regret. Abdul Kadir was getting ready to graduate from an Islamic Institute. For many years he had his eyes on this beautiful girl and knowing his father was very close to the girls father, he told his father that was all he wanted.

The night before the graduation ceremony, Abdul Kadir returned home to collect his best outfit and shoe, his family were very excited to see him. On the morning of his graduation, his father called him into his private study, in the room stood a towering figure, it was the girl's father, Abdul Kadirs heart started racing and felt a sudden blood rush in his body. He thought this was it, and he would finally meet the girl with her father's approval. His father told him how proud he was to have such a fine son, and told him how much he loved him; the girls father Zakir also congratulated him. Kadir's father handed him a beautifully wrapped gift box. Curious, but somewhat disappointed, Kadir opened the box and found a lovely, gold pen it had his name embossed in gold. Angry, Kadir raised his voice to his father and said "the one thing I wanted the most, and you give me a pen?" and stormed out of the house, leaving the gift box and the gold pen.

Many years passed and Kadir was very successful in business. He was living in Mauritius it was the most wonderful place and thought to himself what he had missed all these years. He had a beautiful home and wonderful family, but realized his father was very old, and thought perhaps he should go to see him. He had not seen him since that graduation day. Before he could make arrangements, he received a telegram telling him his father had passed away, and willed all of his possessions to his son. He needed to come home immediately and take care of things.

When he arrived at his father's house, sudden sadness and regret filled his heart. He began to search through his father's important papers and saw the still new gold pen in the gift box, just as he had left it years ago. With tears, he opened the gift box, inside the box was a short message saying, Congratulation son, your hard work has paid off to the highest degree and I hope the future brings only good and happiness for you. Inside this box was a small book his dad compiled of his sons early school day achievements and certificates, he began to turn the pages. And as he did, a note fell from the back of the book, it read, As Abdul Kadir's father I give my full blessing to my son to marry Zakir's daughter with Zakir's daughter's approval??tears started to roll down his cheek. It also had a letter from that very girl he watched for many years; she wanted to meet him after his graduation ceremony. On the letter was the date of his graduation, and the girl's photo and detail.

Months went by and due to stress Kadir shrivelled up, he was so thin he could barely hold himself up. One night he went to bed early, in his dream he saw his father in a crowd of miserable people, his father looked distressed and very weakly. He went to his father to embrace him; his father turned his head around the opposite direction. He looked at the crowd his father was with and asked them why they all looked so miserable, they replied, "Our children's have mistreated us, due to this we will always be miserable and unhappy with them".