Man with a Vision!!

Nowadays that everything is changing so fast even relations are not spare from this day to day phenomenon. The concept of a relation is abruptly change to follow patterns of our new high technology, working, very busy society. Everything is so much materialized that sentiments have no place in our lives anymore. One of the seven sins Greed is taking over; we are thinking more about us then the rest of the world. No doubt there are some foundations and organisations promoting to share, sacrifice, giving, and the insignificant action of thinking about others before doing something. Think for a second when was the last time you stop in your busy life and wanted to sit down to say a few words to your loved one. Time is like running out of our hands and we are running to catch up with it, without looking back who is left behind or who we are going over in the race of acquiring something that we can’t have. I think relations should be prioritized in life in order for us to be more happy and healthy.

My Grandfather Pir Syed Hakeem Rashid Ud Daulah had a unique view of relations and family. I don’t know if we have followed his footsteps at all but, remembering what he wanted for us to achieve is a beginning of a new way of living. Abbaji has I knew him grew up doing hard work early in his life. His knowledge in in both his career and his religion was very vast. I have an audio cassette with some of his words of love and guidance for us to follow. I recall him talking about “Maqbool Neki” acceptation of good deeds, he used to say that if you are going to take a step look in you are not going to step on an ant. His family was above everything even of himself. He wanted for us to be together. Giving was his most valuable asset. He gave to anyone who was in real need. Fulfilling all his responsibilities he had time to listen to problems of his own community and trying his best to solve it. I was in Venezuela when he passed away. I have been told that his funeral was full of strangers calling him, remembering him, caring for him; there were people who he touched in some way or another. During his life children that he gave his support and love left him due to mundane circumstances to look for a better life for him/her family. The family that were left with him being so busy within themselves they didn’t have time to look around and learn from what this old man was saying. After such a long time we are all facing the same problems living in a world that don’t see beyond their own noses. The question to be asked is what is in there for me? What I am going to gain out of it? We have become so selfish in so called providing for our family that we have forgot them.

Give some time to reflect on what have you achieved. Try to make our Abbaji proud and become a family. Everyone out there who belongs to the Ud Daulahs remember the words of a man with a vision together we can still be what you are with much happier life. Give time to your love one. Love to all…

DiL