In the village of Bantva in Gujarat, a young man named Abdul Sattar faces difficult domestic circumstances. When his family's situation worsens, he decides to start a cloth business in Karachi. He goes to the market to buy clothes, but a dispute breaks out between two individuals, and one of them stabs the other. The wounded person falls to the ground, and the onlookers gather around to watch. The injured man eventually succumbs to his wounds.
This incident leaves a mark on Abdul Sattar's heart. He realizes that society consists of three kinds of people: those who harm others, those who watch others suffer, and those who help the wounded. He decides to be among the ones who offer help. Abdul Sattar leaves his cloth business and purchases an ambulance. He puts his name and contact number on it and begins to provide aid to the injured and sick people in Karachi.
He becomes a one-man team, driving the ambulance himself, attending to phone calls, and assisting those in need. He takes the injured and sick to the hospital, greets them, and returns to help others. He places an iron container outside his center, where people passing by drop coins and a few notes to support his cause.
One day, while going to offer Fajr prayer in the mosque, he finds an abandoned child on the doorstep. The mosque's cleric announces that the child will be killed if no one claims it. The people taking the child to harm it are stopped when Abdul Sattar intervenes and saves the child. He decides to take care of the child, and now that child is a high-ranking officer in a bank.
Abdul Sattar's charitable actions continue, and he even arranges funerals for the deceased. However, he faces opposition and is ridiculed by some passersby who see him giving alms to beggars, helping homeless children, and tending to the mentally ill. But he remains undeterred and establishes various welfare institutions, earning recognition even in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2000. His Edhi Foundation becomes the largest welfare organization in the country.
Abdul Sattar fearlessly ventures into places where there are police confrontations or armed groups, and they stop firing upon seeing him. He becomes widely known and respected in the country, with people comparing him to the nation's founding father, Quaid-e-Azam, and the poet Allama Iqbal.
Until 2003, Abdul Sattar Edhi rescues 8,000 bodies from dirty drains and raises 16,000 orphaned children. He arranges the marriages of thousands of girls. Throughout his life, he continues to serve humanity through various welfare institutions. People admire him and show their affection by removing their jewelry and placing it in his charity box. Young individuals give him their motorcycles on the streets, and he sits in his van.
Abdul Sattar Edhi is no longer with us today, but the welfare organizations he established continue to serve humanity. May Allah grant him a place in the highest ranks of Paradise. Ameen.
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