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Salam Everybody,


What about telling everybody the meaning of your Pseudo, why or how you came to choose your nickname ?

Mine is simply my first name

Hi Hicham,

Why did I choose my pseudo? hmmm let me think...lol, of course it doesn't need any thinking. I'm a huge fan of Minnie, she's my favourite Disney character. She's got a vibrant and strong personality and poor Mickey would always go through hell to save her I know I never really grew up, I still have my minnie teddy bear and my coffe mug has got Minnie's picture on it

well...don't grow up it's a big mistake, at least you won't have to pay taxes....

looool, if only! I've been paying them in the last 6 years!! thinking about it, i should maybe take them to court for child's rights abuse!

why not, or go for a hunger strike, limited in time it's better... anyway Ramadan is in less than 3 months .......

To go back to our topic, i didn't explain the meaning of my nickname (which happens to be my first name)

Hicham means generosity. originnally the verb 'Hach-chama' in Arabic means to break into small pieces and the ancestor of the prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was called "Haachem" because he used to break bread into pieces for the poor.. the word "hacheem" means both broken into small pieces ( as in sourat alKahf-the grave) and generous (see mounjid Toullab) ..

Correct me if i'm wrong, ...

Oh that's interesting! I must admit, i never thought about the explanation for this name. It's got a nice meaning though.

I don't think anyone will correct you. It's clear that you invested hard (mounjid toullab loool) in finding the right explanation

Well, MinnieMouse i saw the explanation in mounjid toulab more than 15 years ago ... though you can still check this diccionary in the pre-history Meuseum..........

hello everybody...

Thank u Hicham for this nice topic.

My name is Safia , that means " Pure" in Arabic , it s an adjective--- So my pseudo name "Safa" is just The name ( Purity ) ...

Many people say that is an original name ..And i think it s a soft name.

But usually they hear " Sofia Not SAFIA " ...so i always have to SAY : it s S A F I A , With A

indeed, it's a nice name, the jewish wife of the prophet (pbuh) was called safia, she reverted to islam off course after marriage. there's a story that says that before marrying her first husband she dreamt of seizing the moon in her lap, when she told the story to her father who was one a rabbi he slapped her violently and said something like : do you dream of marrying the prophet of the arabs ??

You all have nice stories linked to your names, that's not fair!!!! (

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indeed, it's a nice name, the jewish wife of the prophet (pbuh) was called safia, she reverted to islam off course after marriage. there's a story that says that before marrying her first husband she dreamt of seizing the moon in her lap, when she told the story to her father who was one a rabbi he slapped her violently and said something like : do you dream of marrying the prophet of the arabs ??

i wanted to notice it but i forgot , so Thank for the information.

Stay in peace

hi MinnieMouse,


there is a lot of stories linked to your nickname, though of a different range, we can find a nice one if you would like to ...

That's so sweet!! thanks Hicham. Yes i'd love to if you can find anyone lol

hi minniemouse, here is a story about a mouse, hope u like it


The rat, the cat and the hunter
friendship with an enemy is a temporary affair



Once upon a time, there lived an owl in a big banyan tree. A mouse, a cat and a mongoose also shared his neighbourhood. They all feared each other. The owl was scared of the cat. The mouse would be frightened to see the owl, the cat or the mongoose. The owl and the cat were the enemies of the mongoose. But despite all these problems, all of them continued living at the same place.

Once a hunter came under the banyan tree. He spread his snare there and waited at a distance for some animal to be trapped in. After sometime, the cat came there looking for the mouse. She stepped on the snare and got trapped. Seeing the cat in the net the mouse became happy and came out of his hole and began taking rounds of the trap in great joy.

Seeing the rat dancing outside his hole, the owl and the mongoose began to look at him with greedy eyes. The rat got frightened. 'The owl and the mongoose would surely kill me and eat me', thought the rat to himself. Also there were no chances for him to re-enter his hole, as both of his enemies were very near him.

The rat became nervous. He had to take a quick decision anyhow, lest he should be killed by the owl or the mongoose. At this dangerous stage, there was but one hope of survival, that he entered the trap and sat beside the cat and then request her to spare his life. If the cat did so, he would as a matter of his gratitude, nibble at the net at a hundred places to make it loose enough to set the cat free.

The rat took the chance of his life and ran into the trap beside the cat. The cat was about to pounce upon him, when he said to her, "Please don't kill me. If you spare my life, I'll bite off the trap at a number of places to set you free."

The cat agreed to the proposal of the rat and let him remain inside the net. Seeing the rat and the mouse together, the owl and the mongoose went away.

Then the mouse nibbled at the net at a hundred places. The cat came out of the trap and ran away into the dense forest. So did the mouse. He too ran into his hole.

The next day, when the cat wanted to meet the mouse, the mouse refused saying that enemies will be enemies; everything else like friendship between them will just be a temporary affair.

Thank you Hicham for the story, I enjoyed reading it, especially as they made the mouse look so clever lool. Never underestimate a creature just because it's tiny. It's not all in the muscles

Not at all MinnieMouse, if you look for Kalilah and Dimnah, there's plenty of stories about animals in general, it is so rich ....

Mine concerns Brazil and its mythic sugar loaf.

ummm, why? i dont know, my nickname means "the mask" in french...

i loved Jim Carrey's movie... but i dont think that it's really the objective behind my choice. but it gives a humorous aspect to my character.

i use this nickname in multiplayer video games, and people are funny with me. they see my nickname and think "ah, here is a funny person." so even when i shoot at a friend, he doesnt get mad and he asks me to "stop joking around."... and when another player does the same, he gets angry and screams "you morooooon! stop shooting your team mates and aim towards the enemy... what a retard..."

but anyway, it's maybe thanks to my ubber skills... i'm good when it comes to team work, i'm a natural leader in war games (when there is smart players)...

but what i really like in the nickname would be ... somekind of image about life, we all wear a mask following the situation.
we meet so many different people... that we cant be always natural, we always have to adapt to the person in front of us, to not hurt or something...

so, we are never natural... and it never works when you are natural...

Thank you for the post LeMask

You are exactly right, we all wear Mask depending on situations, it is somehow natural... i don't mean hypocrisy but the fact that one can not be himself everywhre, there is always a part or some parts of us which stay hidden ..............hope i'm clear

and yes Hicham_A, and you can push it further...

if you show your real face... people will punish you. they will hate you.

you tell a friend that smoking is bad and that he could get sick because of that, and he will hate you...
even if he knows that what you said is true.

like if we were lying to ourselves aswell... anyway, i dont want to go to far in this...

and i call that hypocrisy... but hypocrisy is a terrible word nowadays... while i think that i'm an hypocrite, and that we are all hypocrite. call it being polite or civilized... i see no difference...

what i wanted to say is that we don't have the possibility to know people we meet very well because of a lot of things... apart from people with whom we live on a daily basis, at work, only our "professional profile" is exposed, while practicing sport we show our physical and maybe technical abilities etc,...

yes indeed ^^

you can cut a character into his professional side and family side, etc...

you know, the Japenese take work very seriously, like a second religion.
in fact, they have a second family. their coworkers are like family for them...
like if they were living in two worlds, the world of family and the world of work... and they dont like to mix them too much...

anyway, i wont add more, i dont want to say something false...

next nickname please... ^^ the analysis team is ready...

i am a princess

why not, you can be the queen even if you'd like to ...

you should have been really sherished by your parents ?

come on man, dont take it too seriously ^^

and every woman is a princess/queen...

My poor old dog, a lurcher is actually a cross between any two hounds, but mine was 99% greyhound. He died at the grand old age of 14 (ancient for a greyhound) a few weeks ago, when we left him with friends whilst we went to Morocco. Sad to come home to no friendly welcome!

Hi All

Well, mine is easy Atlas is the mountains & the magic as i love this part & i'am found of its magic

Sure The atlas moutains are magic;

What part or part of the atlas mountains do you like most ?

Hicham _A

I love the High Atlas ,Toubkal National park ,Ouirgane ,Imlil ..........
Its where i unwind ,relax ,breath & find life & the real Morocco i love so much ..........