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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Zahid Hussain

Good morning.

Don鈥檛 we love those Top Lists? Top 10s, Top 100s?

Well, I do!

鈥� Top 10 Children鈥檚 TV Programmes!

鈥� Top 100 Movies Ever!

鈥� Top 3 Reasons to Buy a New Sofa!

Of course, some of these are sheer opinion and others are supposedly based on fact.

Isn鈥檛 it great to know our place in things, to know we鈥檝e watched the Top 10, to know that we鈥檙e a purveyor of great taste?

But there鈥檚 something about these top lists of things then never occurred to me until I lived abroad for a few years and I didn鈥檛 even go far. France and Spain. The funny thing was when I encountered a Top 10 list of Best Songs, Best Movies they were completely different from the ones I鈥檇 read about in the UK

For instance, the French based their Top 10 Movies on French movies鈥�The Spanish on well, you guessed it!

And it鈥檚 the 鈥淏est Ever鈥�, 鈥淕reatest Ever鈥� that really does startle me. If anyone compiles a Best Ever list and it doesn鈥檛 include Chinese or Indian movies or books or songs or anything鈥�then the list just missed half the world鈥檚 population. It can鈥檛 be a global Top 10 or 100 of anything at all.

The world is incredibly diverse and please, please don鈥檛 believe that everyone in the world watches the same soaps, news and listens to the same songs. They really, really don鈥檛.

Dear Lord, we sometimes forget we share this world with others and that their lives are as significant as our own. Allow us to learn from each other, to share the best of each other and to remember each other as you would like us to do.

Ameen.

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