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Life & Wisdom · Q&A

Why repeatedly look at children's picture?

“During a journey, a man kept repeatedly looking at a picture of his children on his phone. Why did he need to look so many times? Once should have been enough.”Asked by نغمہ

He answers at 1:39:00 in The Problem of Evil · 47 sec

His answer, in his own words
1:39:00
maulana, agla sawal aya hai miss naghma se. aik bar aik banda aik safar kar raha tha to safar mein aik sahib thay, to un ka aik aik purs tareeqay se aik cheez hota tha aur bar bar khol ke dekhte thay. woh to mein mein ne socha kya dekhte hain bar bar khol kar ke. to poocha un se to maloom hua ke un ka beta beti ki tasweer thi, us mein dekhte rehte thay. woh yani safar mein bar bar dekh rahe hain woh beta beti ko. to kya zaroorat thi? aik martaba dekh liya, bas ho gaya. to har aadmi ke haal hai ke kuch cheezon ko bhula bhoola hua rehta hai, kuch log yaad rakhta hai, bhula un cheezon ko rehta hai jis ka charcha nahi karta, aur jo charcha karta hai, wohi usay us ko yaad rehti hai.
1:39:47
maulana, agla sawal aya hai maulana iqbal umri ka, tamil nadu se.
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