Thursday, June 16, 2022

Nasir Uddin Learned How To Swim

 While he was staying at his maternal uncle's house. One day, after lunch, when everyone was asleep during the day. Just then, realizing the time, Nasir Uddin went for a walk towards the cut canal of the river Jamuna. There is now a bridge over the cut canal which people can recognize as a wooden pool (কাঠের পুল). Coincidentally, the floodwaters began to rise in the river that day. He went to the dock and saw a small dinghy boat floating in the water. And he looked around and saw that there was nobody near or far.

At this point he got into the dinghy boat and slowly pushed the boat to the end with a long bamboo stick tied to the shore. And the boat started to go deeper into the river. When Nasir Uddin grabbed the end of the bamboo pole and that is what happened. His boat sank on one side and a bamboo pole on the other, and he sank in the middle of the river. Gradually he began to sink deeper into the water. Because he did not know how to swim. As long as he was going to deep and he saw darkness around him.

Going deep into the water, he realized that now was his last time. Because, he doesn't know how to swim he will die soon. Then he kept his head down and thought that he would have to make a last effort to survive. He was still holding his breath and his four limbs began to jump violently. It seems that within half a minute, he floated on the water, constantly clapping his hands and feet. And he began to say in my mind that I have learned to swim. Within a minute swam as he reached the shore and dragged his own body to the shore somehow and began to speak louder. Oh! God, today you saved me from drowning in this deep water with your own hands. No one can comprehend your infinite majesty.

Nasir Uddin got up from his bed and sat up. This time he looked around the Ganges and saw that the little dinghy boat was nowhere to be seen. He knew that the owner of the dinghy was Moni Mama of Rahmatganj in Sirajganj. If Moni Mama (owner of rice mill) finds out that Nasir Uddin has left the boat, he will immediately lodge a complaint with Nasir Uddin's Uncle. So he went straight to his grandmother's house without delay.

Nasir Uddin's whole body was wet with river water. As soon as he reached home, his grandmother asked; What's the matter with your whole body wet any cause? Nasir Uddin replied immediately. The boys were bathing in the river and I was standing there. A boy pushed me into the water so my clothes got wet. Granny immediately believed him and said, "Oh God, if something happened to you, what would I say to your parents? Go and change your clothes."

By the grace of Almighty Allah, Nasir Uddin survived this journey. But one thing became he learned and that was how to swim in the water. 

Nasir Uddin could have died that day but the coolness of his brain was intriguing. Because in most cases people fall into the river water and lose consciousness due to fear and water enters their stomach and stays submerged in water till death. After death, the body becomes swollen and swollen, then the body of the deceased floats on the water. One lesson we can learn from this is that there is no need to lose patience in any danger. We can save ourselves from many great dangers if we think slowly and steadily.

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