Surely you must have often seen elderly people working, sometimes driving rickshaws, sometimes standing by the roadside selling fruits or vegetables, their frail and weak bodies toiling in the scorching sun or the biting cold. Have you ever asked them...!! Why are they doing this work??? Do they enjoy working? Don't they have a son? Or don't they want to sleep and sit comfortably at home? Are they doing this work happily? Or out of compulsion? Surely their answer will be that it is out of compulsion._
This is also the story of such an elderly man who used to drive a rickshaw. He was driving the rickshaw in the scorching sun during the hot summer days, a weak body that could not even support itself was driving the rickshaw.
 He was very old and his rickshaw was also somewhat broken. Sometimes I felt afraid that the rickshaw might overturn._
I asked him, "Grandfather, why do you drive a rickshaw? Is there no one else in your house to earn a living? Or don't you have sons??" The answer that the old man gave struck a chord in my heart. My heart became involuntarily saddened for the old man. He probably said that he has three or four sons, all of whom are married. All are busy with their wives and children. No one asks about us. They listen to their wives and they don't care about us. His daughter is also married and lives in her own home. This old man and his wife are alone. He said, "Who will pay for our expenses..??" To pay for our expenses, to feed ourselves, for medicine and treatment, we have to earn a living. Even at this age, we have to go out of the house and endure hardship._
I felt very sorry to hear that, but what could I do now! 
 Anyway, we should take care of such elderly people and whenever you do any business with such people, a disabled person or an elderly person, give them some extra wages. This will not reduce their suffering, it will not stop them from working, but it will definitely help them a little._
It is a pity for such children for whom the same parents become a burden who sacrificed all their desires for them, gave them priority over themselves, worried about their future, their future, worried about giving them good food, good clothes, good education and a good life._
And when parents reach this delicate stage of life, the same sons forget all the favors of their parents, become oblivious to their sufferings, and become busy in their lives with their wives and children, or you can say that this is not negligence but insensitivity. Why do they forget that the same time will come upon them, they will also be in the same stage of life one day, the world is a recompense for actions, whatever you have done will definitely come back to you, your children will also treat you the same way, then you will regret it but then there will be no benefit, by then it will be too late._

The mountain of need does not let me get tired.
My children do not let me grow old....

💫Bint-e-Shahab✍🏻