Haggard and pale, Faheem, 30, a sturdy young boy with bluish eyes and long hair doing his own business with the dry fruits has not been feeling well for the last two days. His stomach aches continuously, had taken enough medication, but it seems to be not working in his body.
Finally, the parents called the doctors to have a look at him. They without wasting any time ask their family to admit him to the best of the hospitals as soon as possible so that he will recover from this illness early. In the hospital, doctors are trying their best to treat him and find the disease in his stomach. They did every sort of examination on him and sent some of his tests outside to know the cause of the disease in his stomach.
From dawn to dusk, doctors prescribe medicines, but unfortunately, they are not working for him and giving him some sort of relief. They are doing their best to get him out of this illness.
As the days passed by, there was shooting pain in his stomach and it was now unbearable for Faheem to get some relief from this pain. Tranquilizers were the last resort which was injected into his body to get some relief. Now it is talk of the town that his days are few and he will die soon from this stomach ache. Other patients on the bed have the same feeling as him as he is continuously feeling restless from this disease.
Doctors don’t know how to cure this disease which is still undetectable for them. They have given every sort of medicine to the patient, but all futile. His condition is deteriorating every day. The doctor now recommends the family of Faheem to send him to an outside state for treatment so as to get him out of this disease. Family arranged tickets and was now waiting for the final call of the doctors. Many relatives were making continuous rounds to the hospital to know about his health and they were sure he will die soon and the family which has made preparation to send him outside will be left dejected and sad.
Meanwhile, octogenarian religious preacher neatly attired, with thin white beard, having a karakul cap on his head carrying staff to walk having long affinity with the family visits the hospital. He is noble and pious among all the relatives who visited him. He while having a jolly conversation said something to Faheem which mesmerized him. “By God’s grace, tomorrow you will be discharged from the hospital and you will soon recover, but make sure you have to visit my home straight after getting discharged from the hospital. You have to promise me about it.”
Faheem feels a strange kind of gesture in his body and asks his family members to help him to get up from his bed. He now lonely went to the washroom without any help and asked his mother for some food. They instantly called doctors to find out what was happening to him, the patient who was on the deathbed is feeling better. The doctor after examining him asks the family that sometimes miracles start to work in our life. He is continuously improving and he can go now home, there is no need to send him outside now.
Family is delighted to know the news from the doctors. They are feeling better now. Happiness has once again returned back to their faces. Their prayers have been answered and they are relieved now. They are now preparing to go for the home; they have already done the paperwork which hospital asks for. They straight take them to the home and Faheem is happy now, but he is on medication to get him some sort of relief from pain.
The pious old man visited once again as he likes Faheem very much, asks him that why he didn’t visit his home while returning from hospital. Faheem actually forgets all this conversation which this pious man said to him at hospital bed. “Now you have to take this medication for the whole of your life. Had you visited my home there was no need to take medication anymore but as you have broken your promise, now take it for the rest of your life.”
Faheem nowadays is fine and doing his brisk business, but has to take one tablet of stomach ache in his meals at dinner daily to get relief from the pain which is still in his body and which was undetectable for doctors to cure.
The writer is a freelance journalist and can be reached at uh*****@***il.com