Orphaned Child Who Begged At Shrine To Make Ends Meet Returns Home A Crorepati
Life can seem incredibly unfair at times. Some incidents make people ponder the unjust circumstances that are meted out to the helpless. But it is also believed that the universe works in mysterious ways to change the fate of those in most testing situations.?
One such story of upliftment has emerged from Haridwar, where a 10-year-old orphan boy who was surviving on alms to make ends meet became a crorepati in a flash.
Back-to-back death of father and mother
The boy, Shahjeb Alam, had to take shelter in the Piran Kaliyar shrine near Roorkee after both his parent met an untimely demise.Shahjeb, the only child of his parents, is a native of Pandauli village in UP's Saharanpur district.?
After suffering a prolonged illness, his father died in 2019. A few months before his death, Shahjeb's mother, Imrana Begum, left her husband and moved in with her parents in Yamunanagar along with her son.?She later shifted to Piran Kaliyar with her son, doing jobs to make a living.?
But Shahjeb's misery run did not stop there. His life went into a downward spiral when his mother succumbed to Covid-19 in 2021.?
Shahjeb took refuge in Sufi shrine
As no one was present to provide for the child, his neighbours advised him to seek refuge in Piran Kaliyar, one of the most revered shrines of the Sufi sect. Shahjeb, suddenly an orphan, had been living there, begging and depending on alms to survive.?
Life took a pleasant turn?
Little did the boy know that a pleasant twist in his life would turn things around for him. He didn't have any clue that his grandfather Mohammad Yaqub had provisioned a share of his immovable properties, worth close to Rs 2 crore, in his will for Shahjeb, the child of his dead son Naved.?After his grandfather passed away in 2021, the property - a double-storeyed house and 5-bigha land - was officially passed on to Shahjeb.?
Relatives find the boy at last
Upon this, Shahjeb's relatives circulated social media posts to find his whereabouts but to no avail. Eventually, their efforts paid off on Wednesday when they learned that the kid was living as a beggar in Piran Kaliyar. They immediately came from Saharanpur and took the boy back.?
"It is more than a festival for our family as Shahjeb is with us. We had lost all hope to find him," Shah Alam, a relative of Shahjeb, told TOI over the phone from Saharanpur."He is slowly getting used to us," said Nawaz Alam, Shahjeb's uncle.?
"It will take some time. He's been through so much at a young age," the uncle added.? ?
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