Judge Only When...

By Samira Maqbool

In my area, came a lady who was young beautiful and quite modern along with her two children to settle. She was a widow, her husband had passed away tragically few months ago in some accident.

By then her children were used to the surrounding and play around in the parking area, as she would chase them away to stay out. Food was never prepared at her home. As everyone has the belief that God never lets anyone sleep empty stomach and they were surely some kind neighbours around who would give her and her children food to eat.

Their was something different about her, she would dress differently as pupil around her were not modern. She had a habit of spraying perfume every now and then. Surprisingly, a mile away I could smell the beautiful different scents or perfumes she used to spray.

Few nosy neighbours noticed few men coming at her home at different intervals of time and started judging about her character. God gives respect to whom he wills.

One fine day she came outside to buy something, while buying, on the road she suddenly fainted, people rushed to help her out sprinkled water to regain her consciousness. An ambulance was called and the locals took her to the nearby hospital. At the hospital later, she was pronounced dead.

Her children were at the neighbours being taken care. The Men who visited had come to her home not knowing about her death. Amazingly, the First one who visited was her Doctor who was treating her at home prescribing medicines as she was ailing from a dreadful skin Cancer which apparently had no cure, the reason she sprayed all around her so that the smell of her bruised skin does not reach any other person, thin cotton clothes gave coolness to her irritating skin which was quite revealing making her outlook modern for some and the reason she couldn’t cook for herself and her children. Second, was an Advocate who used to bring her money from the property her husband had left. Third, was her brother in-law who would come to ask about her health and his brothers children.

How easy was it for everyone to judge her! Stop taking out faults of others. Leave things on God as he knows best.

By Samira Maqbool