Al Sharq Newspaper interview with Mohammed Kazem Al-Ansari

Businessman Mohammed Kazem Al-Ansari a living example of a personal self-made, which made his way in determination and ambition, he tasted the difficulties of life since his childhood that led him to learn patience. His life is full of events, successes and failures, tasting the sweetness of life and the cruelty in the spirit of a sportsman.

Up in the fields of sport he became the first goalkeeper of Qatar Football Association and played in front of Brazilian Pele jewel. He also was a soldier of General Qatar Armed Forces, and received the honor of fighting for the Liberation of Palestine with two hundred volunteers to defend Palestine and to liberate it. He also had a starting point and reached the highest levels of success of commercial projects until he became commander of the Army civilian workers with more than one thousand and three hundred workers which he taught them discipline and love of work and self-denial and devotion to the service.

However it is very strict with defaulters and I follow in the great wisdom, "Do not be soft and not dried" .. During this journey of Ansari which injustice and anger betrayed partners did not prevent him to continue to walk and lost an incredible bargain reached in one million dollars when he broke into the investment in overseas and benefited from these lessons a lot.

He says I'm not coincidence to be a trader but I am from a family, who all are working in the trading sector, Mohammed Kazem has had a fleet of seven marine vessels and was transporting food between Iraq and the Gulf States who was pledging food for the garrison Ottoman existing that time in Qatar, he served on the shores of the Gulf and had a suite. There was a knock drums upon the arrival of his fleet to the shores of Qatar as they did re-entry of divers from diving. My grandfather was the agent of Sheikh Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani and Sheikh Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani in 1930.

As my uncle Hussein Mohammed Kazem was a medication dealer and has had several pharmacies in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, all specialization in the trading of medicines.

My greatest uncle Hassan Mohammed Kazem was a merchant of pearls and gold in Bahrain, he was an expert in valuing the pearls in Bahrain.

My youngest uncle Ismail Mohammed Kazem was a timber dealer in Saudi Arabia in Droll and Arar.

 Ali Al Wazzan my cousin was the Chairman of Bahrain Chamber of Commerce in the fifties, one of the law contributors to the boycott of Israel until then.

My cousin Abdullah bin Ibrahim Al Baker the leading merchants in the Baker family who extended trading between Qatar and the UAE, Bahrain and Cairo.

The cousins ​​Hashem and Ismail Sons Faraj Hashim Ansari They were trading in foodstuffs, fabrics and they were agents elders Gharafa Sheikh Jassim Bin Fahad Al Thani and Sheikh Thamer bin Mohammed Al Thani, and also my cousins ​​Mohammed and Ahmad sons of Abdul Rahman of time They were textile merchants, real estate, banking and they were agents, Sheikh Ahmed bin Ali Al-Thani, former Governor, with the father Mohammad Shafi Mohammed bin Rabi al-Ansari was a ship captain called Mkadim and his business was the sale and transfer of all types of goods, and also real estate and textiles.

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Ansari began his commercial truck pickpocket and then followed by another car to buy a piece of land from Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani, has achieved a return of God and the opening of rewarding him with a number of successful projects and has expanded its work to knock on the doors of real estate, trade and industry. With all of this says that the most beautiful days of my life are those days that bore much of the "Alrehg" but refused to extend my hand for help from my family better off in accordance with the advice of my father God bless his soul and pleasing to pride myself that led me to ward off the impossible victory.

In my childhood I passed three stages of the first phase was from a life of comfort, where my grandfather was the mercy of God and the Agent, Sheikh Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani and Sheikh Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani, the founder and chief people and that was in the thirties, which owns seven ships "to frigates," the seven flags brought when moored in the Gulf ports and carrying goods from Iraq to the Gulf and speaks Turkish rule it passed in ports of Turkey when the Ottoman Turks in control of the Gulf and when it reaches the mainland Qatar, people are racing to know whether Mohammed Kazem has arrived laden with goods or not, and in the time of times before I was eight years in the Senate and I got a woman said to me Do you know me I considered working with your grandfather and her name Hasina and her other name Atiyat was my grandfather's house in Al-Jasra where he bought a good half-square of the heirs. The father of three sons, Abdullah I and my brother and my sister victory.

She married my sister at an early age and my father was moving between Qatar and Saudi Arabia, where he was working in Aramco and my father died at the age of no more than 12 years and I relied on myself in everything and Audna my father that was not looking for help, although my family well off who could help me and assist me and I in desperately need help. And I was walking to school on foot, and the brightest in the schools of that time is Khalid bin Walid, Saladin, Qatar typical school, industrial, and seminary.

It was them compete in the representation and the ball and education and all forms of life and if you do not betray the memory has volunteered in 1967 with two hundred people of Qatar for the defense of the occupied territories in Palestine, and we were four Qataris, and a number of Palestinians, Arabs and Pakistanis, and actually gave us the state appropriate assistance and I was the day in the second year of junior high and traveled to Kuwait and then Iraq, and asked to enter Jordan and during those days gave the Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser resigned Vqdinma cable as power country and demanded the Egyptian president to refrain from resignation and the text of the telegram, "Qatari forces bound for the battlefield encourages you return to the presidential palace," We arrived to the area of ​​Jordan There was a corps military integrated while our own two hundred submachine gun English "Sterling" and a quantity of ammunition and prevented us from entering so we went to Syria and met leader Mohammed Abdullah al-Attiyah, Deputy Commander-in-country may God have mercy on him and the war had already ended in 1967 that defeat known and the order of Deputy Commander in Chief back to Doha.

Poses are important in my life I was a scout and a brilliant athlete and a representative and traveled for the first time with the Scouts to Egypt.

Due Ansari recalls to those difficult days when he died and his father was God's mercy and he was sick and sent for treatment at the expense of the government in Beirut and that was in 1955, and this feature of the mission of the State of Qatar, where interested in the state under the auspices of its citizens and stand by their side in all circumstances.

And remained there for more than seven years for treatment at the expense of the State. And I was visiting with my uncle Faraj Hashim to Sheikh Khalid Bin Hamad Al-Thani, the father of Sheikh Nasser bin Khaled found Nawaf bin Nasser Al Thani, and asked for the case of my father's health I told him that my father's patient did not see him for more than two years, he said to me we're going to Beirut tomorrow by plane and you can go with us and that was the trip the second I saw my father and then I went back to Doha and life was harsh and conditions are difficult and I had the opportunity I was a player an excellent Ahly was named "success" in the past and decided to manage the club documentary before Ikhtafna another team and already the administrator has me on when they were composition of the Union and gave me a club Arabism SR 200 to sign the contract and join the club of Arabism and intervention Ahli Club, and promise to provide housing with a salary of 45 riyals a month and I imagine it was a significant deal in that time and the schools were the disposal of our salaries to entice students to study.

What are the major successes achieved at this stage?
Praise be to God and helped me is to play with the civil and played for the team Qatar Football Association and the most famous player I played against him was Pele when he visited Doha Santos and the game was played Stadium Doha secondary and the public inside and outside the stadium, and played a strong game and we lost by three goals against a goal but it was a great achievement by virtue of that the Brazilian team visited several Arab countries and won many of them with ten goals and nine goals has not conceded a goal rarely came down the pitch to the public and carry the players on the neck.

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And permeated this stage, many problems where the sick and my mother and I went to meet with Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad, and was then crown prince, where he knew the family and the father and I told him that my mother is sick, he said to me Why did not you tell me before, and set me the opportunity to travel to Cairo for treatment and remained in Cairo for a year and died there and was There is one plane from Cairo to Beirut and Doha, and we face difficulties in transporting the body and you are young and advised me to colleagues and friends who are in the country office in Cairo to bury the body in Cairo is an Islamic country there is no problem with that and Uarinaha buried in Egypt and then went back to Doha. After this stage, decided to complete my studies at night and continue to work during the day and joined the Department of Customs Inspection Section and during this period completed high school and then came a chance for the nomination of officers Qataris to join the armed forces and was the first batch progress has about two hundred people from all families have been nominated within the 14 candidates were accepted to work wire the military and went to Jordan and returned to Qatar in 1972.

How was the transition from military to civilian life?
For me it was not difficult, I was a lover of sport and for the Scouts, which enabled me to overcome the difficulties that I faced as I was not a purely civilian, I was an athlete and a torch and the course was very severe, including qualified to enter the military.

After my years in the customs, as well as in the army was the same Tnazni constantly to work in the trade is in my blood so I decided to enter into this field.
My father was a merchant and my grandfather was a merchant transfers goods from the cities of Iraq and the Gulf in the winter and summer.

Complements Mr. Mohammed Kazem Al-Ansari says his speech:
- We were in trouble after an illness of my father where he had some land but grew on us the burden of life and we live in the case of austerity after the death of the mother increased the difficulties, however those were the days the most beautiful days of my life, I was free to do what I want and Qatar was at that time a small consistent kicking at night and meet of all the people you want to know each other, "and relations were robust even in your home Ttboukh know others and life was pretty easy and enjoyable."

In spite of that all people were as much as their experience but sympathy prevailing among them was able to overcome all the problems today with the development is no longer life as it was, and with the computer, civilization and the expansion of trade is no longer one cares about others as was the case at that time.

Was it sad when you left the military action?
Yes, I was saddened to leave the army I was working like a military action in order to defend my country and I hope to spend a lifetime in the service of my country and my passion but tempered army ml of business since the early and my family were mostly traders for many years.

What was the first deal in your life?
- Collected all what I had and I bought my first pickpocket and the first "Tanker" Water and the transfer of water from the important services at the time and after a time I suffered from complaints of drivers and frequent breakdowns cars, so I decided to sell both cars and buy the first piece of land and two days later someone came traders and told me about a piece of land that I bought with 72 alpha is sold to me at 75 and was a surprise for me, is it reasonable to Win a three thousand in two days is more than the salary of a full month, this is a dream, and after ten days I sold it to 90 thousand riyals and the profits of that process 18 000 riyals a salary of five months at once.

And I purchased a second piece of land from Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim and then bought a piece of another large but I have not succeeded in selling them and you divide them into several pieces and stayed with me for a long time and then you purchase a house of $ 700 thousand riyals, and surprised many of those deal and saw that the price is exaggerated and you carry out some reforms, and sold it at $ Excellent and finally developed into the work of the ceremony the first company in my life and expanded my business to a pharmacy, a beauty center and building materials, tiles and garments factory and recently entered the sector of advertising, as well as the transfer of the stones from Fujairah, this short features from the march.

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What is the most beautiful stage in your life .. Is the life of Kazem Al-Ansari Qatari national team goalkeeper or the soldier in the armed forces .. Or a successful businessman?
- If Jerni Return immediately to the childhood life is sweeter .. It is true that each phase of taste I have lived a hard life in my childhood, but sweet and I did not feel that I passed through a difficult period due to the sympathy of my father and mother.

I remember because I was always good exhibition of cars and dreams Tkhamrna bin owned this car or that remained in my mind these dreams to be achieved. These dreams were not just aspirations but I was working on the investigation and that there remained five years in Doha in the summer without traveling abroad like the rest of my family and my colleagues, although I loved to travel in order to focus myself and the composition of capital helps me to work.

Why do you criticize the youth of today in the world of money and business?
- Largest flaw in the young people today they set to work luxury offices, secretaries and office managers find them and two months after they lost all their possessions .. Office and luxury is important but not at the beginning of the road and time for everything, anytime.

How many children you have?
- Three girls and a boy .. Ameera ten years old, and Nasser nine Reem seven Mary four years and I love my kids too much to the point that some people blame me for Dla children as this may harm them and even my family Iehtbauna on it, and I am reminded of an incident funny about the son of my sister Nasser al-Ansari, a proxy Assistant, Ministry of Municipality today, and he was studying in America in the past .. During this stage gives you the card Deinerzklop to distract them and I need my sister and she said to me You are my son and will Coquet Tvsdh money and will not succeed in school and I told her I am sure and confident it .. The already completed his studies and succeeded in his studies and proved its existence to become responsible. Today, I tell them I Dlat Nasser large and became Assistant Deputy Minister Nasser Al Adla Khalouni small and Nchov "ish it becomes."

Love of children above all else but in a way, "Do not be so dry and do not be Vteixr Lena Vtasr" .. Life evolved on the parents beat their children and sports were banned and out of the foreclosed home and a strange transformation took place today in this world life is no longer as simple as it was in the past.

Do you like to travel?
- Very .. Very much

How a country you visited in your life?
- Did not leave the state and Ozarha not captivate me the most beautiful city in Spain and our educators are located in the south of Spain, nor distinguish between Gulf cities are all my own.

Have you suffered heavy financial losses in your life as well as its success?
- Trade profit and loss and need to be strong heart and the heart strong misses and wounds and tell you that any work I do outside my fate Losing In 1975 opened the largest bakery in the city of Dsendolp in Germany which is close to Belgium and had the bakery "full auto for the production of Arabic bread," and, unfortunately, that any does not supervise the work of your own fate and the loss of my partners had manipulated the amount lost and the whole deal, and opened a center in Bahrain and perfume capital of the million dollars and because of my long relied on for the second time my partner let me down and lost my partner and I went back to the place I sell dirt cheap.

And opened a garment factory in Jordan ready and also lost 80% of my capital, and so I like is prohibited from investing abroad In contrast, very lucky in my investments of the Interior.

And works on 1016 factor with me and built their camp staying and controls strictly at the time of work and leisure time and the language of the army of these more than two battalions are working under the escort of the inspectors and the specific responsibilities of each individual and important feature of working with me they are committed by nature and do not need to of Itapahm always, do not tend into account the principle of punishment, but all procedures are the principle of cooperation, tolerance and live at peace.

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How do you choose who works with you?
- I'm at work is very strong and military life taught me that Faalanillat an essential part in all my work and start to work in all corporatist in six in the evening and close in late Although the official working hours end up in the ninth, but from their love of action falling back until the eleventh by working conditions.

Some of them spent with me 17 years to 20 years, all one family and over who worked with me helped them in marriage and in many occasions and stood
With them .. Of the defect to say I did that, but each interview occasion imposed in some cases.

What do you think of family businesses?
- Different life in this time is no longer as it was in the past and when you grew up family businesses do not the parents disagree on the financial interests never Fastmdt family business strength from the strength of the social fabric of the dominant and today different life and become the financial interests control the movements of people and determine their position in some cases may even force upon things that do not like it, but circumstances force them out of work and all this is in the box, the challenges facing family businesses.

For me, I did not participate any person in Doha, not my brother or sister does not close, many people tried to enter with me as partners and rejected .. I told them we are brothers and loved ones, and if we took part in a business difference will happen .. I can offer them advice in the business, but the partnership does not work .. Entered into a partnership with foreigners abroad and lost a lot of them.

What is your favorite hobby?
- Travel is the nicest hobbies .. Nothing Ashrna such as travel I visited most of the world got to know the people I saw 99% of the world, whether working days in the military or in the work or through my work as secretary executive of the Liaison Committee to sport the military in the Middle East and comprises the 22 countries in its membership and has allowed me that period to identify many of the countries.

If given the choice between Chief of Staff in the military.. Or a large business what you choose?
- If I was youngI would choose the military, today I will not accept an alternative to personal business man, age determines these positions.

Is the military today, more easy than it was twenty years ago?
- Life today has become more difficult, but easier to military and military action in the past was difficult and the opposite of life and each time circumstances and demands.
During my military training, and then moved to the commander of Transport and then to the commander of the supply, processing and retired brigadier general.

A final word...

- Exposed to the injustice of the closest people to me but my faith in God Protected Me and the ability to set me firm on principle and bear hardships and lived my life did not have any grudge against the person never in all circumstances.

Acts of charity you've made?
- I wanted to have me excused from this question, but the recommendation of the Zakat money and you charity work such as construction of a large mosque in India and another mosque in Egypt in the tenth of Ramadan and built clinics and homes for the memorization of the Koran in Pakistan, Sudan and homes for the elderly ..

Who are the people who have the fingerprints in your life?
- At the forefront of those of His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the Emir, HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa has served under their command in the military and lived within the confines of my cousins ​​Faraj Hashim Ansari The Undersecretary Sheikh Khaled Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Thani, and my uncles Muhammad and Ahmad sons Abdulrahman time they Agents Sheikh Ahmed bin Ali Al Thani, Qatar's ruler, former .. Ishmael and the sons of my cousins ​​and sons of Hashim Hashim Faraj Abdullah Ansari Agents and Thamer, Jassim Al-Thani and Fahad ..

He was Mohammad Shafi is the master of a ship called "Mkadim" and my uncle Hussein Kadhim dealer medicines known and well-Kazim, an official gold jewelery and expert pricing of pearls in Bahrain and Ismail Kazem, a trader in the area of ​​Khamis Saudi Arabia was to those reported impact also in my life

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