, hard work, and loyalty to and love for family. His many life’s lessons are meant as messages of love to existing and future generations.

The journey throughout this book will bring up thoughts and questions that most people never consider. But that’s a good thing. These are the kinds of things we should all ponder in order to not only improve ourselves but also the world we live in. It’s ultimately up to each individual to seek answers to life’s fundamental questions. We all need to know how to be the best we can be and to finally learn to be ourselves and to think outside the box.

He says To Whom I Care is the first of a four-part series. I anxiously await.

PRIMARY MESSAGE,

TO WHOM I CARE

He is my friend

since my childhood.

We used to have different opinions,

but we respected each other.

On a cold night

in Virginia,

in the United States of America,

I said to him in a voice full of life and respect,

"Don’t backbite anyone!

This is a forbidden matter."

He replied, "I told the truth about him.

He is a difficult person and not a decision-maker."

It seemed that embarrassed my friend.

I felt he was nervous.

Therefore, I tried to convince him in a benevolent way

that people have different personalities

and a recent study found that

people have sixteen ways of thinking,

thus, they differ in the way they behave

when they go through the same situation. At that time.