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I've recently read that there is this somali creation myth that goes something like this:

''God created the white men and was quite pleased, then He created the black men and was also quite pleased and then He created the Somali and he laughed''

There is the story when the sayid M. A. Hassan fought the British that a wounded Somali staggered into the british held city of Hargeisa from a battle near by. He had a bullet wounds in his legs and spear in his stomach. The doctors examined him and decided that his legs needed urgent attention because it was goinggangrenous and pronouced they would operate on his legs first. 'NO, No, no' said the man, fix my stomach first. It hurts when I laugh'.

Maybe that somali sprit was what made god laugh.

I was thinking about something along these lines last night , wallahi for a people as "dhibaato" prone as we are , we tend to laugh quite a lot .

That is a funny story

@ my stomach hurts when am laughing


they were american soldiers during UNISON that converted to islam in mogadishu..their main reason was this pple are internally happy even though their life is misserable but they keep smiling and say Alhamdullilah whenever u asked how are they

actually its a good thing.shrug it off and laugh,if a white nation was tested like we do they would have killed themselves from suicide before famine and diaria gets them

SahanGalbeed wrote:I was thinking about something along these lines last night , wallahi for a people as "dhibaato" prone as we are , we tend to laugh quite a lot .

you know what they say 'laughter is the best medicine'