Mouood Mouood English Edition
Hind said: “the life of deer or hind may end one day. But death is not the end of anything. Life remains the same. Life goes without the desert deer, like a running stream. We have to live with full heart. Get every moment of life to make a good life. Life is beautiful like a running stream but there are ups and downs. Sometimes the happy moments turn into bitter one and sometimes the situation reversed. Always remember that, those children succeed in life who cope the hardships of life, their heart get ready to accept the realities of life and get experience from daily incidents.”
Breeze said closing them: “as there comes spring after winter season and earth becomes green and thriving and forget the harsh cold days of winter. Likewise happy days come after miserable days. We have to show patience only.”
Hind was to go. Children show restlessness. They stopped her way. Mother said to them: “make a promise that you will not follow me. I am afraid that the cruel hunter may harm you.”
Children were not leaving her and were not ready to listen. The air was also nervous on their restlessness. She walks, turned and ran with agitation. Desert was dusty. Birds were afraid. Sky was head down. She saw in desert but nothing was clear. There was dust everywhere. Wind was blowing wildly. She started blaming herself:“what do you do? Your act started to fall the nests from trees and tear the trees.” Then she walks slowly. Everything gets normal. There was only the sound of the crying of children. Instead of all these the hind keep running and getting away from her children. She started crying unconsciously. She was fighting with the grief which had surrounded her whole being. Wind started consoling her while moving with her. Hind said with eyes full of tear: “o’wind! My friend! Don’t ever ignore my children, bring their news to me and deliver my messages to them every day. You are my only hope after Allah.” Wind has promised to provide her all news about her children daily. She heard the voices of her children while she was busy in talking with wind. They were coming to her and were getting closer. She stopped and saw them. They were calling her and coming towards her. Her heart started beating fast. She was afraid that her emotions might stop her from going. Children reached near her with stopped breathing. They surrounded her. Hind said: “did you not make a promise? The older said: “mother, we will not leave you alone in such a bad situation.”
Mother said: “there is danger. There is not safety for you.” Children said insistently: “we don’t want easiness. We want you. We want to live with you.”
Hind was helpless. Children were fully determined and want to face any situation to live with her. Hind said to wing on watching this scene: “say something!” wind said: “believe in God! May be it is in your interest.” she said to her children: “then hurry up as we have got late.” She and her children ran after an unknown fate beside wind. It was expected that their freedom will be ended any time. But they were happy that they were with their mother in her tough time. They were feeling that they were grown up now but they were afraid of the dark future which was unknown to them. Hind was praying for their safety. They were dripping with sweat in the hot sunlight but were moving forward. They were thirsty. There was no spring water far. Heart was beating in worry, the legs had left running. Hind said: “just not so far. We will reach the destination by showing some patience.”
The hunter’s patient was crashed. He was saying something in anger under his lips. He was upbraiding himself: “I know that the hind will not come back.” Kind man prompted him for patience. Imam knew that the hind is coming and her children are also coming with her but the companions of Imam were doubtful of her return. Hunter was blaming himself for his foolishness to let her go to jungle. He was saying:“see! How people are making fun of me.”
It was not long passed when one of the companions of Imam who was viewing far and had made shelter of hands for his eyes from sunlight shouted: “see hind has come, hind!” another man said: “yes, she is coming.”
All companions saw on that side. The hunter turned his face towards that side surprisingly and said:“she is not alone; her children are also with her.”
Imam said to him by smiling: “deer also keep their promise.”
The hunter shake his head as he has got up from a deep sleep. He said on watching this strange incident: “the hind taught me a lesson. I have seen a reality which I didn’t feel before.” Imam said: “life becomes very difficult without generosity, virtues and ethics as one wish for death.”
Then the hind with her children reached tiredly. All encircled them with surprise and praise. Hind looked towards Imam. She was watching with her whole existence. Her heart filled with the fragrance of Imam. There aroused the same feeling which she felt in her first meeting with Imam. She was feeling security in the presence of Imam. She felt as she knows Imam and Imam know her from thousand years. She felt as there is an old relationship. She was surprised that why she was reluctant to it.
Imam leaned towards her gently. He handed her mouth and look into her eyes which were full of loyalty and beauty. Her eyes were shining like agate. Imam who was more loving to mother said: “O’ loyal hind! There is only purity in your eyes. You were not forced to come to not get in trouble.”
There were tears in the eyes of His companions. Hind’s children closed to Imam. They felt satisfaction and peace from getting the fragrance of His being which was spreading everywhere. The fear which they were feeling ended. They were feeling peace even in the presence of the hunter. Imam loved every one. They thought: “how merciful hands.”
Their existence was filled with mercy by looking at His eyes. The hunter moved forward suddenly. His will has been changed now. He said to Imam with respect: “O’ Guarantor of the desert’s hind. O’ the shelter of enormous deer! Who are you with such greatness? What is this love which causes to accept vanity by a run hind? The feeling of Your greatness split like stream of light in hearts. You are the symbol of greatness. O’ kind and pious! O’ second Yousaf! Your glamorous beauty melts the heart of stone. Your miracle has made me your slave. Now I am seeing you by the eyes of my heart. You are the holder of faith, purity and humanity! I am ready to act upon your orders. I will leave the hind for your sake. I will leave the hunting profession so that the animals of desert live a peaceful life. I will manage another job for my livelihood. I will leave hunting from today to not shed the blood of any deer more.
He sat on his knee, kept his arrow and arrow case on the land, touched His gown and tried to stand up while bowing. Imam had extended His hands and he embraced Imam. A strange and sweet feeling had surrounded him. He felt himself so light like birds flying in the air. He reached another world far from his own being. He kissed the shoulder of Imam. He wanted to sleep on His shoulder like a son sleeping on his father’s shoulder. Finally he raised his head. Imam smiled. Imam had honored him with lots of gifts beyond his expectation in the return of his act. He received them from Imam’s hands.
Wind was blowing slowly. The fragrance of basil and flowers spread everywhere. Trees were standing with bowing head and birds were singing. The desert didn’t see such a beautiful scene before. It never saw a hunter leaving hunting. There was the feeling of peace and freedom in desert. The deer stock was standing near the spring water and breeze was telling the story of the hind which got the gift of freedom by the merciful hands of Imam. He said softly in hind’s ear: “you are free, forever. You can go with your children wherever you want.”
The hind remembered a story suddenly. It was an old story of a hind. Her mother had told this story to her, her grandmother told it to her mother and her grand ma from a woman among her relatives. She used to tell it generation to generation. The story was that a relative hind was caught up in the net of an Arabian hunter. A messenger of God was passing from there. She requested the messenger for giving her time to go and feed her children. On the guarantee of the messenger she went and fed her children and come back. The messenger had freed her and she promised that our whole generation will love Him and His whole family forever. That messenger was the ancestor of Imam Reza. Hind said in her heart: “I am unable to pay my thanks to Imam.” She admitted it by looking Imam with smile. There were colorful butterflies on the shoulders of Imam. Hind looked Imam again. She moved forward after thinking a while and ran towards spring water. Her children were running behind her joyfully. The kind face of Imam was imprinted on their hearts forever. The birds started singing again, the branches of trees were diving due to the breeze, the nest were swinging and sun was shining in the wide sky and giving light to inhabitants on earth. Life returned again. Desert was waiting for the return of hind to celebrate her freedom warmly. Birds were chirping and singing lovely songs. Hind was near spring water and other deer were busy in praising her. All were jealous of her as she was blessed with life and freedom with the mercy of the kind man which was precious.
