By: Gaurav Arora “I should like to help everyone if possible, Muslims, Hindus, Christine’s, Jew, gentile, black men, white. We all want to help one another; human beings are like that. We all want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone.” Charlie Chaplin.
Humanity is an important part of our life which tells us to help others, try to understand each other and realize our people problems with our own eyes and try to solve them.
For demonstrating humanity, you don’t need to be a rich person, even a poor person can show humanity by helping someone in any way like sharing his or her food, etc. When you show humanity, you feel a click or a pinch from your inner soul which you cannot get from anything else.
Every religion tells us about humanity, peace and love that is why no religion is higher than humanity.
Therefore, today I will narrate stories of three people who are the biggest example of humanity in the modern world: -
Firstly, just imagine yourself in a room filled with garbage. How will you feel like? Would you stay in the room? Almost all of us will have a negative response, but there is a person who will dive into that garbage, search if there are any dead bodies of any human by chance and take out that body, wash it and bury that body with dignity, he is still doing it until he is alive along with his wife. This man is no other than Mr. Abdul Sattar Edhi, the lover of humanity. He is the founder and head of the Edhi Foundation, a non-profit social welfare organization in Pakistan. He is the man who has committed his whole life for serving the humanity without any selfishness. He has bathed and buried over a thousand unclaimed bodies in a time when selfishness and greed are at their peak and nobody seems to know the meaning of words like altruism and selflessness. His achievements in the field of charity are bound to make one think that his name is synonymous to nobility and humanity. And today he is running Pakistan’s biggest network of ambulances and shelter.
Moreover, his charity does not discriminate on the basis of religion, race or gender. For him, religion is human rights. Edhi has spent many sleepless nights working and serving for humanity whether it is to bury unclaimed bodies or feeding any poor. Besides this, he lives a simple life living in small house, many a times he sleeps on the concrete or on the small batch outside his shop. His qualities make him the man of simplicity and a human being lover. As Edhi Said: “No religion is higher than Humanity”
Secondly, I will tell you about a person who is basically a Pakistani but he is living in Canada he had a son named Ali and his son was 18 years old. This man lost his son in an accident. His son was working part time as pizza delivery boy when he was on the way for the delivery, one black guy who was also of his age came before him and asked for ransom money, but Ali was honest with his job and refused. As a result, that guy shot him at that very moment. When Ali’s father came to know about his son’s death he was in shock and after few days police caught the person who killed his son and called Ali’s father to come when he reached there he came to know that boy who killed his son is 18 years old he is orphan. Ali’s father said “I don’t want to do any case on this boy I want to adopt this boy and want to take all responsibilities of this boy because today I lost my son, I don’t want tomorrow somebody else to lose his 18 years old son”. Just for a minute, place yourself on the place of Ali’s father what will be your feeling when your 18 years old son is shot dead. Ali’s father’s act of humanity raised the whole mankind and today he has 4 orphanages in Canada where he has taken responsibility of around 800 children.
Thirdly, the person I am talking about is another well-known personality, the person who gave Pakistan its first world cup in 1992, his name is Imran Khan. Most notable among his humanitarian efforts has been the establishment of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, named after his late mother. It is Pakistan’s first and only cancer hospital that provides 75% free health care, and was built on public donations. Imran is now building a second hospital in Karachi, based on the successful Lahore model. In 1994, he inaugurated Namal College, a technical college which is now an associated college of University of Bradford.
I chose the people of Pakistan to demonstrate the acts of kindness because it proves the fact that it doesn’t matter which socio-economic region you belong to. There is only the need of humanity in your soul to do good deeds in this world.
Although these people do things for humanity on a large scale, we should ourselves do a little gesture for humanity, be it in any form.
We should must realize for what we are in this world because every religion teaches us humanity and the one who serves humanity is the happiest man on the face of this earth. Real happiness is your inner satisfaction which you can get only by serving humanity as no amount of riches can buy you inner happiness.
Lastly, I would only say that it doesn’t matter which religion you belong to, be a human first, strive for humanity as every religion teaches us humanity, share your life with others as life is all about living for others and serving humanity that is why “no religion is higher than Humanity” so start serving for humanity from today by doing a small of act of kindness, because no amount is small.
Written by ‘Gaurav Arora’ from ‘Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College.’