The Wonder of Hard Work

about day and night to earn enough so his children could study. In a meeting on June 26, 1991, he said, “For years, I wandered Delhi’s streets like a madman, just to work and earn enough money to pay for my children’s education.” The same circumstances that turned Akhtar Hussain into a hero also made his children hardworking. Every one of them began to study with full dedication. Each child began by standing first in his class. This struggle continued for about twenty years. Today, all of his children are achieving high levels of success. WISDOM T o understand how corrupt today’s society has become, read this incident. The Indian Express (July 24, 1987, page 3) carried a news item from New Delhi with the headline: Son Kills Mother as She Refuses to Pay 500 The news said that on July 21, 1987, a 23-year-old youth, Ashok Kumar, asked his mother, Sheela, for 500 rupees. The mother refused. As a result, Ashok Kumar lost his temper. There was a stone slab in the house. He picked it up and smashed it on his mother’s head. Her skull split open, and she died. Then Ashok Kumar put his mother’s body in an iron box, locked it, and washed away the bloodstains. When his brother and sister came home in the evening, he told