Farid wanted to become a fortune teller.Why he wanted to become so,he did not have answer for.Or to say,he could never explain his reasons for becoming a fortune teller.As a child,Farid was an inquisitive one,always eager to know the details.His inquistiveness often bugged others and few at times used to get irritated with his sets of questions.Once,there was a death in his family;his grand father's younger brother had died and Farid's 1st question to his father was,why he died and where,he went after his death.
The efforts of Farid's family in offering superficial answers were hardly of any help.Each time Farid asked a question and he was told some answer or the another.For example,when he asked,how God made Eve from Adam's ribs,his grandmother told him,this was God's ways of doing things and it will have the logic beyond the reasoning of human beings.In this case Farid refused to believe that Eve can be created in such a way and was also of the opinion that,it was 1st Eve,who was created than say Adam.
Farid had his own theories to each event in history.For him,maybe the god did not exist and events happens basis the ability of any stakeholder's ability to reason out the future.Person with better reasoning abilities prevail.Often Farid could enter into heated discussions with his relatives and only reason Farid used to quiten down was,he was not sure of his own logic.To be fair to Farid,winning an argument hardly mattered to him and it was always about increasing his ability to reason.
Farid loved Mazars and often used to spend time at Mazars.He believed in some connection with the dead and for him,the dead were the invisible soul,who could understand truth.As one day,he told his mother,Ammi,till we are alive,its not possible for us to know things,reason - an obvious preoccupation with multi things at one time.Farid believed,it takes a death to get relieved from desires and tensions and one needs death,so as to know the answer for all ultimate questions.
Farid often had great doubts on all aspects,the biggest one of which was time and existence.He often distrusted calendars and believed maybe these were just figments of human being's imaginations.To him,maybe the time did not exist and today,tomorrow and yesterday were just words of token value.He could believe in staticism of time and often said,time does not pass and we just feel the time passes.For him units of time were literary tokens than alignment to any physical science.
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Sunday, August 29, 2010
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Devil's child
Farid loved rivers.To him,it was the origin of all.He loved its peace.He can't but just adore watching river.More often than not,it was his second home. As a child,his grandmother once told him,God made human beings from soil..Farid never believed it and suspected God must have used water and naturally his grandmother was wrong.
As a child,he was strange.He had an unique ability to remember everything on one go.His parents loved showcasing his ability to all,strangers included.But Farid detested this act of his parents.To him all human beings were the same and so were the ability to remember.
Farid was a also natural in doubting things.Once he was told,he has angels sitting on his shoulder,who write the good and the bad deeds.He doubted it.To him,seeing was believing and he had never seen angels.
For once,he had become a sort of rebel in his family.His unique ability of not believing made him different from others.He wanted to sense everything.It has to be physical or else,it dint exist.
With time,his doubts increased only.Of all his doubts,his parents were worried about his disbelief in God.He once told his father,he wants to see God.His father deeply resented the way his son was growing.He took him to numerous Maulanas,each of them offered his unique conclusion.
However Farid always listened to each word,the Maulanas were telling.He dint believe it but always felt,maybe they were right.Once,he was taken to a nearby town,twhere,1 Maulvi told his father,your son is being implanted words by the devils. While on the way back to home,Farid told his father,"I think,Maulana was right".His father looked at him and was stunned at the words.
For Farid,he was always being told by someone.Even when,he was being showcased for his unique ability to memorise,he had suspected,it was someone else,who was putting words in his mouth.
Soon,Farid started believing in he being the implant of a devil.He could see a purpose in his life.He has to work on behalf of someone.He sensed freedom in it.After all,he alike others doesnt have to think.He just needs to do what he was told to.
With time,he had become quiter and started getting into his own shell.He detested presence of people and always wished for solitude.He wanted to do something,which his master ordered him to.He was worried,presence of others would corrupt his senses.He wanted plain instructions.Do or say this and don't do this or don't say it.He sought his purpose in following.
His father who was growing older often tried to reason it out with him,telling him to mingle with people.He suspected,his solitude will bring further misery to him.For once,he even tried reasoning it out with him.Yet the last argument,he had with his son,discouraged him.Farid has talked about the purpose of devil.Farid mentioned,how the world will know of the good,till they know the bad and for Farid,he was the impersonation of the bad and the devil.
For Farid,the bad was equally important.He often reasoned,the good needs to be measured against the bad.Once he joked with his father,if he was not required,why God made 2 angels sit on shoulders and not one.He then laughed about it
As a child,he was strange.He had an unique ability to remember everything on one go.His parents loved showcasing his ability to all,strangers included.But Farid detested this act of his parents.To him all human beings were the same and so were the ability to remember.
Farid was a also natural in doubting things.Once he was told,he has angels sitting on his shoulder,who write the good and the bad deeds.He doubted it.To him,seeing was believing and he had never seen angels.
For once,he had become a sort of rebel in his family.His unique ability of not believing made him different from others.He wanted to sense everything.It has to be physical or else,it dint exist.
With time,his doubts increased only.Of all his doubts,his parents were worried about his disbelief in God.He once told his father,he wants to see God.His father deeply resented the way his son was growing.He took him to numerous Maulanas,each of them offered his unique conclusion.
However Farid always listened to each word,the Maulanas were telling.He dint believe it but always felt,maybe they were right.Once,he was taken to a nearby town,twhere,1 Maulvi told his father,your son is being implanted words by the devils. While on the way back to home,Farid told his father,"I think,Maulana was right".His father looked at him and was stunned at the words.
For Farid,he was always being told by someone.Even when,he was being showcased for his unique ability to memorise,he had suspected,it was someone else,who was putting words in his mouth.
Soon,Farid started believing in he being the implant of a devil.He could see a purpose in his life.He has to work on behalf of someone.He sensed freedom in it.After all,he alike others doesnt have to think.He just needs to do what he was told to.
With time,he had become quiter and started getting into his own shell.He detested presence of people and always wished for solitude.He wanted to do something,which his master ordered him to.He was worried,presence of others would corrupt his senses.He wanted plain instructions.Do or say this and don't do this or don't say it.He sought his purpose in following.
His father who was growing older often tried to reason it out with him,telling him to mingle with people.He suspected,his solitude will bring further misery to him.For once,he even tried reasoning it out with him.Yet the last argument,he had with his son,discouraged him.Farid has talked about the purpose of devil.Farid mentioned,how the world will know of the good,till they know the bad and for Farid,he was the impersonation of the bad and the devil.
For Farid,the bad was equally important.He often reasoned,the good needs to be measured against the bad.Once he joked with his father,if he was not required,why God made 2 angels sit on shoulders and not one.He then laughed about it
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