Mahathir, LKY & the states

Came acrossed this while flipping the pages of The Commanding Heights - The battle between government and the marketplace that is remaking the modern world.

On Singapore,
"If Singapore was to find a future, there were only two obvious resources - the people and the leadership", says Daniel, and he sums it all up by quoting what LKY once said, that, "To build a country, you need passion. And if you just do your sums - pluses, minuses, credit, debit - you are washout!"

Have we got a bit (if not the same) of the passion, as yet?

On Malaysia,
"Mahathir did not particularly like the word miracle. It seemed to dismiss hard work and sacrifice and to gloss over enormous differences of market size and structure, culture and - what was important to Mahathir - nationalism."

Age

Nani, age doesn't depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some are born old and some, never grow old!

Prohibition of taking back one's gift

Lean,

Why it is prohibited to take back one's gift? Apart from shameful? Haha! Abu Huraira (r.a) once reported: The Messenger of Allah (saw) said: Someone who takes back his gift is like a dog which eats until it is satisfied and then vomits what it has eaten and then swallows the vomit again.

Sounds terrible and disgusting, right? It is.

Cheers.