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Iam haya , Iam a participent in an english competetion for writing essays ,so I wrote (benifits of reading)
hope it admires u ....but ,if u please , can u check it for me , because Iam Arabic girl ,and u do better in english ......thank u for caring ...
Benefits of reading
Whenever i see it, or even give it a peek , I feel that it admonishes me ,it wants to get out of its prison between shelves "please get me out of here",as it has been there for a long time. It feels lonely in this world, or rather, the Arab world. Did you guess it? It's a book! After that, it reloads me of the responsibility of sending his message to those whom I know, and that’s why I wrote this essay.
"A home without books is like a room without windows". Have you ever wondered the benefits of reading? or why and what should we read? There are a lot of endless benefits of it, lets see some of them:
at first ,it develops the average of attention span and the ability to concentrate at length. It's also well known that reading expands our interests and horizons of knowledge, improves our creativity and ability to analyze what happens around us well. But the most important aim of reading we can reap is the practical side or the culture .one of culture meanings is the sum of informations ,values ,conceptions and clues that control our behaviors in life.so, we can conclude the answer of why to read,by saying we should read the positive books that give us a positive push and behaviors in every aspect of life .If u inspect this meaning well ,you will know how islam cares about this side.
Our prophet (pbuh) was a quran walking on the land" that's how his companions described him. Just getting this saying is a cogent proof of the importance of reading _the good books in Islam. Take a look at our past, when the caliph was giving that wrote or translated a book, a quantity of gold as the weight of the book. But these manners were surrounded by a country ruled by Islamic law ,in other words, they have never ever forgot their holy book, their first book issue. Because if we forget our holy book, we will simply forget the other books at all, and then, we will lead ourselves to the abyss, and that what happens at this time. "
Whenever u ask anybody here whether he reads or not ,he replied of being busy ,or because he does not love reading because it’s a boring stuff! Is it a right excuse !Or because he does not a ware of the importance of reading!Ok.there are many other reasons of lacking of reading ,for example , poverty _that leads to an intellectual poverty_,the book itself, the media ,especially the Internet and TV that give us information quickly and easily,the recklessness of youths that forms 60% of our society and the most important reason as I wrote above is forgetting quran which should be read everyday. Thats why our poor book feels lonely here.but does he feel lonely in there? I think that he is so excited!
We have many festivals here, right? But what is it mostly about? Dancing and singing are the most important! Ok, have we ever thought about year of reading! Yes , that happens at UK, to encourage children to read and their parents how to choose good books for them. Imagine that lots of people there ,send their 2years old children to the libraries to strengthen the bond between them and books and to develop the sense of affinity in them , in order to be good readers in the future! At the time that we publish 1 book per 350thousand people ,they publish 1 book per 15 thousand!They use amazing ways to spread reading everywhere, for example ,at UK there is a bookshop in every school to buy , the income to these book shops reached one million pounds in a year! In fact, after reading about how they deal with books ,I notice that they focus on teaching children the reading and try to create an exciting environment to make them good readers, because children now are the builders of tomorrow.
Finally ,that’s what I could write about reading, I hope that we regain our values and use it in our life and take care of our holy book to become the best nation in the world. Remember, that when voltair was asked about future leaders ,he replied "those who read",so, you can choose whether to be one of these 2%leaders or one of the 98%followers!anyway, its your choice!
my regards..
Haya Al Amleh