Pʀᴏᴜᴅ ᴛᴏ ʙᴇ ʙᴏʀɴ ɪɴ ɪɴᴅɪᴀ🇮🇳

Proud To Be Born In India🇮🇳

This is a story about two ladies. They are really close to our family. The story is about my badi ammi.
So , she and her younger sister...both of them. There is a country really far away from India called
Iraq, over there is a place called Najaf-e-Ashraf where Maula Ali's shrine is located. Maula Ali was Prophet
Mohammed's son-in-law. So, both of them went there. It was a tour of around 5 days , 2 or 3 days of the tour
were already over so how normally time is passing by travelers...travelers are also increasing rapidly.
So, they thought they'll step out during the afternoon when the crowd will be less. So they both decided...both the sisters got ready in the hotel. The route from the hotel to haram has a marketplace where alot of shopkeepers and other street - hawkers sell stuff. So both of them were walking when suddenly they heard a voice...they passed by a child.

The child was 12 years old. He was fair and thin had dust stuck on his face. His clothes were a bit worn out
and he was loudly telling people "take the t-shirt, take the t-shirt". He was talking in Arabic. One of the sisters
knew Arabic he was saying " take the t-shirt , take the t-shirt 5 t-shirts..for only 2000 Iraqi " Iraqi is their currency
so the sisters decided, " okay, lets go see." So they went and saw and started checking it out.. and the other
sister said, "let's go, we are getting late - let's go towards the shrine" both of them started walking, the kid came running behind them came and said , "what happened?". "You tell me, how much do you want this in?". So, both
the sisters started lookin at each other, both of them had a discussion about what price to quote since the boy
was asking. One of the sisters said, "we'll give you 1000 Iraqis for these five t-shirts, so the kid said, "no,1000 Iraqis
is very less, I won't make any profit, for you, for you maximum I can do is 1700 Iraqi" both the sisters had a conservation and then, one of them said, "the cloth isn't that bad.. it's good let's just buy it." Then both of them
went behind his stell and started looking at the cloths, that saw and selected and then it was time to pay, they gave money to the boy.

As soon as the boy got the money, there was a glow on his face as if that dust.. the sadness that was decorated
on his face got lost somewhere. One of them asked, "wow, you look really happy, it seems like..it's your days first
earning" They both came from a business family and so they knew even my father has a small shop so I know
the value of days first earning , there are lot of days when you don't make anything. So the child said,"no ma'am,
it's not my days first earning, it's my weeks first earning", hearing this ,both of them were taken a back Okay.

Then, one of them asked that, "who all are there in your family?" he said, "I am there, my mother's there and
one little sister" "I work and whatever money I make is used to send my younger sister to school". One of the
sister's said, "your dad isn't there?" So, the child said that, "a lot of days back, far from here some people came
to our village they were tall, wearing black clothes they came and shot my father in the forehead, when you
get to hear that your father is in pain, your heart breaks. Even if he falls, your heart breaks Imagine this child's
condition who has seen his 12 year old kid who is holding his mother and sisters hand sees that someone comes and shoots his father in the forehead. Hearing this, their heart broke. One of the sisters said, " you wait, I'll just
come back ". She ran to the hotel. There were a lot of snacks and fruits lying in the room, She got the entire bag, she got it and gave it to the kid .

Now, when we get something, we became happy. We say, we want to see what all is there to eat but  someone
Who knows the real value of food looks at it and the first words he says are this is one weeks food! my mother
will be so happy hearing this, they both became really happy. Our religious guru, Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin
there is no greater wealth than a prayer in the world and when someone consumes a morsel of food and it reaches the stomach , then the prayer comes out of heart. So they gave him that and then the kid says, "I'll pray
to Maula Ali, whose doorsteps you've come to that he grants all your wishes really soon" hearing this, they were
left stunned and started walking. While walking, one sister asks the other, "today when we've come away
from our country to this country we realize the value of India. Thank God we are born, raised and live in India.

                                                                                                                              ~ By Mr. Mohammed Sadriwala