HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: seyyed@wuee1.wustl.edu (Seyyed Mahdavian)
Subject: Re: Physics-1A Question
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis Mo.
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 05:37:04 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.011117.17538@wuecl.wustl.edu> seyyed@wuee1.wustl.edu (Seyyed Mahdavian) writes:

>Common part of the three problems:
>Monty presents three boxes, in one of them a prize. The a priori probability
>of having a prize in a given box is therefore 1/3. You choose one box and 
>put it aside.
>
>Problem #1:
>Monty opens one of the remaining two boxes randomly. There is no prize in it. 
                                            ^^^^^^^^
>He asks whether you want to change your choice.
>Solution: The probability of having a prize in either of the unopened
>boxes is 1/2, therefore it doesn't make any difference. For a proof see
>my previous demonstration.

Here, by "randomly", I also mean with equal probability, and it doesn't
matter whether Monty knows in which box the prize is or not. However, in
problem #2 and #3, it is assumed that Monty knows where the prize is, and
he makes a biased choice based on that knowledge.

Seyyed.
From: moussavi@hplred.HP.COM (Farshid Moussavi)
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 16:49:32 GMT
Subject: Re: ali baba the tough guy
Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian

Babak Sehari writes:

[stuff deleted]
>>If Salman Rushdie's punishment is death in Islam, what does Islam prescribe
>>for Ali Baba's highly intellectual post?  I guess if it's a non-believer
>>then any crap can fly, huh. Is this the "effat" and morality that your Islam
>>aims to achieve by covering women?  I marvel at its success. 
>
>
>>Agha Javad
>
>Hey, you get insult for insult.  Our way is always, to answer an eye for
								  ^^^^^^
>an eye.  When people insult our secret religious leaders, we do answer back.
^^^^^^^

This answer was more like a porno movie out of the sewer for an eye.

>As we said before, if you do not want to be a fair game, do not start.
>

Yes, you do answer back.  Even I answered back.  But your answer tells a lot 
about yourself, doesn't it?  Read Ali Baba's answer, and tell me which is 
more insulting to Islam, Mahin's post or his post?  Besides, I never insulted
your sacred leaders, so he should leave me out of it.  Also, you are an Iranian
man.  Do you not take offense when Ali Baba claims that the logic of you and me
and the rest of us is our penis?  If you don't, then I don't know (and neither
do you) how valid "your way" is.

>-- 
>                                 With highest regards,
>                                      Babak   Sehari.


Agha Javad

Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: farhad@CS.Stanford.EDU (Farhad Shakeri)
Subject: Re: Shahreh Farang
Keywords: shahr shahreh farangeh, az hameh rangeh
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 17:43:45 GMT

In article hatamian@gandalf.rutgers.edu (ShAhin) writes:
|> sepehr@acsu.buffalo.edu (Ramin S.) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> >I know what Naghmeh means but what does Najmeh mean ?  
|> 
|> >Ramin
|> 
|> 
|> It means star in arabic.
|> 
|> 	--ShAhin


And All this times, I thought it was naghmeh with turkish accent!!

:-)

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         +----------------------------------------------------+
        /   Farhad  Shakeri         E-Mail:                  /
       /  Stanford   University     farhad@CS.Stanford.EDU  /
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     +----------------------------------------------------+
From: siamak@sltg26.ljo.dec.com (Parviz Siamak)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Shahreh Farang
Keywords: shahr shahreh farangeh, az hameh rangeh
Date: 7 Oct 92 17:41:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: nntpd.1992Oct7.174113.12423
Organization: Software Licensing Technology Group


I am trying to post some articles, but no luck so far. This is my
last attempt.
From: smortaz@handel.Eng.Sun.COM (Shahrokh Mortazavi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Khuzestan
Date: 15 Oct 92 17:36:34 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, CA  USA
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In article <Bw4JEF.K2M@news.cso.uiuc.edu> yaser@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Ala) writes:
>One thing that SHOOSHTARIs repeat all the time is
>
>EESOO
>
>What does it mean?

eessoo means 'now', haalaa, al'aan, etc.

i think its antonym is oosoo, meaning 'then'.

for example: 

eessoo va raveem pe aa hossein: 'haalaa baayad bereem donbaale aaghaa 
hossein'.

it sort of translates into 'so now, ...' in english.  as in:

george cant make it to the game tomorrow, so now weve got to find
someone else.				  ~~~~~~

rough equivalents:

farsi: 	    'haalaa baayad yek nafar digaro...'

shooshtari: 'eessoo va ... '      


do any of our southern comforters remember the popular
shooshtari/dezfooli song that went like this: 'dokhtar, maaret
meeraa... dokhtar, maaret meeraa'?!!!  hell of a love song... man, id
like to meet the person who wrote *those* lyrics!  'girl, i hope your
mother dies... girl, i hope your mother dies...'.  wow!
From: smortaz@handel.Eng.Sun.COM (Shahrokh Mortazavi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Let's make a deal
Keywords: Hot to make money!
Date: 12 Oct 92 23:31:44 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, CA  USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: handel

In article <2AD9099B.28372@news.service.uci.edu> mojgan@orion.oac.uci.edu (Mojgan Bonakdar) writes:

>>  (Shahrokh Mortazavi) writes:
>>> (mack) writes:

>>>Subject: FAQ: soc.culture.iranian - Intro [monthly]
>>>
>>
>>on behalf of sci: thankyou!  
>>
>>you know, beside people with net access, this information would
>>be valuable to any iranian moving to bay area (or the states, or 
>>anywhere for that matter).
>>
>>you could even take this idea further and put together a practical 
>>daanestaneeha-style booklet for the iranian community at large 
>>(and donate the proceeds to a good cause like funding students, etc).
>>
>>even better, you could take out a personal loan, rent an office, ... 
>>
>>ok, ok, i'll stop.
>>
>

howdy mojgan?  good to see youre still a resident of the 
sci jungle! 

....

>What's my point in all this?  Mack has great ideas and the
>ability to put them together, while Sharokh would make a
>great marketing director.  Let me know if you guys need a 
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>good accountant.

ahem, definately not a Marketing Director!  peeleeze...  maybe
a Musical Director (Musical Chairs Director!?), but not
a Marketing Director!    

but seriously, the idea has potential.  you could imagine
a booklet with information on visas, immigration laws, persian recipes, 
schools, health benefits for 65+ elderly, etc etc etc, with the
proceeds going to the poor & needy  (like mack & i).

>
>Mojgan.
>
From: fardoun_a@cubldr.colorado.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Khomainie's Tomb Exploded
Date: 15 Oct 92 23:12:07 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder

In article <saied.719013615@cwis>, saied@cwis.unomaha.edu (Saied*) writes:
 
>>Brad Hernlem (hernlem@chess.ncsu.EDU)
> 
> Here are several items for you, Brad:
> 
> * First, you broke the code: it is "Monafeqin" not "Mojahedin."
>   You may make akhound upset if you break codes.
you broke the code too, it is not just akhound, it is most of the people call
them monafeqin.

> Be honest and tell us Brad, why is that you keep rushing to the
> defense of the backward, terrorist regime? Why is that the
> explosion in Khomeini's tomb- the person who has been hated by
> the world- makes you so furious?

too many people in the world were hated at different times by the masses
to refresh your washed memory
Imam Ali was hated by the masses in damascus at that time
the same with Imam hussien.  History shows that some scientist were hated and
killed because of their beliefs.  To be hated by the monafeqin and their boss
saddam and others like them, is not necessarly bad. 
> 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: sassan@locus.com (Sassan Behzadi)
Subject: Re: Seyyed's view of exiles
Organization: Locus Computing Corp, Los Angeles
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 02:50:05 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.142516.25982@wuecl.wustl.edu> seyyed@wuee1.wustl.edu (Seyyed Mahdavian) writes:
>
>Farshid, you and lots of other people, are always welcome back to your country.
>Just stop mocking people, and don't get involved in political issues. 
>Keep your opinion for yourself. How do you know, maybe you are really wrong! 
>Don't destroy all the bridges behind yourself. 
>Stick to your field of knowledge and try to build your country. 
>Look, your country will not be built by accusing
>its political leadership and insulting them in a foreign country. Don't choose
>the easy way of just "objecting". Go to your country, and try to deal with
>real problems, and try to be positive.
>
>Seyyed.

This is a classic! I knew people believed in this kind of thing, 
but I never thought anyone would ever publicly admit it.

So, to summerize, you are WARNING Iranians to:

	1) Not mock each other
	2) Not get involved in politics
	3) Keep their opinions to themselves
	4) Not critisize their leaders
	5) Stick to their field of knowledge

You know, I always wanted to be ruled-over by people like you. 
I think all Iranians share this feeling with me. In closing let 
me thank you for letting us breath (I know we don't deserve it). 

--Sassan


--------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Sassan Behzadi 
sassan@locus.com 
Locus Computing Corporation, Los Angeles 
---------------------------------------------------------------------
From: farzin@apollo3.apollo3.ntt.JP (Farzin Mokhtarian)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Khomeini's tomb exploded
Date: 16 Oct 92 01:22:14 GMT
Organization: none



So far, I have not heard or read any confirmations of this from
any source other than MKO but, in my view, the western media
would want to report such an explosion, if it were true.
Has anyone? If so, please quote from that source.
          
 - Farzin
              
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari)
Subject: Mojaheadine spies say Iran bought 4 nuclear weapon.
Originator: sehari@class1.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa.
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 12:46:01 GMT

---
10/12 (DJ) Kazakhstan To Sell 4 Nuclear Weapons To Iran, Group Says

    WASHINGTON -AP- A leading Iranian opposition group said that the
former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan has agreed to sell four nuclear
weapons to Iran.
    According to Mohammed Mohaddesin, director of international
relations for the People's Mujahedeen, the group's agents inside Iran
discovered that the warheads have been paid for but not delivered.
    Kazakhstan's prime minister, Sergei Tereschenko, pledged on a visit
to Israel Sept. 7 that his country would sell none of the nuclear
weapons it inherited upon the breakup of the Soviet Union.
    Kazakhstan, the largest of the newly independent Muslim republics of
Central Asia, is one of four former Soviet states with nuclear weapons
of the Soviet Union left on its soil.
    Mohaddesin said in a statement, ''in attempting to acquire nuclear
weapons, the mullahs pursue no objective but to export their religious
fundamentalism.''
    He said the Islamic Republic of Iran's defense minister, Akbar
Torkan visited Kazakhstan in July to finalize the warhead deal.
    In a column published today in The Washington Post, Rowland Evans
and Robert Novak said the Mujahedeen report ''matches U.S. intelligence
reports received several weeks ago.''
    The columnists quoted Bush administration officials as saying that
the deal might have been concluded by out-of-control Russian military
elements.
    The State Department was closed for the Columbus Day holiday.  But
one official, who requested anonymity, said from home that a claim
similar to the Mujahedeen's had been made earlier this year and U.S.
officials had not been able to confirm it.  The official would not
comment on the current report.
    Another official cautioned that the Mujahedeen has a stake in any
report which makes the fundamentalist Muslim leaders of Iran look bad.
    However, the opposition group, which is based in Iraq and maintains
a substantial lobbying office in Washington, has provided accurate
information on Iranian nuclear activities in the past.
     1:41 PM
                                 -END-

--
From: behrooz@egr.msu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: No you are certainly not alone (Was: Re: Use of Foul Language)
Date: 15 Oct 92 16:47:43 GMT
Reply-To: behrooz@egr.msu.edu ()
Organization: Michigan State University
Originator: behrooz@indian.cps.msu.edu

In article <BvvB3A.qr@encore.com> samiri@encore.com (Soheila Amiri) writes:
>
>If you've been around most likely you'll remember this is nothing new.
>Many others before myself, Mahin and Naghmeh after myself and many others
>after them have been and will continue to be insulted in this fashion,
>however unfortunate that is.  The only consolation I take having been
>the target of these attacks is the fact that in every single instance,
>when you consider the SOURCE of the insults and attacks, it really speaks
		       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>for itself.  It is alomst always a true reflection of the character of
>the attacker.
>
>Soheila

 This reminds me of a Philosophy class I had some years ago.
 There was this Greek Philosopher (forgot the name) who said what should
 someone's response be if insulted. He said that you basically get
 insulted if you care about the opinion of your attacker.  If someone
 comes up to you and says "you are one bastard", if you care about his
 opinion of you, you'll get insulted because you care.  If, on the other
 hand, you don't care about that person's opinion of you, you will not
 take his attacks as insult.  It is like you are walking in the
 neighborhood and a dog starts barking at you from behind the fence. You
 don't take that as an insult. After all, you don't care what the dog
 thinks of you.

 Now, could this be the reason A LOT of people have kept quiet on this,
 or is it because they beleive in the Persian phrase "javAbe Ablahan
 khAmooshist"?
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: smortaz@handel.Eng.Sun.COM (Shahrokh Mortazavi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Monty Hall Paradox (was Re: Physics-1A Question)
Date: 12 Oct 92 19:26:36 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, CA  USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: handel

seyyed writes:

>>It depends on how you run the simulation. By "equiprobable assumption" you
>>probably mean that the first choice is done with equal probability. We have
>>no problem here. The trick of the problem is somewhere else. The question

>>is: AFTER the first choice, how do you pick from the other remaining two?
>>Do you do a WISE choice, i.e. you know which box is empty and deliberately
>>choose it, or do you just pick one of them and it happens that it is empty.

the puzzle, as stated a bezillion times, says that the host opens
another door, showing you that its empty.  obviously this implies the
host knows where the prize is.  you know, its faaaaaaar easier to say:
whoops, i made a humanly mistake (like the rest of us mortals do on
a regular basis), than to struggle in bad form tyring to justify your
incorrect answer.  the whole world is aware of what youre trying to do.  

>>Now if you want, I can tell you how to run a simulation based on the second
>>strategy to obtain 1/2 to 1/2 odds.

pls do.  and oh yeah, tell us how this newly synthesized puzzle (designed
to get you off the hook), could have possibly been interpreted from the
original version.

>>Seyyed.

reza modarres writes:

>   Mr. Seyyed,
>
>     The answer came to me in my sleep last night. I think "you are right"
>     is the correct answer to this problem.  

haahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahaah!  i _cannot_ stop laughing reza!!!  

>	Try it! Everyone will agree with you.
>
>RezA
From: moussavi@hplred.HP.COM (Farshid Moussavi)
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 01:06:39 GMT
Subject: Seyyed's view of exiles
Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian

In Article 13612 in soc.culture.iranian seyyed@wuee1.wustl.edu (Seyyed Mahdavian) writes:

>I understood that your knowledge is about 50-100 Sh (Sh is the smallest unit of
>knowledge, after the great contempory mathematician and Farsi expert, ostAd
>Shahrokh Mortazavi). That's a good figure I'd say, compared to what others
>become after they suffer being in exile.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

People are in exile because great thinkers like you rule the country.  Of 
course, the kind of knowledge you are referring to is not available to them 
here, You can find it only in Iran in the world famous Seyyed University, where
they teach rape of female opponents and summary executions without trial
of people who think the "wrong way". So in that respect, I share your view 
completely.  Thank God your being in this strange land hasn't decreased your 
"knowledge" to our level!  

You have quite a nerve making fun of people who love their country and were 
forced to leave.  They ran away from your tyranny, and they certainly won't put 
up with it here. All these years Iranian kids worked in restauraunts 30 hours a
week and put themselves through school, and built up a massive debt, and the
countryless IR wouldn't even acknowledge them as students!  Whether you like it
or not, it is our country too.  


Agha Javad
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: mnejat@telesoft.com (Mehregan Nejat @lone)
Subject: Re: purpose of life
Organization: TeleSoft, San Diego, CA, USA
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 00:01:06 GMT

Is to find out what is purpose of life.

--Mehregan Nejat
From: 79319@novell1.rz.fht-mannheim.de (Hoangquoc-Aninformatik)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: kljjbjjj
Date: 9 Oct 92 09:47:34 GMT
Organization: Fachhochschule fuer Technik Mannheim

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From: vforo@ecst.csuchico.edu (ROMIN)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Konar, Khuzistan and a quiz
Date: 10 Oct 92 08:12:18 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
NNTP-Posting-Host: cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu


>In article <1992Oct6.043437.12129@netcom.com> bavafa@netcom.com (Hooshyar Naraghi) writes:
>
>Hello,
>
>Konar is not zAl-zAlak.  They are different fruits.  Infact, I remember that 
>Tehranis didn't know what Konar is and once I give some konar to my friends 
>in Tehran and they didn't like the taste.  Perhaps, they weren't used to such
>taste.  The konar subject reminds me of my childhood where we always became 
>excited seeing a konar tree and then collecting a handfull of konars with 
>our shirts!!!!  And eating them with pleasure :-)

Does anybody know what's Lam-Leegh?
This one is truly a Khuzestanain kind of fruit which I enjoyed the most. 
Although, I remember the Toot and Konar trees in my father house, and those
honey bees every fall making the best honey over the Konar tree.
	And the best way to bring down Konar is to send some one up the
tree and some one under the tree with a Chador. the person up in the tree
Sheks the tree and we have Konars falling in the Chador! Anybody remember
doing this?

ROMIN
From: smortaz@handel.Eng.Sun.COM (Shahrokh Mortazavi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Mahin khAnoum roush nemisheh!
Date: 12 Oct 92 23:08:43 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, CA  USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: handel

In article <1992Oct8.181240.11239@sun1x.actc.res.utc.com> ali@utrcv1 (ALI BABA) writes:

>Dear Behzad;

>Baba ghYsar khane shoma kotah beyaied
>Since you know the word and like Mahin alot, do mahin a favor and  take the
>job, even though the name is awful but the money is wonderful.
>By the way, after two hours of meeting with Amoo and Sogoly last night at
>ghahvah khaneh, Amoo agreed to let Mahin  who left Iran at a young age
>and never got to have a good taste of Iranian men and their (gooshty logic)
>to come and entertain at the ghahveh khaneh on Saturday and Sunday nights,
>unfortunately not on  Friday night because according to Sogholi's belief
>and the old legend Iranian men's (ghooshti logic) gets more aggresive and
>dangerous on (shabeh joomeh) and that's not going to be a pleasant for
>Mahin's first Iranian close encounter.
>After another meeting with Agha javad, he agreed to let us use his sign.
>we will be hanging a red computerized sign on (drabe shomaly ghahvah
>khoneh)
>saying "Khanoom rashti reseed" oops! sorry guys, "Brenje rashti reseed"
>So join us this saturday and sunday night at Amoo's Ghahvah Khaneheh where
>Mahin will try to tame Mashe ghafoor's 12" ghooshti logic using Einstein's
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>law. We are all sure she will have a happy life and won't feel like (torshi
>baademjoon) after her first Iranian close encounter.
>P.S.
>Due to aid disease, bring your own (baadkoonek) for protection and
>Use the back-door as an emergency door in case of police raids or
>Sogholi's arrival.

can someone please explain to me why certain people (babak, seyed,
ali baba, etc), have to resort to sexual slurrs 
to get their points across?  will someone with a psychology
degree psychoanalyze this mysterious decease? 

come one guys, sci functions best as a public forum, not as an extension 
of your penises.

>
>                    ************************************************
>                    * ALI BABA, not a legend, but the shining      *
>                    *       star of the 1996 olmpic                *
			     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

yeah, maybe the "Special Olympics".


>                    * **********************************************
>
From: smortaz@handel.Eng.Sun.COM (Shahrokh Mortazavi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Khuzestan, shooshtaree 101
Date: 14 Oct 1992 07:41:16 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, CA  USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: handel

In article <1992Oct13.114813.1@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu> desert@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu (Desert Man...) writes:
>
>Shahrokh AghA salam... 

salaam be rooye maahet ali khan!  whoops, i better stop or zafar khaan
will get on my case!

> And hope all is well...

couldnt be better...

>.... But a couple of them needed to be slightly corrected... :)

youre right, i gave a few wrong answers.  im rather shocked why our
literary police boy hasnt jumped on my case... guess hes still busy
creating new puzzles and having discussions on the net with himself.

>> harrysa - isnt that the first level of a zeer zameen?

>Nope...! Harrysa means: Haleem with sarSheer on top! :) Similar to Oat meal! :)

oh god, dont say haleem sarsheer!  im drooling like a pavlovian doooog!

i was thinking ahead to 'shavaadoon', trying hard to remember the
name of the first level of zeerzameen and screwed up.  the word i was
searching for was, are you ready???  shabestoon!  (which after a few
more steps led to the shavaadoon). 

>>    peteghejghej	(ghe, pronounced as 'r' in french, j as j in jaapon) 
>
>Hahahaha! I know it but can't come up with the word for it!  :)  I know it has
>to do with pett (nose)... :)

peteghejghej is tough to describe.  it translates very roughly to 
the act of intentional procrastination, or 'een dast oon dast kardan'.
used as in: 'pa a-che egh-ze pete-ghej-ghej-e koni ossaa!'  is this the
sweetest dialect or what???  it sounds better than french!

you got all the rest correctly!  your prize: one se-pestoon.  make it two,
one somehow doesnt feel right.

>... (these terms are too funny to translate, you do realize that?)  :)

absolutely.  shooshtaree & dezfoolee are both very picteresque and 
.... tounges (cant think of the exact word).  for example, take the word
ghel-gheleep.  what do you think it means?  heres a hint: it represent
a certain sound.

[ theme to jeapordy here...... ding! ]

it represents the sound created when something falls into the water, like
a stone.  if pronounced it quickly, it sounds just like it...

>>    teer-fereng
>
>This is an interesting item made by the kids... A ``V'' shape piece of wood is
>found, then elastic substances (rubber, etc.) are tighten on both edges of the
>V - Wood... stones, etc. are used as ``teers''! :)   This is called: Teer-KamAn.
you got it!  100 narrow gods (sad bareek allahs) for you.  



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