Many years ago I went for the operation of my younger brother Javed Sahib (late) whose two valves were blocked. One day I was taking some stuff to the ward when a child stopped me and requested that i should pray for his father who was admitted in the hospital because of heart attack. Hospital is such a place where all the people have same problems and issues. So for this common behaviour and human sympathy I went with that child and when I reached his father’s bed, i saw a tall bearded aged person who was lying with his eyes closed. The child said salaam to the patient with a lot of respect and told him that he had brought me for praying for his health. The old man was very happy and sat up on the bed. So out of due respect, I started to pray for him. Both father and son kept on saying amen on my prayers with a lot of devotion. When the prayer ended, the old person asked me with a lot of respect that what the purpose of me coming to the hospital is. I told him that I am here for the operation of my youngest brother whose two valves of hearts were blocked and i was here for a few days from Multan for this reason. He not only prayed for us but also offered to help any kind of cooperation that we might require. For which i thanked himand told him if such a situation arises I will definitely ask for their help
The story of my pride
His son brought a drink which I accepted with thanks and during that while introducing himself that, ‘Maulana! How you are seeing me is just because of extreme affection and blessing from Allah. Otherwise my past had been very dirty. As you can see my physical appearance and my height and I was a notorious hooligan whose terror was spread all over the city. People were scared to even pass by me. I used to be very happy because of this pressure that I had on other people. One day while passing through the bazaar I saw an old and weak person who was taking his steps very slowly. Ithoughtof a nasty thing and bumped my shoulder into him; he lost his balance and fell on the ground. And in spite of a lot of efforts couldn’t get up. I laughed vigorously and had no guilt over his situation or wounds. When the old guy saw me he looked at the sky in helplessness; arequesting kind of way. Out of my pride I without taking any tension started to walk and after I left people lifted him.’
The penalty of teasing the old person:
As Ientered my house I had a heart attack and a brain stroke as well. I fell on the ground just like that old man. My children ran and lifted me up and laid meon the bed. They called the doctor who after checking me instantly recommended to the cardiac hospital. The staff at cardiac started my treatment and also advised us for prayers.
Next day i was shifted to the ward. I was lying on the bed when i felt that my lower part of the body was slipping from the bed and unless someone didn’t hold me I was going to fall on the floor. Infront of me was the nursing counter and staff was looking at me. I wanted to scream but my voice wasnot coming out of my mouth and I was continuously going down. When i saw the misery of mine,I remembered the old man who wanted to get up afterfalling but was unable to. At this momentI realised my mistake and Iinstantly prayed before my GO D and while asking for forgiveness i promised HIM that if my kind GOD will forgive me then i will not commit a sin again and I will never tease anyone else. May be it was a time of acceptance that GOD ALMIGHTY heard me and I was able to scream. As soon as the staff heard me screaming:‘help!Help!’ they came running and lifted me up and carefully laid me on the bed in properly and told me that we were thinking that you were trying to get off the bed thatis why we didn’tstop you.
After that i started to say my prayers regularly and by the grace of GOD i recovered in afew days. I was discharged from the hospital and after that the GOD ALMIGHTY totally changed my life. After a lot of years because of second attackI had to come here and that’s how Ihave met you. `
As long as he was admitted in the hospital i kept on meeting him then he was allowed to go but I had to stay in that hospital for a couple of days. But more I thought about the blessing of MY CREATOR, this thing became more clear to me that the CREATOR of the universe waits for us to come back and on the other side we are such people who have lust for the greed of World, forgotten HIM. And we don’t even recall that one day we have to present our self before HIM and then there will be no excuse for us and now is the time that we should make peace with our GOD and ask for his forgiveness, before the doors of repent close. May GOD open our closed eyes and give us the power to mind our ways. Amen
