Each or then should I say every single one of us would do well to emulate the 72 year Agra resident Liyakat Ali and tread upon the path that he has laid out for us.......
At a time when man made barriers of caste; creed; religion; hate; violence and fratricide are ruling the roost; the above mentioned septagenarian has set a sterling example for others to follow and replicate.......
Mr. Ali who has been married to his second wife Kirpa Devi for the last 36 and a bit years showed one and all that humanity is the only true religion and divinely sentiment by performing the last rites of his deceased second wife at Mathura's Moksha Dham early on Tuesday morning.......
According to Arif (Liyakat Ali's 34 year old son) his illustrious father was hopelessly besotted with his "second" mother and mustered up the courage and conviction to defy both his family; fellow villagers and disapproving members of his own religious denomination by marrying her as per Hindu traditions and bringing her home with the official sanction and approval of his doting and golden hearted first wife who happens to be a Mohammedan........
Our family lived in perfect harmony and my beloved step or second mother under the same roof and every other family member more than willingly participated in Holi; Diwali; Dussehra; and other festivals and festivities with her as she did not have any children of her own and smothered me and my two other siblings with unadulterated love and maternal affection.........
Her health however took a turn for the worse in recent months and she breathed her last at a local government hospital a little after 11 pm on Monday night following a prolonged illness; a morose and heartbroken Arif concludes........
A living example/travesty/embodiment of the age old and much vilified dictum about "unity in diversity" me says and doffs his hat to this gallant soul who always put a premium on humanity rather than succumbing to societal and other religious pulls and pressures that were exerted on him for the last 36 years and more........
At a time when man made barriers of caste; creed; religion; hate; violence and fratricide are ruling the roost; the above mentioned septagenarian has set a sterling example for others to follow and replicate.......
Mr. Ali who has been married to his second wife Kirpa Devi for the last 36 and a bit years showed one and all that humanity is the only true religion and divinely sentiment by performing the last rites of his deceased second wife at Mathura's Moksha Dham early on Tuesday morning.......
According to Arif (Liyakat Ali's 34 year old son) his illustrious father was hopelessly besotted with his "second" mother and mustered up the courage and conviction to defy both his family; fellow villagers and disapproving members of his own religious denomination by marrying her as per Hindu traditions and bringing her home with the official sanction and approval of his doting and golden hearted first wife who happens to be a Mohammedan........
Our family lived in perfect harmony and my beloved step or second mother under the same roof and every other family member more than willingly participated in Holi; Diwali; Dussehra; and other festivals and festivities with her as she did not have any children of her own and smothered me and my two other siblings with unadulterated love and maternal affection.........
Her health however took a turn for the worse in recent months and she breathed her last at a local government hospital a little after 11 pm on Monday night following a prolonged illness; a morose and heartbroken Arif concludes........
A living example/travesty/embodiment of the age old and much vilified dictum about "unity in diversity" me says and doffs his hat to this gallant soul who always put a premium on humanity rather than succumbing to societal and other religious pulls and pressures that were exerted on him for the last 36 years and more........
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