No warning, no hint, no insinuation, and you are gone – within 45 minutes – Azam. The doctors were helpless; the angel of mortality was quicker. The call was final; it defied all efforts to stop you from flying to the unknown world. The will of the Supreme, the pull of the celestial living, the mortality of this world, or the combination of the three was the force pushing you for this abrupt and hasty goodbye to us.

Muhammad Azam Brohi, my nephew, went to the USA after graduation in 1992-93. He graduated and joined the education department. Later, by sheer dint of good luck, his parents and four younger siblings won the Green Card Lottery in the late 1990s and migrated to the USA. He had a promising career as an educator and academician. We lost him in a fatal heart attack he had at a function organised by his academic organisation two weeks ago. He was only 49 and full of life.

Azam’s passing has brought us face to face with the mortality of this life. We feel the significance of the Quran’s way of explaining it (We belong to you, and shall we return to you) when we experience a sudden and painful farewell by a dear soul. The will of the Almighty is supreme. We have to reckon our insignificance, being the smallest cog in the spinning wheel of His universe.

The will of the Almighty is supreme. We have to reckon our insignificance, being the smallest cog in the spinning wheel of His universe.

The living in this world is underscored by the inevitable dissolving into physical disappearance. The human ego, vanity, pride, malice, hatred, greed are an........

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