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Afghan Boy In Plastic Messi Jersey Becomes Internet Star

Jaghori (Afghanistan) (AFP) - A five-year-old Afghan boy living in an insurgency-prone area has become an online sensation after pictures of him dressed in an improvised Lionel Messi jersey – made out of a plastic bag – went viral.

Murtaza Ahmadi idolises the Argentine soccer star but a jersey of his favourite player is beyond the means of his poor family in rural Ghazni province southwest of Kabul.

His elder brother Homayoun, 15, made him the plastic shirt with Messi’s named scrawled in marker pen and posted the photos of Murtaza wearing it on Facebook two weeks ago.

“Our neighbour had thrown away grocery bags and Murtaza brought me one to make a Messi jersey,” Homayoun, a high school student and himself a FC Barcelona fan, told AFP.

Jorge Messi, Lionel’s father, told AFP the footballer was aware of the photos that made waves on social media and “wants to do something” for his young fan.

Murtaza, whose father admitted he could not afford to buy him a replica jersey, said he only had a punctured ball to play with in his village in Taliban-infested Ghazni.

“We do not have a football playground near our house and the only ball I have is punctured,” Murtaza told AFP.

“I love Messi, he plays really well, and I love the shirt my brother made for me.”

Kicking the deflated football in his snow-covered village, he added: “I want to be like Messi when I grow up.”

Mohammad Arif Ahmadi, his father who works as a farmer, said he hopes that his son turns into a great football player one day.

“I want my son to become the Messi of Afghanistan,” he told AFP.

“Murtaza wants to meet Lionel Messi in person one day. He asked me to buy him a jersey but I cannot afford it,” Ahmadi, a father of six, said.

When his photos were first posted, Internet users scrambled to identify the boy and it was initially claimed he was an Iraqi Kurd.

But Murtaza’s uncle Azim Ahmadi, who lives in Australia, revealed to the media that his nephew was the unwitting star of the story.

His father only learned about Murtaza’s newfound fame from relatives when he recently visited Kabul for medical treatment.

You can watch clips of Murtaza in the video below: 

if my son cheats on his girlfriend ima smack the shit out of him and send the girl a sephora giftcard.

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Things to do for your Parents this Ramadan

[And always]

Help cook iftar (or cook for them)

Clean the house

Bake something they love for iftar

Wake up early to make them suhoor

Read Quran to them

Do the laundry and ironing

Surprise them with flowers or a small gift they love

Invite them to your own iftar gatherings

Do the dishes for suhoor & iftar

Write them a card of appreciation

Give them a massage

Be on top of house hold chores

Spend time with them in general - reading, talking, walking, etc.

Pray with them

Give them your company while they do the things they enjoy (even if you don’t enjoy it)

Create a mini “vacation” for them

Ask them about their childhood and upbringing

Work hard in school

Do yard work

Show them love around your friends or in public

Serve them in your home

Compliment your parents often

Hug and kiss them often

Always say thank you

Ask for advice and their opinion on things going on in your life

Tell them about what is going on in your life (with your friends, school, work, etc.)

Always say salam to them

Tell them where you’re going and text them when you think you’ll be home when you’re out

Spend more nights with them

Hold your anger/impatience always

Listen to Islamic lectures with them

Ask if they need anything

Wash their cars

Help with groceries

If they repeat the same story or comment, do not get annoyed - simply listen

Offer to drive them places

Share your favorite ayah or surah with them

Make dua for them often, especially in taraweeh

Ask them to teach you Quran or about hadiths they know of

Answer their requests immediately

Don’t text while you’re with them

Help them with technology or anything else they have questions about

Make sure they have been to the doctors recently

Kiss their hands

This guy is practicing smoke bending …LOL

A note found in a Syrian boy’s diary:

“When the war is over in my country, we will close Syria’s doors and we will put a banner that says: (No Entry). We will shed tears of joy alone, just like how we suffered our grief alone.”

I love the way the raindrops sit on the petals of these beauties as if tragic cant be beautiful just you and me.