Preparing for the future.
It’s been quite a while since my last posting. Many things have happened since then. I lost a dear friend less than a month after Eid ul Adha. When I was back in my village during that occasion we had had a late dinner. I never thought that it was to be our last supper. He was his usual self, and happily telling me how well his homeopathic practise was doing. He was planning to send his eldest son to Syria to pursue his studies. It was to be some time this month.
However Allah has something else planned for him. Weeks later, my dear friend suffered a stroke…and hours later he was gone. His son, the one supposed to go to Syria, called me up and broke the dreadful news. During his funeral prayer I couldn’t stop my tears from flowing. I couldn’t help thinking about my own demise. What if Allah has taken me instead?
This thought usually enters one’s mind when attending a funeral especially as one grows older. We begin to think of the things that we have done and the loved ones that we will leave behind. Three of my homeopathic practising friends have left this world and their practise died with them. Now I feel that it is important that I prepare someone to carry on my practise. Without delay, I asked my son to come back from Eqypt to continue his homeopathic studies and also to intern at my clinic. He needs to know the ins and out of this business before it is too late. Alhamdulillah, it has been a month now and he is a great help both at home and at the office. Hopefully when it is my time to go, things would be in place and my patients will still have a homeopathic practise to come to.