Umm
18th May 2007, 04:58 PM
The story is about a brother who is imprisoned in Pakistan. I am writing it from memory; it is as accurate as I can recall hearing it.
The brother once related the following story regarding a cat that used to visit his cell. He would feed her from his own food, and carry her etc. One-day, he picked up one of her kittens, without thinking. The cat immediately pounced and clawed his face. She missed his eye by a few millimeters. Needless to say, he dropped the kitten at once!
Later, the brother remarked, "This cat, her sustenance comes from my food. Yet as soon as she perceived a threat to one of her offspring, she pounced and attacked me. And I thought to myself, look at our Ummah. She is being raped and attacked, yet we do not feel the compulsion to defend her, as much as this cat did for her young."
The brother once related the following story regarding a cat that used to visit his cell. He would feed her from his own food, and carry her etc. One-day, he picked up one of her kittens, without thinking. The cat immediately pounced and clawed his face. She missed his eye by a few millimeters. Needless to say, he dropped the kitten at once!
Later, the brother remarked, "This cat, her sustenance comes from my food. Yet as soon as she perceived a threat to one of her offspring, she pounced and attacked me. And I thought to myself, look at our Ummah. She is being raped and attacked, yet we do not feel the compulsion to defend her, as much as this cat did for her young."