Bitcoin is the world's most expensive currency with less cash reserves than Elias Rickshaw. Uber is the world's largest taxi company with the same number of cars as Elias Rickshaw. Facebook is the world's largest social media web. Alibaba is the largest retail store in the world with no inventory like Elias Rickshaw and Airbnb currently has the largest number of hotel rooms in the world. It rents out its hotel rooms to zero like Elias's rickshaw.
Elias Rakshawala is a Sunni Muslim by birth who was told that all the universal truths of the world are hidden in Islam and its user manual Quran but in the eighth grade when Elias Rakshawala in the Urdu translation of this book his social, intellectual and economic When he tried to find out the reasons for the exploitation, he found out that like the above companies, Islam also outsources its selling items, ie intellect. Elias Rakshawala is very worried and anxious about the situation if he has to solve all the problems of his life. If he has to find out for himself, then by memorizing the prayer before cutting his nails or the prayer of going to the bathroom in Arabic, he will get the reward of which nafls and if he gets it, will he convert this reward into some form And whether or not he will be able to feed his wife and children without driving a rickshaw, and when he sees that no money changer is willing to wash his reward currency with the currency notes he has in spite of faith and a beard, then Elias The rickshaw puller's heart gets sour and he smokes a gold flake cigarette. Keeps moving forward.
Elias the rickshaw puller had obtained a rickshaw from the National Bank in installments and even after paying the installment, he still has enough money to cover his stomach and the patience of his family, but one day when he was at Yusuf Khan's hotel. While drinking evening tea, he heard Jamil Anwar, the headmaster of a government school, say that it is haraam to take things in installments from a bank because it involves interest and there is an open war between usurers and usurers. When Elias heard this, he wondered if he was feeding himself and his family with haraam sustenance, but at night when his daughter Alina, son Ahmed and wife Raqiyah ate bread with potato broth and ate it. Master Jamil Anwar's words seemed completely wrong to him. He thought that no madrassa or mosque, which had collected millions of rupees in donations, had ever given him money to buy a rickshaw and when the bank rickshaw started driving his life. So religion began to suffer from its employment.
Elias the rickshaw puller is beginning to feel that he is slowly becoming secular because religion is adding to his difficulties in the struggle of his life. He does not have money for new clothes for Alina and Ahmed on Eid even though he He has heard that items are sold abroad for Christmas at the price of pennies. He picks clothes from the back wall of Mayo Hospital Lahore for his family on Eid and prays to the unknown British. One day a university Student Ehsan had told him on the way to New Campus that Thirft stores are set up in various places in the United States and Europe from where the needy can get their necessities for free. Is developing a soft corner for and it hurts whenever religious parties burn the flag of the United States or Israel on the issue of Palestine.
He often has to pay Rs. 500 to the policemen at the checkpoints and when he hears in the Geo Headlines at Yusuf Khan's hotel at 6 pm that so many policemen have been martyred in such and such an operation, he would be very happy Yes. He also regrets his happiness, but in spite of the remorse, it is beyond his comprehension for the person inside him to be happy. Elias does not offer the five prayers in the rickshaw, but sometimes he offers the Friday prayers due to the conditioning of his childhood. One day he heard Maulvi Abdul Qudoos in his Friday sermon saying that family planning is haraam for fear of hunger. Seeing the precision and glory of his accent, Elias was once frightened and helplessly took off his blue shalwar kameez. Under
He put it in his pocket, which contained a packet of condoms in a brown envelope. He thought that if he had more children, Maulvi Abdul Qaddos would give them food and education, and when his street wisdom answered this question in the negative. He completed the rite of passage and went home without donating, putting his hand in his pocket.
Eight months have passed since this incident but he has never seen the face of Maulvi Abdul Qaddos again because he thinks that the chaos created by the teachings of Maulvi Sahib in his daily routine cannot be tolerated. Elias Rakshawala used to fast for the first time, but once he missed his summer fast because he could not open his eyes at three o'clock in the morning. In the afternoon, he installed a bungalow in front of a bungalow in Model Town to pay his respects to the late Sheikh Afzal Ahmed. He stopped his rickshaw in front of the electric water cooler and drank a glass of cold water in a chained steel glass. He was just wiping his face with his sleeve when he was attacked by a group of clerics armed with beards and sticks. He was beaten to death for making fun of the common rites of Islam and his rickshaw tires were blown out.
After this incident, he repented of both fasting and eating and drinking in Ramadan. Surprisingly, his wife, Ruqayyah, also saw him and stopped fasting, and he did not have to worry about the cost of Sahar and Iftar. One day, while searching for the rickshaw puller, Chaudhry Atif Gujjar, the councilor of his area, came and put Rs. 3,000 in his hand and said that it was Zakat money and he wanted to help a white man with that money. Elias rickshaw puller did not like the word white for himself despite the fact that his self-esteem and self-respect were severely hurt. He returned his three thousand rupees to Councilor Chaudhry Atif and while thinking this while on holiday. The children went to school to cook, so why did the one above play a system of playing with the self-esteem of the poor with so little money.
One day, Ehsan, a university student who told him about the Thirt Stores, got on his rickshaw to go to the new campus again. Elias put all his confusion in front of him, lit a Marlborough lights cigarette and started smiling. He offered Elias a drink of milk mixed with him in the canteen of the New Campus and told him that all the religions of the world were man-made and that the clerics, priests and priests had carved out the character of God to frighten mankind. Elias came to hear this. He swallowed and asked Ihsan who made this sky, stars, moon, sun and universe. On this Ihsan asked him if the universe was made by God. Then who made God. Elias never understood this question and he started peeking at his armpits. His meeting with Ehsan lasted for two hours but this one meeting changed the course of his life.
He had lost his faith in God, and on his way back, he was watching the orbit at the turn of the beggar wall, where the dancing monkey, according to Ehsan, was an evolutionary relative in the opinion of a Maron (Darwin), but Elias was thinking at the time that there was no difference between a man dancing on the drum of religion and a man dancing on the drum of the orbit. He ignored the hand gesture and started running empty rickshaws on the streets with a new sense of freedom. done .
(Sohail khan)