how strange!
English book, p. 293
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
HOW STRANGE! Every day, God leads some ‘passenger’ to the grave, while the passenger thinks he is heading to ‘delhi’. however, human beings learn no lesson from this. They still think that their destination is ‘delhi’, not death. HOW STRANGE! If the fear of the Hereafter awakens in someone, it will move his whole personality mobilizing all the latent powers. an indian aeroplane flew from Bangkok to Bombay on June 3, 1984. it was a Boeing 747 with four engines and 152 passengers on board. The plane had just reached into the air when one of its engines caught fire. Captain verma landed the plane at a nearby airport, don Muang. after twenty minutes of take-off, the plane was back on the ground. The plane landed safely on the runway with the pilot’s vigilance, where firefighters were already present on the scene after receiving electronic information. however, many passengers were injured and were immediately taken to hospital. The cause of the injury was not the plane; instead, according to the reports published in the Times of India (June 4, 1984), the reason was: Most injuries were due to passengers rushing for the emergency exit from where they descended through a chute.

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