[Great men #1] One of them was a peddler, a model for leading figures in humanitarian work

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Human empathy connects us not with pity or tolerance, but as human beings have learned how to transform common suffering into hope for the future.

The animals are born animals, but man does not give birth to a human being, but to educate him to become a human, and the way is to wipe on the fore of the slap of life, the following are models of those who influenced life around them with all the love of others, and then received only a few, The page of fate, a blemish in the depths of life and its sharks, illuminated the paths of poverty, and painted the smile on the lips.

Salah Attieh .. From Egypt

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In the small village of Tafnah al-Ashraf, in the governorate of Dakahlia in Egypt, Salah Attieh came to life. He was far from rich, close to extreme poverty, never inclined to sect or sect, and did not run behind fame or lights. His simplicity and inspired words To do good, move in self-kindness and rejuvenate the work diligently.

As for his choice of the Faculty of Agriculture, it may have been a projection of his own love of the land in which he grew up.

The story began when Salah, together with nine young people brought together by the common circumstances, decided to set up a 2,000-pound poultry farm, and to need a tenth partner during the writing of the company's contract, Salah announced that the tenth partner would be God!

They started the project and made profits that were not taken into consideration. They decided to increase the share of the loan with God to 20%. The increase continued year after year, reaching 100%.

Charity projects were the proceeds of this profit. In his village, a nursery was established for the children to memorize the Holy Quran free of charge, with their transfer from the neighboring villages, and the care of the children in the nursery uniform. The girls and women who helped them in sewing training and giving them the necessary equipment, To raise a means of earning for each of them, by donating to each of them a sheep and a quantity of feed.

He founded six religious seminaries for different stages and built a railway station. This was followed by the establishment of a university college for Sharia and law, followed by the Faculty of Commerce for Girls, then the College of the fundamentals of religion, then a college of education and finally several factories.

Abdul Rahman Al Sumait from Kuwait

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Abdul Rahman al-Sumait was a religious child, eager to read, filled with good love, studied in Kuwait schools, and then went to Iraq to study medicine and surgery.

After graduating, he worked as a physician at the Montreal General Hospital in Canada. He then worked as a gastroenterologist at Al-Sabah Hospital in Kuwait.

At the age of 35, he paid a visit to Africa. His soul touched suffering and the scenes of hunger and disease instilled in him a profound pain that he once decided to sacrifice his profession and entrust himself to help millions of children get their rights to life, education and shelter.

He spent twenty-nine years of his life doing charity work in Africa, advocating Islam, with more than 11 million people in Africa alone.

He was the founding member of several charity committees, most notably the Muslim Medical Association.

In his life, he supported more than 10,000 orphan children, funded students, built more than 6,000 mosques, established schools and universities, in addition to Islamic centers and wells, and finally printed and distributed 51 million copies of the Koran.

His life was not a paradise in Africa. He was subjected to numerous attempts by armed militias because of his overwhelming presence among the poor and the needy. He was surrounded by the Cobra Snake, and perhaps the most difficult of all the hardships he faced in prison.

One of his friends said: "His series of trips in the jungles of Africa, and the horrors of traveling in its forests, were dangerous; he risked himself to bring peace and relief to Africa, but with a loaf of bread and a lamp of light and a book; his physical weapon was his thickened body, sugar and clots."

Abdul Salam Idhi from Pakistan

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Kidney failure was also fatal to Abdulrahman al-Sumait, who was also the cause of Abdel Salam Idahi's death last year. His last exhausting words to AFP were: "I have worked a lot, I am satisfied with my life."

In a small area in the village of «Pantva» Hindi in 1928 was born Abdul Salam Idahi, at the age of eleven his mother was paralyzed, and later suffered a mental illness, so Abdul Salam - who is still a child - ensured the full care of his mother in all aspects, Her total dependence on him in all her private affairs forced him to give up studying and devote all his time to his mother, until she received her father at the age of 19 years.

This experience left an impression in the same indescribable indie, a question that knocked the door in his mind: What about the thousands of cases similar to the case of his mother, especially those who do not find someone to take care of them?

Believes that his first step towards the road is to alleviate the suffering of patients and their families and to put an end to the dry and bad treatment received by people suffering from mental illnesses, specifically within the centers supposed to be dedicated to such cases, to establish a series of hospitals and health centers in the future.

In his book Mirror of the Blind, Edhi recounts his detailed life story. He talks about his dream, which began as a very small one. After India's separation from Pakistan, Idahi moved with his family to Pakistan and started working as a peddler in Karachi.
He sought to buy an ambulance, and continued to stand in the popular areas of Karachi and raise funds, he was still sincerely seeking to buy a fully equipped volunteer fleet, which entered the Guinness Book of Records in 2000.

Founded a charity which is one of the largest medical institutions in the world, hospitals for obstetrics and gynecology, and has built dozens of maternity care centers, orphanages and the elderly.

"You have changed our lives, and I thank you for that, sir, I will be in peace." One of the children commented on Idahi's sudden death in 2016.