A Children's Story
"The Land of Forgetulness": "There was once a King with a vast kingdom. He was a very great King, good, fair, just, merciful, loved deeply by all his subjects, by all the creatures in His kingdom.His was not an ordinary kingdom. He ruled over all of nature, the mountains, streams, skies, and the wide earth whose strength supported all of these.
The King was loved deeply by all his subjects who knew well his continuous kindness and mercy.
One day the King called all of His subjects to come before Him. They all came willingly and from among their numbers each group chose a representative to stand before the King. The mountains chose the firmest and mightiest among them to go forward as their representative. The skies chose the strongest wind and in like manner each group sent forward their chosen representative.
The King said He had a task, a test, 'a trust', a difficult undertaking, and He wanted to see who among His subjects would undertake this task.
The task was to journey through a faraway land known as the land of forgetfulness.
Anyone who entered this land forgot who they were, where they came from, even why they came to that land.
And even though that land was also part of the kingdom, the visible signs of the King were concealed and disguised in that land. Those who entered there became so forgetful and distracted that they forgot their beloved King and forgot that He had set them a task.
Only those who were able to look deep into their hearts would be able to remember their King and their task, because the forgetfulness was like a thick fog that clouded their minds."
(by Irshaad Hussain)
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home