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By Mihar Dias (C) Copyright February 2023
Imagine yourself a handicapped who has not left your house on your own for more than four years, receiving an automatic battery operated wheelchair at your own doorsteps one morning, courtesy of a good samaritan, how would you feel?
Kamaruddin, partly paralysed because of muscular dystrophy and autoimmune disease has been house bound for more than four years. Although he has an old manual wheelchair he does not have the strength to push with his own partly paralysed hands to go anywhere on his own.
He would have to be pushed by someone while in the wheelchair just to move out of his own bedroom. Usually it's his wife. Sometimes his children do help to push him out into the front yard to watch his garden grow.
Imagine his excitement when a truck delivered an automatic battery operated wheelchair that he could handle by himself. Once in the seat, he is able to move on to the road in his housing area by himself.
Kamaruddin is over the moon because there is still a good samaritan, a charitable or helpful person in this world who is willing to donate his money to buy a relatively expensive wheelchair but does not want anyone to know.
So, Kamaruddin is sworn into secrecy, refusing to say a word about this mysterious donor who does not want to make public his charitable act.
He says, "Only God knows!"
Kamaruddin tells us, "Allah is All Knowing. He leads someone kind enough to my doorsteps with this wheelchair to allow me to go out on my own. Also, to be at the mosque once again without having to bother my wife and family. I am happy to drive along my taman (housing area) to say hello to my neighbours again. But most of all I feel a new sense of freedom to be able to move about and get out of the house on my own after being cooped up for four years in my room. I am so blessed!"
It does not take much to make a handicap person like Kamaruddin happy. Just an automatic battery operated wheelchair. The mysterious donor knows that too.
We know that as well, but does the government care?
The bureaucrats might learn something from this good samaritan on how to put a smile on faces of many like Kamaruddin who are imprisoned in their own home, rendered immobile because they do not have the means to get out on their own.
You and I may want to emulate the kindness shown by this charitable soul as a motivation to help another handicapped person gain freedom by donating a wheelchair or other tools to "liberate" them from being house bound for years.
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