Ethics & Morality

A friend narrated a story that lowered me as a Pakistani and Muslim in my own eyes. He asked for 3 kilos of tomatoes and when the greengrocer started picking them all up from one corner of the crate only going lower and lower, he asked him admonishingly to pick the larger and better ones from the top layer of crate only.  To this the grocer showing him two tomatoes one taken from the top and the other from the bottom said,  “Sahib, don’t worry, this crate is from India and they pack the same size and quality of tomatoes in all the layers”.

Now for God sake don’t tell me that the Hindus learnt it from the Muslims whereas we have forsaken the practice !!!

Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)