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Purposeful Man
A
N
EDUCATED
M
USLIM
who is actively involved in
dawah work got his daughter married to someone
who was living in the west. After marriage the
girl left for her husband’s home. She lived there
for some years, and a son was born to her. But
due to some disagreements with her husband, the
girl became angry, left her husband and returned
to India to her parents. The girl’s complaints about
her husband convinced her father and he came
to believe that all the blame lay at the door of her
husband.
When I met the father, I heard the whole story
and then I said: “it is the heart of a father which
speaks and not the heart of the dayee in you.” He
said that he had made many efforts to make his
son-in-law understand, but he found him to be
quite adamant. He said: “I won’t change; your
daughter has to adjust to me.”
I said all such kinds of differences took place
in a married life. Then I said that there were two
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