My Allah, I thank You. Dr Shabir Choudhry.

 My Allah, I thank You. Dr Shabir Choudhry.

O Allah, it is Your great favour upon me that You created me as a human being, and greater still that You made me a Muslim. You gave me some knowledge and blessed me with health. I used the tongue, eyes, ears, hands, and countless other blessings that You granted me, yet I could never fulfil the true right of gratitude for them. My Allah, forgive me for this ingratitude.

Now, when my mind no longer works as it once did, when my eyesight has weakened, and my hearing is gradually failing, I realise that I no longer hold the same importance as before. Friends from politics — if they can truly be called friends — now tend to ignore me. Not only strangers, but even some of those very close to me – my loved ones laugh and make sarcastic remarks about my weak hearing and poor eyesight.

Such is life.

My Allah, I still thank You.

As long as I was able to make full use of the abilities and blessings You had granted me, I too was respected. Now that those abilities are diminishing, I, too, seem to have been pushed aside and replaced.

Think, readers, you can also face the same predicament.