Letters to the editor
"You can never tell"
Quite a number of years have passed since I read a true story told by a doctor, titled "You can never tell," in the Reader's Digest. It often comes to my mind and I marvel at it.
The story goes like this: One day the doctor, who was then young, attended a woman who was in labour pains. A son was born but the baby was not breathing and the doctor noticed that it was deformed. For a moment the doctor thought there are so many deformed people in the world, why add another one? But a doctor's duty is to save lives, not to destroy it. He overcame the flitting thought and revived the baby. After many years that doctor became a grandfather. His grandson fell ill. He searched for a specialist and found one who bore the same name as his. The doctor took his grandson to him and noticed some deformity of the doctor. At one stage he said that his parents named him after the doctor who brought him to the world. A chord struck in the grandfather's mind and he instantly realised that it was the baby whom he thought would become a burden!
Life is so strange and unpredictable. I think it is Almighty Allah's way of saying, "who are you to decide?"
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