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Here is a truly inspiring story by the renowned writer, Munshi Premchand.
The Goddess
The night was drenched. I stood in the veranda. The Aminuddin Dula Park before me was shrouded in darkness. Only one woman was seated on a cushioned bench. A fakir stood at the roadside, outside the park, offering blessings to passersby. "By God and the Prophet... by Ram and God... have mercy on this blind man."
The rush of cars and carriages on the road had ceased. Only a few people were visible. The fakir's voice, once like a dove's cooing in a drum, was now a powerful cry in the open space. Suddenly, the woman rose, looked around cautiously with her eyes, placed something in the fakir's hand, and then walked away, saying something very softly. A piece of paper was in the fakir's hand, which he was repeatedly rubbing. Had the woman given him this paper?
What was this mystery? Impelled by curiosity, I descended and stood near the fakir.
Noticing my presence, the fakir pressed the paper with two fingers and showed it to me, asking, "Baba, look, what is this?"
I saw it - a ten-rupee note! I said, "It's a ten-rupee note. Where did you find it?"
The fakir put the note in his pouch and said, "Some devotee of God has given it."
I and others said something more. I hurried towards the woman, who now seemed like a dream in the dark.
She walked through several alleys and stopped at the door of a dilapidated, tumbledown house, opened the door and went inside.
Not feeling right to question her further at night, I returned.
All night, my thoughts were fixed on her. At dawn, I again reached that alley. I learned that she was a poor widow.
I went to the door and called, "Devi, I have come to see you." The woman came out. A living picture of poverty and helplessness, I stammered, "Last night, at the fakir's... "
"Oh, what a strange thing," Devi interrupted. "I found that note lying there. What use was it to me?"
I bowed my head before Devi's feet.
And so ends this inspiring story by the great writer, Munshi Premchand. This story teaches us many valuable lessons. The entire subkuz team strives to offer our visitors daily inspirational stories. Continue reading such inspirational and knowledge-enriching stories on subkuz.com.
