Negligence took the life of Mumin
Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 10:51 am
Subject: ‘AWARENESS’
My name is Ahmed Jariwala, and would like to bring to your attention the unjustified, undignified and painful death that my brother, Huzaifa (29 years) suffered at Hasanpir Dargah due to the lack of proper procedures in place. Below is a brief account of his last few hours.
On the night of 7th June, Huzaifa reached Hasanpir Dargah to spend the night and then was planning to leave the next day for Ahmedabad to attend the Urs majlis of Qutbuddin Shaheed. His reason for being there was that he became a father of a baby girl only 11 days ago, and wanted to go do shukar ziyarat at Galiakot, Hasanpir and Ahmedabad. He opted to stay in the hall which was next to the roza Mubarak.
· 1:30 am: He felt something slide past his body and saw a small snake just slide past him. He was not sure whether it had bit him but managed to throw it out with a broom. He immediately called us at home and told us what had happened.
· 2:30 am: He called us and said that he was feeling weak, we advised him to wake the people around him (2 people were sleeping in the room as well), but no one responded. He then went to the watchman who refused to ‘disturb’ the mulla sahib. After This, He decided to leave that hall and moved to the new one which is above the FAIZ. As we were in continuous conversation on phone, we knew on what he was going thru.
· With out knowing the fact, an antibiotic was provided with the hand of security guard and told “ Ane kehjo Aa lai lo thik thai jase (Eat this and you will be alright)” – Clear point of negligence.
· 3:30 am: He called us, and was hardly able to speak. I had left Pune wanting to reach Hasanpir ASAP. My mama had also left from Gondal which was several hours away. My mother advised him to drink some water, or taste khake-shifa. His reply was “Every body is sleeping there is no one who is awake.”
· 3:30 am to 4:30 am: We constantly called the Hasanpir dargah office, we called the mobile number of the mulla sahib, but no one picked up or responded.
· 4:30 am: He called my mama, his last phone call ever – “MAMA TAME KYA CHO TAME JALDI AVO MANE TAMAREE JAROORAT CHHE” (Mama, where are you, I desperately need you…).Meanwhile one mumena woke up on seeing Huzaifa she immediately went to her husband and told the situation.
· 5:00 am: I called Huzaifa and found that someone else picked the phone and were taking him to the nearby medical centers for help, in their own car. Over the next hour or so, they went to two places, which refused to admit him.
· 6:20 am: I got a call that my brother, had passed away.
The pathetic sequence of events had not stopped. After this, the aim was to give him a dignified burial, without hurting his body more. We were told by Hasanpir officials that Huzaifa cannot be buried there, and you have to take him ‘elsewhere.’ They said that the mulla sahib, who was there HAD to go to Ahmedabad in the afternoon for the Urs majlis and he CAN NOT wait to bury him. Apparently the majlis was more important. They suggested to take him some place few kms away. My father did not want to bury my brother anywhere, and we went to the Pune Amilsaheb Abdeali Bhai Saheb. He called Shz. Huzefabhai Saheb who then called Hasanpir. After they received this call, they arranged everything for us. They arranged to bury him at Hasanpir itself, they also did arz in hazrat of Maula Burhanuddin (TUS) for dua, and gave a galef of Hasanpir maula to cover his fresh kabr.
We were not able to reach Hasanpir before his burial. My mama from gondal reached there, and then my kaka from Junagadh reached there by evening. Looking at the body, which was green, and swelling in the kafan, they decided that huzaifa could not be kept anymore and had to be buried. I reached Hasanpir by 12pm in the night (as I had travelled till Mumbai when I got the news) and my parents and his wife, 11 day old daughter reached by 2:30 am the next morning. 25 hours after the snake had bit him.
My reason for writing this letter is not to complain. I have accepted that my brother is dead. I have accepted that his 11 month old marriage is over. I have accepted that his daughter of 11 days will never know her father. I have accepted that I have to struggle to provide the basic necessities to my family. I have accepted that I am the only person to support my parents, my bhabhi, my neice, my wife and my unborn child.
But, I cannot help in questioning the total lack of vigilance and activeness of people who run these dargahs? We are a community who boasts 100% literacy rates, and yet there were no emergency procedures at the dargah. Throughout the dargah, there was no emergency system, medical, fire or anything. Gujarat has an emergency medical ambulance system (call 108). But no one in the dargah was aware of it. If there was a proper procedure, my brother would be alive and playing with his daughter now. When I reached the hall where the fatal incident had taken place it smelled so badly, I could hardly stand there. It is worth noting that many of our dargahs are at isolated places: Burhanpur, Hasanpir, Galiakot etc. What I ask is that can such an incident take place with any of us mumeens.
Also, why only after Shz Huzaifa Bhaisaheb intervened did the dargah officials agree to bury my brother there. If we would not have been able to apply his ‘influence’, there might be more paragraphs of grief in this letter.
I would again like to strongly mention that my aim is not to create any controversy or bitterness, I only pray and request that the concerned authorities take note of everything and make improvisations in every such remote place. This email has been written with just one objective - ‘AWARENESS’
My aim is that what happened to my brother should not happen to any other mumeen in the future.
wassalam
Ahmed jariwala
My name is Ahmed Jariwala, and would like to bring to your attention the unjustified, undignified and painful death that my brother, Huzaifa (29 years) suffered at Hasanpir Dargah due to the lack of proper procedures in place. Below is a brief account of his last few hours.
On the night of 7th June, Huzaifa reached Hasanpir Dargah to spend the night and then was planning to leave the next day for Ahmedabad to attend the Urs majlis of Qutbuddin Shaheed. His reason for being there was that he became a father of a baby girl only 11 days ago, and wanted to go do shukar ziyarat at Galiakot, Hasanpir and Ahmedabad. He opted to stay in the hall which was next to the roza Mubarak.
· 1:30 am: He felt something slide past his body and saw a small snake just slide past him. He was not sure whether it had bit him but managed to throw it out with a broom. He immediately called us at home and told us what had happened.
· 2:30 am: He called us and said that he was feeling weak, we advised him to wake the people around him (2 people were sleeping in the room as well), but no one responded. He then went to the watchman who refused to ‘disturb’ the mulla sahib. After This, He decided to leave that hall and moved to the new one which is above the FAIZ. As we were in continuous conversation on phone, we knew on what he was going thru.
· With out knowing the fact, an antibiotic was provided with the hand of security guard and told “ Ane kehjo Aa lai lo thik thai jase (Eat this and you will be alright)” – Clear point of negligence.
· 3:30 am: He called us, and was hardly able to speak. I had left Pune wanting to reach Hasanpir ASAP. My mama had also left from Gondal which was several hours away. My mother advised him to drink some water, or taste khake-shifa. His reply was “Every body is sleeping there is no one who is awake.”
· 3:30 am to 4:30 am: We constantly called the Hasanpir dargah office, we called the mobile number of the mulla sahib, but no one picked up or responded.
· 4:30 am: He called my mama, his last phone call ever – “MAMA TAME KYA CHO TAME JALDI AVO MANE TAMAREE JAROORAT CHHE” (Mama, where are you, I desperately need you…).Meanwhile one mumena woke up on seeing Huzaifa she immediately went to her husband and told the situation.
· 5:00 am: I called Huzaifa and found that someone else picked the phone and were taking him to the nearby medical centers for help, in their own car. Over the next hour or so, they went to two places, which refused to admit him.
· 6:20 am: I got a call that my brother, had passed away.
The pathetic sequence of events had not stopped. After this, the aim was to give him a dignified burial, without hurting his body more. We were told by Hasanpir officials that Huzaifa cannot be buried there, and you have to take him ‘elsewhere.’ They said that the mulla sahib, who was there HAD to go to Ahmedabad in the afternoon for the Urs majlis and he CAN NOT wait to bury him. Apparently the majlis was more important. They suggested to take him some place few kms away. My father did not want to bury my brother anywhere, and we went to the Pune Amilsaheb Abdeali Bhai Saheb. He called Shz. Huzefabhai Saheb who then called Hasanpir. After they received this call, they arranged everything for us. They arranged to bury him at Hasanpir itself, they also did arz in hazrat of Maula Burhanuddin (TUS) for dua, and gave a galef of Hasanpir maula to cover his fresh kabr.
We were not able to reach Hasanpir before his burial. My mama from gondal reached there, and then my kaka from Junagadh reached there by evening. Looking at the body, which was green, and swelling in the kafan, they decided that huzaifa could not be kept anymore and had to be buried. I reached Hasanpir by 12pm in the night (as I had travelled till Mumbai when I got the news) and my parents and his wife, 11 day old daughter reached by 2:30 am the next morning. 25 hours after the snake had bit him.
My reason for writing this letter is not to complain. I have accepted that my brother is dead. I have accepted that his 11 month old marriage is over. I have accepted that his daughter of 11 days will never know her father. I have accepted that I have to struggle to provide the basic necessities to my family. I have accepted that I am the only person to support my parents, my bhabhi, my neice, my wife and my unborn child.
But, I cannot help in questioning the total lack of vigilance and activeness of people who run these dargahs? We are a community who boasts 100% literacy rates, and yet there were no emergency procedures at the dargah. Throughout the dargah, there was no emergency system, medical, fire or anything. Gujarat has an emergency medical ambulance system (call 108). But no one in the dargah was aware of it. If there was a proper procedure, my brother would be alive and playing with his daughter now. When I reached the hall where the fatal incident had taken place it smelled so badly, I could hardly stand there. It is worth noting that many of our dargahs are at isolated places: Burhanpur, Hasanpir, Galiakot etc. What I ask is that can such an incident take place with any of us mumeens.
Also, why only after Shz Huzaifa Bhaisaheb intervened did the dargah officials agree to bury my brother there. If we would not have been able to apply his ‘influence’, there might be more paragraphs of grief in this letter.
I would again like to strongly mention that my aim is not to create any controversy or bitterness, I only pray and request that the concerned authorities take note of everything and make improvisations in every such remote place. This email has been written with just one objective - ‘AWARENESS’
My aim is that what happened to my brother should not happen to any other mumeen in the future.
wassalam
Ahmed jariwala