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go back to sleep himself? “
Well if I
woke mummy up I would be disturb-
ing her sleep and she needs all the
rest she can get
,” Sharaf-ud-Din
thought to himself, “
But if I simply
leave the water by her bedside she
might role over and topple the bowl,
or she might not see it and not want
to awaken me again. What am I to
do?
”
The little boy decided to wait by her
bedside with the bowl in his hands
until she awoke.
Minutes passed ... hours passed ...
the whole night passed by ... and
still little Sharaf-ud-Din waited
patiently with the water at his moth-
ers side. Finally his mother awoke
just as the first light of dawn paled
the sky, and to her surprise, there
was her beloved son at her bedside.
“
How long have you been standing
