mirror to the blind
A MIRROR TO THE BLIND
An autobiography of Abdul Sattar Edhi by Tehmina Durrani.
A mirror to the blind was an insight in the life of the most dedicated social worker of Pakistan Mr. Abdul Sattar Edhi. Ms Tehmina Durrani wrote this book with the help of over 40 hours of recordings and after two years of effort this book was finally published in 1998.Edhi belonged to a middle class bantva Memon family. His father was twice and his mother once widowed before they married each other. Edhi’s mother was a very generous and a kind hearted woman who always gave the less privileged a very high priority and distributed all the surplus food among them and during these acts of charity she kept Edhi actively involved so that the habit of charity is firmly inculcated in him. It was her remarkable brought up that after growing up Edhi turned out to be such a divine and dedicated social worker. As stated by Edhi himself "the priority she gave to social work was to be the foundation of my future "Edhi was never interested in formal education so he left school after 3rd grade and started working. At the time of partition Edhi’s family, along with other bantava Memons, migrated to Pakistan. Here the rich and powerful memon seths opened the 1st charitable organization known as Bantva Memon dispensary. Edhi voluntarily joined in but after sometime when he observed the discrimination that non-Memon people had to face for acquiring free medicine he couldn’t help but resist. He voiced his opinion saying “humanitarian work loses its significance when you discriminate between the needy” his opinion was met by hostile reactions from the elite. He left the dispensary and opened his own dispensary “Memon voluntary corps” in 1951. This was only as mall beginning of the enormous mission ahead. He bought his 1st ambulance in 1957 and at that time there were only 5 ambulances in the whole province and one actually had to take appointment for their services. He married Bilquise in April 1966
An autobiography of Abdul Sattar Edhi by Tehmina Durrani.
A mirror to the blind was an insight in the life of the most dedicated social worker of Pakistan Mr. Abdul Sattar Edhi. Ms Tehmina Durrani wrote this book with the help of over 40 hours of recordings and after two years of effort this book was finally published in 1998.Edhi belonged to a middle class bantva Memon family. His father was twice and his mother once widowed before they married each other. Edhi’s mother was a very generous and a kind hearted woman who always gave the less privileged a very high priority and distributed all the surplus food among them and during these acts of charity she kept Edhi actively involved so that the habit of charity is firmly inculcated in him. It was her remarkable brought up that after growing up Edhi turned out to be such a divine and dedicated social worker. As stated by Edhi himself "the priority she gave to social work was to be the foundation of my future "Edhi was never interested in formal education so he left school after 3rd grade and started working. At the time of partition Edhi’s family, along with other bantava Memons, migrated to Pakistan. Here the rich and powerful memon seths opened the 1st charitable organization known as Bantva Memon dispensary. Edhi voluntarily joined in but after sometime when he observed the discrimination that non-Memon people had to face for acquiring free medicine he couldn’t help but resist. He voiced his opinion saying “humanitarian work loses its significance when you discriminate between the needy” his opinion was met by hostile reactions from the elite. He left the dispensary and opened his own dispensary “Memon voluntary corps” in 1951. This was only as mall beginning of the enormous mission ahead. He bought his 1st ambulance in 1957 and at that time there were only 5 ambulances in the whole province and one actually had to take appointment for their services. He married Bilquise in April 1966