Food For Thought

 

NEVER LET THEM GO

Hina came back from London to Pakistan after 10 years. She has done her Post Graduation from Brunel University. Hina‘s parents is so happy to see her daughter is home as she is the only child of her parents. Hina wants to continue her career here in Pakistan by finding a suitable job for herself. As she had done her MSc in Media and Communication, so she applied for the job and she got employed in the most reputed channel of Pakistan.

One day while talking to her mother hina asked “Mama where is your old friend Ayesha? I haven’t seen her a long time ago. Had Ayesha Aunt visited our house after leaving this area?  Hina’s mother replied “I am very much worried about her. I really do not know where she is? When she leaves this area Ayesha promised me that INSHALLAH she will visit to our house. But beta she never came a single time here. ALLAH knows where she is. I always pray for her.

Next day when hina came home after her job. She looks very much stressed. When her mother asks her she cried a lot. Hina’s mother got a little bit worried, and then hina told her mother what happened why she is crying. She told her the reason that mama today my manager call me and assign a duty to me that I have to cover a program in edhi home. I got ready and reach there by time. I interviewed the caretaker of edhi home and I move on to those people who had gone through hard time. Parents, children of different ages living their just because their loved ones can’t take care of them, they can’t raise them or support them and suddenly I was shocked to see Ayesha Aunt sitting lonely there. For a minute my mind goes blind that what to say. It’s like words stuck into my mouth. My heart says that I am happy to see her, but the bitter side is that in what condition? Speechless I have seen her very much happy but now all the colors, shine vanished from her eyes. All I can see broken dreams just because their children left her in old age. I don’t know if she remembers me recognized me. But the only thing left which is emptiness in her eyes.

Moral: Never let them go gives us the moral that we all should love our parents respect them, give the comfort that they want from us in their old age. Our parents do anything for us when we were young. They watch over us in time of sickness, teach us the principles of life, and guard us from evil influences. When our parents get old they need our attention. Give them all the care they needed. Always remember when we get old the same thing if we have done with our parents will also repeat by our children. So try to finish this word old home from society.

Hadith: The reward of kindness to parents is so great that our beloved PROPHET MUHAMMAD (PBUH) recommended it in place of Jihad. It is narrated that a man came to the Prophet asking his permission to take part in Jihad. The Prophet asked him, "Are your parents alive?" He replied in the affirmative. The Prophet said to him, "Then exert yourself in their service." (Bukhari 4.248)