ENVIRONMENT BRINGS  BIG CHANGES IN LIFE

I am going to share with you an interesting story of a man, whose name was Hamid (not real name). He was an artist. Therefore, he took it as a profession in his whole life. He reserved a big room for decoration of his arts� activities. He drew the pictures of different kinds of flowers, trees, plants, animals, birds, stones, mountains, valleys, cities, lives in cities and villages, kings , poor people and so on. With the passage of time he made so many pictures of things existing in the universe and decorated them in his room. One day, he thought that he didn�t make the photograph of an angel, but thought that where he would find an angel? He, then thought again that although it is not possible for him to find angel, but he can find such people who have some characteristics of an angel. For example, behaving with others nicely, helping others, telling the truth and so on. He decided to go for search of an angel. One day, on his way he saw a few children playing on the road. He sat there and found one of the youngest child different from other children in terms of behavior, way of talking, tolerance and etc. He observed him for two days, because he was interesting, an extra ordinary and unique child in his eyes and at last he decided to consider him as an angel, because in his opinion the child had the qualities of an angel. He met with the child and asked a few questions about his family background. He then sought his permission to make his photograph and made it. When Mr. Hamid came back to his home, he wrote an angel at the bottom of the child�s photo and put it in his room.
After the passage of about twenty years, when one day he was watching the pictures and photographs in his room as he thought that he did not make the photo of shaitan (evil). Then he thought where he can go to find shaitan. He decided to go to Jail, which is an appropriate place to find shaitan, because those people who follow shaitan and do bad thing in the society are put into the jail. For example, killing of innocent people, gang rapping, corruption etc. He then went to central jail and met the jail supdt and requested him to provide him the list of prisoners. He got the list and read it and found a person whose name was Bush Khan (not real name). Bush Khan was committed so many crimes like kidnapping of people, rapping, even he killed his own father. So Hamid decided to meet him. He interviewed Bush Khan but Bush Khan told him every thing by referring that shaitan misled him to commit such crimes. Mr. Hamid assumed that he had the qualities of shaitan and asked his permission to make his photograph and made it. When Mr. Hamid came back to his home he wrote shaitan at the bottom of Bush Khan�s photo and put it in his room.
After the passage of about fifteen years, Mr. Hamid was going out of his home, on the way he met a handsome old man having a nice beard. Mr. Hamid invited him to have a cup of tea with him. The old man accepted his offer and went to his home. When they reached home, Mr. Hamid asked him to have a seat and he himself went to the kitchen to ask the servant for making tea. When he came back to guest room he saw that Mr. Bush Khan was weeping while watching the photographs of an angel and the shaitan. Mr. Hamid got surprised to see the old man weeping and asked him about the reason. Mr. Bush Khan told the whole story that how does the environment affect on the personality of a person. He told that the photograph of an angel is his own photo. When he was a very young child of six year old. At that time his both parents were alive and they provided him a very conducive environment at home. That was why that he behaved like an angel, but unfortunately his mother died earlier and his father got second married. His step mother treated him very cruelly and made his life miserable. As a result he was compelled to leave his home and unwillingly joined bad companies and was involved in serious crimes, which even led him to kill his own father and went to jail. The photograph of shaitan is also his photo, which you made it when he was in jail. Therefore, he is weeping that how an environment badly damaged his personality and demoted him from an angel level to the shaitan, he said.

Dur Wali Khan
Karachi