Whenever I put on the lenses of reality to visualise the world surrounding us, I always notice that people are chasing the kites of wealth, money and properties.

Everyday, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west meanwhile, under the shade of the blue sky, thousands of incidents occur in our day-to-day life. Some of them cheer us up and some make us sad. We by-pass most of these incidents; forget many, but few make permanent impact in our minds.

Unfortunately, I had come across such a horrible incident which shook my cerebral sphere and caused me to change the various common placed concepts and beliefs about this mortal world and life too.

As, I was crossing the road, near Mondovi post office, Bhendi Bazar, Bombay, some time ago, I had seen an innocent lad of seven to eight years old running on the road just to catch a cut-off kite. Suddenly screams of passers by rose from that corner. Out of curiosity, I walked a little in that direction and peeped in. I was aghast to see that the boy was crushed into pieces as the “Front Wheel” and thereafter the “Back Wheel” of the loaded truck had passed over the stomach of that boy. He was lying in a pool of blood and his mother was standing next to him with tears in her eyes. A huge crowd of people around could not do anything, except console the anguished mother.
I was moving towards the J.J. Hospital with the thoughts of how that innocent life was crushed: between the “two wheels” of the truck. I was quite confident that, the boy must have made one target that anyhow, he has to catch that cut-off kite and just to achieve this materialistic mortal goal, he had lost his life also, the precious one just for the sake of the kite only.

A big storm was going on in my mind and I was thinking about this materialistic mortal world that how that boy was running fearlessly on the road and had lost his life. Like this, human beings are also passing on the path of life without the fear of Allah, the Almighty.

Whenever I put on the lenses of reality to visualise the world surrounding us, I always notice that people are chasing the kites of wealth, money and properties. They are moving around the kites of dictatorship. They are moving around the kites of mortal desires and ambitions and are making strenuous efforts and exertion to secure the kites of false concepts of greatness, ego, pride and material gains.

It would be better, if we open our eyes and also try to understand the “Purpose of life” before reaching between the “Two Wheels of Life and Death”.

Similarly, I stand as a witness to one more shocking incident, which took place at Haffkine Institute, Parel, Bombay. Haffkine Institute, Bombay is one of the biggest Institute in Asia where the ASV (Anti- Snake Venom) is prepared on a large scale and supplied throughout the world for the treatment of snakebite patients. This institute has a beautiful campus with all types of snakes like Cobra, Krates, Vipers etc, are kept in various small and big glass boxes. While visiting this institute, I saw two rats and a big snake inside one glass box. Those rats were not aware that they were food for the snake.
Watching this, I was forced to think that similarly this world is like a glass box, those rats are like human beings and the snake is like a symbol of death.

Death, can arrive at any moment without any prior notification and one day, all living creatures, will die. The two incidents- . the Kid and the Kite and the Rats and the Snake, are sufficient enough to make us think seriously about the few basic queries like what is life, what is death, what is life hereafter, why Almighty Allah has sent us on this earth, what we are doing and ideally, what we are supposed to do in this world, what is an ideal pattern of life and what could be the utmost aim and purpose of one’s life, which will be helpful to make a grand success of our life in both the worlds.

Let the whole world realise this fact so that everybody should listen and obey the One Creator of the Universe- that is Allah and Allah alone.

(The writer is based in Haram Al-Sharif, Haram Clinic)

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