Bed time story - II

Once upon a time there was a small village where lived a couple in their sweet little home. The man belonged to a very honorable and royal family, his father was the King of the village in his time and then his elder brother was nominated to be the next king but there were many evil and cruel people in village who after the death of King, illegally occupied the kingdom and started harassing the noble family and troubled them in different ways, at last poisoned his elder brother and completely under-taken the kingdom. The leader of that cruel assembly will be regarded as the most disgraceful animal in the history of mankind.

The noble man was a pious and virtuous person and had no greed of kingdom; for the sake of peace he began to lead a life of seclusion. He remained busy peacefully teaching and propagating the precepts of good deeds and of worship and devotion to Allah. His wife was also from very noble tribe and was daughter of the chief of that tribe. Both of them were living happily and were waiting for the gift of Allah, the man use to pray a lot in his night prayers as he wanted a baby girl. One fine day they were blessed with a lovely, beautiful, charming little angel, the baby girl was such an innocent & adorable that entire family celebrated her birth and especially her uncle (father’s brother) was more than happy on her birth.

Since her birth she was sweetheart of all family members, her uncle use to love her more than his children and used to take very good care of her and would not rest until he satisfied all her requests. There was definitely a special bond between them. Similarly her father could not live without seeing her and often heard to say, "A house without her would not be worth living in!” Daily when she went to bed at night she wanted to spend some time with her father. Her father use to tell her stories of her ancestors specially battles fought by her grand-father, she would rest her head on her father's chest and her father would not move from her until she fell asleep.

As the sweet baby grew up she was different from other girls of her age, she was a very religious girl and enjoyed reading the Holy Quran since her childhood and never missed her prayers. From the age of two she took great care to make sure that her head and face were properly covered when in public.

Life was wonderful and days were passing with happiness and joy. Like all other children, she was also enjoying her childhood and was spreading happiness in entire family with her sweet and innocent smiles.

One day when her father returned home he asked all family members to get ready for a journey as the evil people of the village had started teasing and demanded for unlawful things. As a noble man he cannot admit cruel wishes and decided to relocate from the village. Along with all family members including women and children, a group was formed under leadership of the noble man and his brother and they started their journey to an unknown place. The sweet little girl was relaxed and enjoying the journey with her parents, uncle and other family members.

On other end those wicked people of the village were not happy with noble man’s decision as he did not obey to their unlawful wishes so they decided to trap the entire family and torture them; they prepared an army of thousands and sent them to catch the noble family. After several months the army found them in a remote area of a different country and blocked their way to proceed further. The noble man tried a lot to explain them the right path but all the animals in that army were faithless and did not understood the preaching of noble man. At last when noble man did not accepted their evil wishes they decided to show their wickedness and then the universe witnessed the most dreadful humiliation in history.

The sweet little girl, unaware of all those happenings, one day came to know that there is no water and food left in their belongings and all other sources of water were cut down by the evil army, the little angel along with other children remained hungry and thirsty for several days but did not panic, at night she must have gone to her father to sleep on his chest and his father must have told her to remain patient and leave everything to Allah, but that was just the beginning, after couple of days the evil army started a battle and in single day they killed all the healthy males of that group, the poor little girl witnessed the martyrdom of her beloved father, uncles, brothers and other family members and then came the most horrified evening where the little angel was all alone between the sinful people of evil army. Instead of comforting words the little girl was slapped and her dress was put on fire by the tyrannical forces. At this age when children are free from all worldly issues, the innocent girl was tortured on highest level which is beyond imagination of a normal person.

With tied rope around her neck, she was then forced to travel to a different country for many days and then imprisoned in a dark, unclean room. The little princess remained there for several months in hope to return home some day; she was very frightened with darkness in that underground cell. Daily at night she remembered her father’s chest before sleeping and her aunt use to console her that one day she’ll meet with her father.

After so many trials and humiliations one day while the little princess was asleep she saw that her father had come to take her with him, with a smile on her face after several months, she happily held her father’s hand and went away from this disgusting world. She was greeted very warmly by all family members, ancestors and all the angels. After facing all difficulties and sufferings at last the little princess met her father again and now resting on her father’s chest peacefully.