A Villager who related with my Book! 15th August, 2017

This villager from a Chak (Village) in Okara named Ali Ahmed made my day!!

I'd given a copy of my book to the Chowkidar of the house I visited. Ali Ahmed is the Chowkidar (guard) of a house on the back side of the house I visited. 

So when I stopped my car on the back side of the house to take a photograph and was about to sit in the car this person walked up to me and said, "Are you Aamir?...Aamir Iqbal?.....Aamir Iqbal Yazdani?" 

This caught my attention and I replied, "Yes. Do you know me?" 

He said, "I've read your book with the guard and I recognized your face! I wanted to meet you and say that I relate to your story!! Also though I am an illiterate person I do Punjabi Sufi poetry! I also relate to your story!!!"

This actually was one of the most intense moments for me in life!! I was recognized through my book by the son of the soil - an illiterate villager belonging to a Chak in Okara!!! This gave me a most consummate feeling of richness than being recognized by a famous person!!! I felt there and then, the purpose of my book has been accomplished!

This is exactly what my book is about - being a traveller in the quest for truth. We all have our backgrounds, opportunities, colour, caste, creed, and religion but we ALL have ONE thing in common. We all can be and, should be, travellers in the quest for truth. 

I feel the message in my book has reached home!

I asked him to narrate his Punjabi poetry to me! 

Aamir Yazdani