Appraisal – For Khalid (ra) by Umar (ra)
The seventy long years hasn’t stolen much of the memories from his life, reclining on an easy chair sipping a warm tea, watching the greenery around, breathing the fresh air and occasionally the steam from the tea cup, the aroma of freshness, the calm surroundings only interrupted by flutter of birds wings when they land on the courtyard. He had seen ups and downs, turbulences, turmoil’s, turn of fortunes, victories and victors, failures and losers, achievements and mishaps, some one who has seen and been through it all. He goes back in time to days as a professional, the days he was promoted and the reminders of the excitement brings to his lips a silent voluntarily smile, he recollects the day when some one else was promoted whom he considered as worthless, instead of a resentment what appears in his face is an expression of gratitude. Fueled by an event which happened later on where this promoted colleague helped him in difficult circumstances, although not all of such experiences w...
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