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07-10-2016, 03:53 AM
ISLAMABAD: One has the ho**ur to meet the singular humanitarian, Maulana Abdus Sattar Edhi, way back in 1984 in connection with professional calls.
A friend phoned, requesting to visit his house, a government quarter, in Islamabad as he wanted one to see a hero, who has done a**ther wonder.
As one reached there, a bearded man was sitting in the small drawing room with a woman. The friend introduced the man as Edhi and the female as his wife, Bilquis. The couple was wearing very simple, cheap and un-ironed getup and was courteous, down-to-earth and saintly.
Even in the following 32 years after this encounter, one always saw Edhi in the similar costume when he had been raising funds for the organization or engaged in other assignments of the charity. This was a fascinating spectacle that would shame those running charities because of their princely lifestyles. Edhi’s life is full of many aspects that need emulation.
By that time, the network of the Edhi Foundation has **t sprawled in almost every **ok and corner of Pakistan and was mostly confined to Karachi. Edhi was then k**wn but **t that much as he came to be later due to his selfless and superb work all over Pakistan. After a few minutes, the two teenaged girls, covering their heads with scarfs, were called to the drawing room. Edhi told us that they had left their homes in the federal capital after being an**yed with certain decisions of their parents and come to Karachi.
One of them, who had gone to the mega city by train, had landed at the Edhi centre in Karachi. She told its staff that one of her friends had also abandoned her Islamabad home and has departed for Karachi.
The other girl was picked up by Edhi from the Karachi Railway Station as she reached there. He provided them initial support and succour and listened to their tales of woes. Till their bringing to Islamabad, they stayed at the Edhi centre.
The girls were insistent that they would prefer to stay in the Edhi centre rather than going back to their homes. However, after some sessions with Edhi and his God-fearing wife, they agreed to return to their homes. But they put the condition that their parents would **t force them into doing something they detest. Edhi and his spouse promised to do whatever they can. Both the girls hailed from well-to-do families.
One has the chance to talk to the two girls, who said they felt as if they were at home while staying at the Edhi centre. They were full of praise for fatherly support of Edhi and motherly assistance of his wife.
After sometime, the parents of the girls were called there and given the thrilling news that their daughters have been recovered and brought to Islamabad. In the beginning, they did **t believe but when the girls were produced before them, their doubts disappeared. They vowed **t to let their daughters complain again.
The way Edhi and his spouse recounted the story, plight of the girls when they came to the Edhi centre and the treatment they were extended there, clearly demonstrated as if their actual parents were speaking.
The couple also talked about the social and charitable work the Edhi Foundation is doing in Karachi. As the network expanded across Pakistan, Edhi became a household name and a role model nationwide as well as globally.
Like an excited reporter at the start of his professional career, one filed the story, containing a description of the saint, on the disappearance of the girls, their miraculous recovery and handing them over to their parents, to the English newspaper one was then attached with. It got a good display as it deserved.
Among countless examples of compassion, benevolence, humanity, philanthropy and patronage, one of the most striking jobs that even parents despised to do was that Edhi used to collect the newborns, consigned to litter bins, in Karachi. If he would found them alive, he would bring them up like **rmal children. And if they were dead, he would arrange their burials.
The charred and mutilated bodies, which were often found in Karachi in huge numbers during its worst violence, that even their heirs would **t be able to collect because of their conditions were always gathered by Edhi himself for burial. The caste, creed, ethnicity or religion was never an issue for Edhi in this unforgettable job.
**w when Edhi has gone to the eternal abode, his son Faisal and wife Bilquis have a huge burden on their shoulders to carry on his mission with the same ambition of self-sacrificing, **bility and goodness.
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A friend phoned, requesting to visit his house, a government quarter, in Islamabad as he wanted one to see a hero, who has done a**ther wonder.
As one reached there, a bearded man was sitting in the small drawing room with a woman. The friend introduced the man as Edhi and the female as his wife, Bilquis. The couple was wearing very simple, cheap and un-ironed getup and was courteous, down-to-earth and saintly.
Even in the following 32 years after this encounter, one always saw Edhi in the similar costume when he had been raising funds for the organization or engaged in other assignments of the charity. This was a fascinating spectacle that would shame those running charities because of their princely lifestyles. Edhi’s life is full of many aspects that need emulation.
By that time, the network of the Edhi Foundation has **t sprawled in almost every **ok and corner of Pakistan and was mostly confined to Karachi. Edhi was then k**wn but **t that much as he came to be later due to his selfless and superb work all over Pakistan. After a few minutes, the two teenaged girls, covering their heads with scarfs, were called to the drawing room. Edhi told us that they had left their homes in the federal capital after being an**yed with certain decisions of their parents and come to Karachi.
One of them, who had gone to the mega city by train, had landed at the Edhi centre in Karachi. She told its staff that one of her friends had also abandoned her Islamabad home and has departed for Karachi.
The other girl was picked up by Edhi from the Karachi Railway Station as she reached there. He provided them initial support and succour and listened to their tales of woes. Till their bringing to Islamabad, they stayed at the Edhi centre.
The girls were insistent that they would prefer to stay in the Edhi centre rather than going back to their homes. However, after some sessions with Edhi and his God-fearing wife, they agreed to return to their homes. But they put the condition that their parents would **t force them into doing something they detest. Edhi and his spouse promised to do whatever they can. Both the girls hailed from well-to-do families.
One has the chance to talk to the two girls, who said they felt as if they were at home while staying at the Edhi centre. They were full of praise for fatherly support of Edhi and motherly assistance of his wife.
After sometime, the parents of the girls were called there and given the thrilling news that their daughters have been recovered and brought to Islamabad. In the beginning, they did **t believe but when the girls were produced before them, their doubts disappeared. They vowed **t to let their daughters complain again.
The way Edhi and his spouse recounted the story, plight of the girls when they came to the Edhi centre and the treatment they were extended there, clearly demonstrated as if their actual parents were speaking.
The couple also talked about the social and charitable work the Edhi Foundation is doing in Karachi. As the network expanded across Pakistan, Edhi became a household name and a role model nationwide as well as globally.
Like an excited reporter at the start of his professional career, one filed the story, containing a description of the saint, on the disappearance of the girls, their miraculous recovery and handing them over to their parents, to the English newspaper one was then attached with. It got a good display as it deserved.
Among countless examples of compassion, benevolence, humanity, philanthropy and patronage, one of the most striking jobs that even parents despised to do was that Edhi used to collect the newborns, consigned to litter bins, in Karachi. If he would found them alive, he would bring them up like **rmal children. And if they were dead, he would arrange their burials.
The charred and mutilated bodies, which were often found in Karachi in huge numbers during its worst violence, that even their heirs would **t be able to collect because of their conditions were always gathered by Edhi himself for burial. The caste, creed, ethnicity or religion was never an issue for Edhi in this unforgettable job.
**w when Edhi has gone to the eternal abode, his son Faisal and wife Bilquis have a huge burden on their shoulders to carry on his mission with the same ambition of self-sacrificing, **bility and goodness.
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