3rd to 17th day of Eid

the price of life

1. a private hospital had to transfer a patient who had been brought to the hospital after a near-fatal road accident to a government hospital knowing that the patient needed immediate treatment.


2. transfering the road accident patient to a more affordable government hospital had to be carried out after the insurance company failed to respond to enquiry made on the patient's insurance policy.

if only one knew what tomorrow would be like

1. a husband and a father of six rode a motorbike to and from work every day without a license.


2. a home-maker and a mother of six did not know the pin number of her husband ATM card and did not even have a bank account .

underestimated legal terms

1. legally a bank cannot allow withdrawals of a customer's money without his or her consent. one cannot claim eligibility for his or her spouse's saving or pin number of ATM card even his or her spouse is in a coma.


2. legally an employer cannot transfer an employee's salary to his or her spouse's or any other person's account without the employee's consent.

Verily, His Command, when He intends a thing, is only that He says to it "Be!" - and it is! (V 36:82)

1. the road-accident patient was a staff member in my workplace and the accident happened on the third day of eid.


2. he sustained broken rib bones(second to the seventh), injured lung and liver (caused by the broken rib bones), broken-into-three thigh bone and fractured right temple skull.


3. his fractured skull was first treated followed by the broken rib bones. after the rib bones operation he got into a coma.


4. his wife was left with six kids to feed and bills to pay while he was in a coma. bank and employer were strictly on business terms.

good people still exist

• to all of you friends who have helped his wife and kids in one way or another, may Allah reward your good deeds.


• to the management team that has helped on different term, may Allah reward us all.

to Allah we belong and to Allah we shall return

• he passed away today in the icu room while his wife was repeating 'lailahaillallah' to his ear and one of us was reading the 'yasin'.


• may Allah forgive him and forgive us