Dear Robin
I did not catch this article. Thank you so much for pointing it out. It is a heart warming and wonderful account of better men from perhaps a better era. Makes me nostalgic for a time I did not see. I don't recognise any of the qualities of our nation or of this man, as described in this article, in the nation or men that I see in present times. Its easy to be nostalgic. And perhaps those times were no less tumultuous than our own times. Still. There is no doubt that we have lost some better part of us in recent decades.
At a milad for a gentleman who had passed away I was asked to say something. It came to me then and there to say:
"A nation is more than roads and buildings. A nation is more than power stations, schools and hospitals. A nation is made up of people. A nation is a society. And how our AL and BNP activists love to say that their party, when in power, is holding the nation together. The truth is that they are not holding our society together. The truth is that it is our elders who are holding our society together.everyone here has such an elder (murobbi) in their family. And we are losing these elders everyday. Soon, no such elders will remain. And they cannot be replaced. We are not fit to walk in their shoes. May Allah help our society in a few years, when we have no such elders left."
Whereupon a few grown men burst into tears as they remembered elders in their own families. And I shed tears for my own elders.
Lets hope that somehow such men return to live amongst us and to lead us and above all to be appreciated by us.
Thank you again. Thank you very much.
Best wishes
Ezajur
Thursday, October 7, 2010
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