Pleasant Stories & Anecdotes — Page 13
Pleasant Stories—A Deaf And A Patient 13 Mathnawī that the mother of a man was an adulteress. He mur- dered her. The people asked, ‘Why did you kill your mother? You should have killed her lovers’. He replied, ‘How many could I have killed, one, two, or how many more? It was befitting just to kill her’. This is the very situation with the vaccine. (Malf ūzā t, vol. 4, p. 80) A Deaf and a Patient When we see the human kind as civilized then why should we not consider civilization as its root?… Should God have shown the first example a pretentious show, virtuous or a sample of evil and contention, that God created him evil, but then he slowly became civilized? Such thought is audac- ity and an insult to the dignity of the Almighty God. It is the same example as described in Mathnawī about a deaf person who visited a sick person to inquire about his health. He thought that first, he will ask about this person’s health and when the patient will reply, ‘I am OK’, he shall say, ‘All praise to Allah’. Then he will ask him, ‘What do you eat?’ Upon this he will say, ‘I eat lentil’, and I shall reply by saying, ‘Very good’. Then he shall inquire, ‘Who is your doctor?’ and he will reply, ‘Such and such is my doctor’, to which I will then say, ‘He is a good doctor and takes care of his patients’. When he went to inquire about the patient [the conversation went like this]: