Spiritual meditation
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Boulis Salama Elchimie
Boulis Salama Elchimie
1907-1982
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Boulis Salama was born in Akhmeim in Southeern Egypt in the year 1907, but he did not stay long as he left with his mother and uncle after the death of his father to Sudan in 1919. He was only 12 years old. In Sudan he found a job in the Post Department which was at the time under the British who was occupying the Sudan at the time. He learned during his period there the English Language, Arithmetic and Arabic language by his own efforts. He was successful in his job and reached the job of Post office clerk in less than five years. After twenty years in the Post Dept he resigned and went looking for better opportunists in the free trade. After several trials he established his own business as bookshop owner selling mainly English books which he used to import from England.
After retirement and the deteriorated political and economic conditions in Sudan he moved to Australia in 1975 to be with his daughter Rosemary and son Amazis who moved earlier there. The others followed after. During that period he was able to write some of his memories, poems and articles relating to historical and religious subjects in Egypt.
This booklet is a translation of some articles to English from the original Arabic and divided into two main parts, the first one related to the Christen reflections and the second part on memories of travels in Europe and dialogues with his grand children.
Rosemary Suliman
Sydney 2021
Adoration
Oh Jesus I know thee You are my king
Oh Jesus I love thee You are our king of love
Oh Jesus I adore thee You are our king of light
Oh Jesus I worship thee You are our king of power
Oh Jesus I bow my knee You are our king of peace
For thee and eternity
Amen
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To the Mother of Jesus
On His birthday I remembered you
I abandoned the crowds and the candles
The lights and the flowers
I left the ringing bells and the singing mass
And I remembered you.
I remembered the day you went to Bethlehem
You and Joseph, strangers in Bethlehem
No face that knows you
No house that shelters you
No place but a stable in Khan
And there you were in labour
You gave birth among the strangeness,
, loneliness and sadness
And when you made a cradle of the stable
He opened His eyes and you saw in them the glory of the heavens from where He came.
You forgot the pains of labour and the hardness of loneliness
You forgot the murmuring of the gossipers around you in Nazareth
And you heard the singing of angels in your ears
May Peace be on Earth, The King of Peace is born.
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