What I saw, heard and thought
SOBBING FUMING DESIRES…..& MONEY
From the Editor’s desk
ANewly-wed
bride wrote a letter to her husband who was working in a foreign
country. She wrote, “Dear Husband. Money can be earned at any age; youth
lasts for few days and it passes quickly. Will I wait for you for years
and line my hair with silver? Will I rub the bright henna from my
hands? Should I take off my anklet and keep it for my daughter to wear
as my age is passing? The tinkling of anklets seems nice only in youth.
Should I lock the wishes and hopes of my youth at some place? I have
loved you with my eyes; your words spread sweetness in my ears; your
smile frees me from the fatigue of the domestic chores. Will these
feelings be satisfied by your photo? No! Dear husband; not at all.
Please come back. I am ok with hunger; I am ok with old clothes but this
youth& your children need your presence. These feelings need your
support. I have waited a lot; do not make me wait any more.”
Readers!
While writing these words down, I am tear-eyed. Whenever such lives
approach me, I writhe. My inner Hakeem Tariq screams, why? That live
will end up sobbing&smoldering for the attainment of assets, wealth
and money. Are assets, wealth and money everything? A woman was
accompanied by her 19-year old daughter and telling that it’s her
engagement ceremony & her father has promised to send her the
engagement present. I was pregnant with her when her father left for
Italy & hasn’t returned since then. I have heard he re-married
there. This is how his life passed & I have aged waiting to hear his
knock. She was sobbing. Then she handed over a paper to me in private
on which her sins were mentioned, the sole responsibility of which goes
to her husband. Will his dollars, pounds, euros, dirhams, dinars, riyals
free him from his wife’s accountability on the Day of Judgment? Will he
be relieved? Definitely not! A woman shared that my son has turned 8.
His father went to Cyprus few months before his birth and never
returned. My son has seen his father’s picture through net & vice
versa; they have not seen each other physically. My son says when I go
to school, my friends say that our fathers come & meet the principal
and the teachers; your father never come to drop you; don’t you have a
father? I am tired of giving explanations to my class-fellows; I do not
have a justification. What should I do? From where should I bring
justifications; I am fed-up. I do not have the source; who should I
question?
Readers! Astray
children is a reason for the wide-spread sins in the society but a major
reason is father-deprived children & husband-deprived wives. What
should she do? After all, feelings are attached with their life too. Are
men responsible for the sins of women? Yes! This is reality; this is
true. Men are the convicts; not women!
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