Cerita ni aku dapat dari email. Malas nak translate, korang baca la in English ye.
A woman always made chapatti daily for her family to eat and kept an extra one for a hungry passerby. She kept the extra chapatti on the window-sill, for whosoever would take it away. Every day, a hunchback came and took away the chapatti. Instead of expressing gratitude, he muttered the following words as he went his way: "The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!"
This went on, day after day. Every day, the hunch-back came, picked up the chapatti and uttered the words: "The evil you do, remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!" The woman felt irritated. "Not a word of gratitude," she said to herself....
"Everyday this hunchback utters this jingle! What does he mean? "One day, exasperated, she decided to do away with him. "I shall get rid of this hunchback," she said. And what did she do? She added poison to the chapatti she prepared for him! As she was about to keep it on the window sill, her hands trembled. "What is this I am doing?" she said . Immediately, she threw the chapatti into the fire, prepared another one and kept it on the window - sill.
As usual, the hunchback came, picked up the chapatti and muttered the words: "The evil you do, remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!" The hunchback proceeded on his way, blissfully unaware of the war raging in the mind of the woman.
Everyday, as the woman placed the chapatti on the window-sill, she offered a prayer for her son who had gone to a distant place to seek his fortune. For many months, she had no news of him.... She prayed for his safe return. That evening, there was a knock on the door. As she opened it, she was surprised to find her son standing in the doorway.... He had grown thin and lean. His garments were tattered and torn. He was hungry, starved and weak. As he saw his mother, he said, "Mom, it's a miracle I'm here. While I was but a mile away, I was so famished that I collapsed. I would have died, but just then an old hunchback passed by. I begged of him for a morsel of food, and he was kind enough to give me a whole chapatti."As he gave it to me, he said, "This is what I eat everyday: today, I shall give it to you, for your need is greater than mine!" As the mother heard those words, her face turned pale.
She leaned against the door for support. She remembered the poisoned chapatti that she had made that morning. Had she not burnt it in the fire, it would have been eaten by her own son, and he would have lost his life! It was then that she realized the significance of the words: "The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you! "Do good and; don't ever stop doing good, even if it’s not appreciated at that time.
Pengajaran yang maha hebat kan. Bayangkan kalau si ibu tadi bagi capati yang beracun. Lepas tu anak dia makan. Nasib baik dia tersedar.
Dalam hidup ni, kena selalu berbuat baik dengan orang walau pun orang layan kita macam hampeh. Serius, memang tak dapat nak tipu diri sendiri bila mana kau cuba menolong dan hulur bantuan tanpa mengira tapi tak dapat balasan yang setimpal. Rasa seolah-olah di pergunakan atau dengan bahasa mudah ‘Bagai melepaskan anjing tersepit’. Naik fed up pun ada. Kita sikit punya tak kisah nak menolong bagai tapi bila kita pula yang memerlukan, takda yang nak bagi.
Bukan isu mengungkit, tapi peringatan. Sedih? Tak di nafikan. Tapi lama-kelamaan, kita fikir satu benda je ni. Kita tolong apa yang terdaya dan sepatutnya. Allah tu Maha Adil. Mungkin bukan pihak tu yang hulurkan bantuan tapi Dia hantar orang lain untuk menolong kita.
Peringatan juga untuk diri sendiri. Sebagai manusia biasa, tak mampu yo den nak bermuka manis dengan mereka yang mengadu domba ni. Abis-abis buat donno je. Aku percaya satu, buat baik di balas baik, buat jahat faham-faham la sendiri.