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BY  LOU MACABASCO Struggles and difficulties are part of life. You cannot avoid these problems; it will always arise no matter how much you try to take control or organize the things in your life. Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them. ~ Henry Ford

Your eyes are the key to your health and your soul. Your eye color is a genetic trait that is influenced by your parents’ genetic characteristics but does not necessarily conform to the regular patterns of genetics. A child’s eye color, therefore, cannot be speculated accurately prior to its birth. What is interesting to note here is that eye color is variable to a great extent. A few simple alterations in your dietary habits can yield you the perfect eye color that you have longed for.

Ibn Sina (Avicenna) (370-428 H) Abu `Ali Husain b. `Abdullah Ibn Sina, Balkhi, better known as Avicenna in the West, was the greatest of all medieval Muslim physicians. Also known as  Al-Shaykh Al-Ra’as , and celebrated in the Western world as ‘the father of modern medicine,’ his is the most illustrious name in Arabic medical history after al-Razi. While Al-Razi was more of a physician than Ibn Sina, Ibn Sina was more of a philosopher. The author of 450 books on a variety of subjects including Philosophy and Medicine, Ibn Sina had a direct impact on the intellectual rebirth of Europe. George Sarton considers him to be the most famous scientist of Islam and one of the most famous of all races, places and times. He was one in the famed quartet of Mu`tazilite scholars, others being Al-Kindi, Al-Farabi and Ibn Rushd. Of the first three, it is said that the harmonization of Greek philosophy with Islam begun by al-Kindi, an Arab, was continued by al-Farabi, a Turk, and completed in t