Forkan’s extraordinary example
That one can in one's own way, small or big, be helpful to fellow beings, has been very eloquently demonstrated by Mohammad Forkan Ali. Here is an autorickshaw owner of Gazipur who does the most exemplary job of giving free rides to the poor and helpless and the physically challenged in his own autorickshaw bought with money borrowed from a cousin. He serves poor patients and victims of road accidents by carrying them to various hospitals from their homes and from the various accident location. And he travels long distances often to reach an accident site or a hospital.
Forkan was inspired to serve the needy after his own return from the jaws of death, having been given up as dead by the doctors and his relatives when suddenly, by an act of Providence, he regained consciousness. Forkan has proved too that kindness has no correlation with affluence, privilege or one's social standing. It has to do with the feeling of empathy for others.
At a time when most of us are engaged in a rat race with hardly any time to glance at our neighbour, here we have a man of very modest means using his only ostensible means of income to help others. When government healthcare has become a costly affair and ambulance service comes at a cost, Forkan's outstretched hands to the needy should be a lesson for the rich and the affluent to replicate his example. It doesn't have to be big or ostentatious, and such charitable acts can begin at home. If more people come up with such idea of helping the physically challenged in every locality, that might ameliorate the distress of many of the less fortunate in the society. By doing for others Forkan has practically demonstrated Cicero's wise words, "Not for ourselves alone are we born".We need more of such heroes in society.
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