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Bismihi Ta’ala

I was always fascinated by the famous story by O. Henry, called The Gift of the Magi, where the man sold his watch to buy his wife’s comb, while she sold her hair to buy a watch chain for him. The ever-green story has touched a million hearts because it is woven around the treasured human characters- love, sacrifice, kindness, innocence, compassion and selflessness. The characters which made the author call the couple- ‘the magi’.
It is the advent of an era in which, as Stephen Hawking predicted, the artificial intelligence will take over the world, and it seems to be happening. However, at the end of the day when a man needs a loving shoulder, he never turns up to Siri. He, rather, hugs a friend, who with a tender word or two heals all his pain. It is what makes us humans, this precious chest of love, care and the small acts of kindness. It is the thing which stretches a line between being Teresa and being Hitler. It is something which holds the potential to change a person, to change the world. An example for the same can be rummaged up from history where the grandson of Prophet Muhammad, Husain, quenched the thirst of his desert beaten enemies, a kind gesture which made the commander of the enemy’s battalion repent and he embraced the path of salvation. Marvel taught us that Iron Man doesn’t have a heart. I disagree. An iron man, rather, has a heart of gold.
"I'm more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy,” with these lines Lionel Messi has made me realize why alchemists could never make the philosopher’s stone. This is because immortality can only be achieved by being a good human being.

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Nida Zahra
 Class IX