THE TRUTH
(Anum Tahir PCW Rwp)
I was sent to a place where it is a blessing to be there. Existing there as “you” is a special gift
which many don’t understand. What place it was, I’ll tell you at the end, just keep reading and feel the
words from your heart. I hope you’ll be a different person at the end.
When I went there, I knew nothing about that place. I wasn’t capable to fulfilling my needs myself,
too – because I didn’t know anything. My mind was not in my control…. I just looked at every thing
around me, excitedly. Every thing surrounding me appeared to be a new adventure to discover. My stay at
that place was not permanent – of course. But I didn’t know it then. That’s how my journey began. I
didn’t know anything and that made me cry; but there were others to help me. Very generous and
extraordinarily caring and loving people, they were. Two of them – it was there duty to help me and guide
me through my voyage. I found them very pleasing and humble at first; but then I passed time at that place
– and began to figure out things myself… I felt they are bugging me.
Of course I wasn’t the only one who was sent to that place. Many people went with me, before me
and after me. With some of them, I was linked. It was compulsory for me to be with them at the end of the
journey, then. I didn’t like a few of them and they perhaps didn’t like me too. So, we fought and being
against the rules – we split up! I was going okay…. I didn’t need them on my journey; neither did they
need me… so we went all by ourselves, not together. As the time passed and I lived at that place – I come
to know many new things! Life there was so fun. Everybody was kind in the start but as the time passed, it
also changed the moods. My two guides – they told me to do things, I didn’t like. In the start I obeyed
them respectfully but later, it had gone too far. They stopped and forbade me from every thing I loved and
said that was against the rules!
Then I saw some of my age-fellows doing stuff that I loved. I wondered how their guides allow
them to do that… I went up to them and came to know that they didn’t care about the instructions. It’s a
beautiful place and they had to enjoy it! I thought the same after that… whatever may happen, that’s the
second thing.
I had to live there of-course and for that I had to make arrangements. I managed a hut, then
upgraded it to a cottage. Then to a house and finally to a mansion. I needed more of it. People there, had
castles and forts too. So I needed one! My guides told me that a mansion is enough for me to live in but all
my friends and other people had a castle.
I finally told my guides – that I don’t need their help anymore. They said that they couldn’t leave
me… it was compulsory for them to be with me as long as they can. They said they had to answer their
heads about their duty. Moreover, they had also developed an affection for me in all that time. The idea of
“leaving me alone” was hurting for them. And so they went with me! They no more forbade me from
anything and let me do whatever I wanted. They said they’ll lie to the heads, about me and my works.
I was off to have a palace now! Soon I had one – big, huge, gigantic and magnificent! It had
everything; every lavishness ever existed. I loved that place and wanted to live there forever. And that’s
what was in my mind…. that I’m going to live in that place till the end. That place was so attractive and
distracting – so beautiful and mesmerizing!
It was that time of my stay at that place when I had gathered much wealth and felt like the happiest
person ever existed… when suddenly I came to know that a test was going to come. A test about how you -2-
lived in that place and to how much extent you followed the rules. My eyes opened wide when I came to
know that every one had to appear in it!
It was so late during my stay, when I came to know that there was instruction book about how to
live there – containing all the rules and regulations. I remembered then, that my guides had once tried to
tell me about it but I hadn’t cared to listen. I ran back to my guides and asked them for help. I knew they’d
help – they loved me! At start one of them refused but when they saw me drenched and worried, they
agreed. They brought me the book but even then, I wasn’t humble enough to open it and go through it.
That was the time when I came to know that my stay was temporary and I was to go back after the
test. Then I realized that this time was the preparatory phase and I had wasted it all…
I expected from my guides to present an explanation from my side … but they said they couldn’t.
They themselves were caught in their test about neglecting their duties regarding me. And so I was left all
alone.
By then, I became a senior and was no more a new comer. Now, I was a guide and I had to guide
the new comers. From the first sight of a kid, to whom I was assigned to guide – I loved him. Then, I
came to know and realized how my guides would have loved me… and that was the time when I
remembered my rude treatment to my guides. I imagined my junior (that kid whose responsibility was on
me) to do the same with me – It was extremely hurting. I felt sorry but it was too late. I had no chance of
apologizing, for my guides had far gone back after their test. And now it was my turn! I looked at the new
comers; they were so raw in their emotions, laughing and chatting cheerfully. Then I looked at the elders
or people of my age – most of them were satisfied with their preparation, though they didn’t want to leave
this place. Then, finally, my eyes caught sight of my castle and wealth. I had nothing to do but to repent
on what I had done. I had wasted all my precious time, collecting the bounties of that place… and now it
was the time to leave that place for good. Just before the test, I was blessed to open up the instruction
book. I opened it at a random page and me eyes caught sight of lines. The words depicted the condition
and miserable plight of those who hadn’t followed the rules. The strict and extremely harsh punishment
was written for those who had indulged in the benefit of that place only and had forgotten the reality… for
those who had treated their guides rudely and had broken up with their group…!
I had done all of them and the punishment was so severe that even the words looked terrifying. But
now, there was no chance of returning to the good. The time of test had come and there was no escape
from it!!
For you and for every body else – I humbly request to open up the instruction book and do follow it
so that you may have something, when your time of test comes. Now… it’s the time I tell you, who am I
and what was that place. Well, dear reader, I am the human being and that place is the world! The journey
is the life and your guides are your parents. The group is your relatives, new comers are of-course the
newborn babies; and test… test is the death! The instruction book is nothing other than “The Holy Quran”
and please:
“TURN TO ALLAH BEFORE YOU RETURN TO ALLAH!”
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The Truth | Anum Tahir
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