Naveed Siddiqui
2 min readMay 20, 2021

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Daughters are also a mercy, a guest

From the hospital I informed this daughter that

“The tooth has been examined. Now it is being extracted.”

He replied, “Mashaallah! Come check my eyes too.”

“Okay, send your eyes,” I joked.

What he wrote made me wet. He wrote “

“I see through your eyes right now.”

The one who sees with our eyes today is going to see her world from another angle. She is leaving her father’s house and going home. This is she that I haven’t known for years. He didn’t bother so much. Where she sat, sat down, gave, ate, wore, wore.

Today I think that maybe she learned to be patient or maybe to protest silently at that time. It was realized that in a serious accident, the skin from his forehead to the middle of his head fell off like a scab. The girl with her mouth shut was probably open-minded. The habit of asking questions, the search for answers did not surprise me as much as it bothered her teachers. They come to the conclusion that the girl asks a lot of questions. And then it happened that this girl became the most literate in my house. By the grace of Allah, he saved his parents, sister-in-law and nieces more than expected. He endured his brother’s playful temper. I believe that if service, love and endurance are given a name, it is the beautiful, pure and fragrant name of this daughter.

When the date of her departure was fixed, seeing our sadness, the granddaughter said, “Grandpa!! If she leaves, I will grow up. I will make a table for you, prepare breakfast and give medicine to Grandma .” I know. She will try to do all this, she will make her place in our hearts and time but she will not be able to fill the empty space of her little aunt. May God keep her aunt in her memory, bless her with endless happiness, Amen !

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Naveed Siddiqui
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Naveed Siddiqui, a poet, writer, thinker from Pakistan.