Originally I had not thought of this subject but I decided to day to jot down about this man for the remarkable life he had
Syed Zulfiqar Haider , his full name but amongst friends he was known by this common abbreviation of "Zulfi" He was just a couple of years older than me (was oldest in our group and there is a story behind why he was late in his educational achievement) but among the "friends" who are also "partners" he was called affectionately as Daddy or Pitaji or just by "Buddha" depending on the situation or mood but we all loved him anyway.
In our Medical school many friendships start with "partnership" made according to Roll numbes and Partners for dissection (of human body) in practical anatomy class So we were , Wahaj + Zafar Bhutta and Zaheer + Zulfi on each Lower limb (alloted to us.). For some reason on the upperlimb of same body was Sarwar Frooki (there is a reason why we spell it as such and not Farooki) who became part of "partnership".
This was necessary to explain this special "friendship." We had made purposeful close friendship so all of us made bare all our "life secrets" to each other in our first year early. That is how I know about Zulfi and his wonderful life and he himself told us that he has always been lucky to get so much which he did not consider he was deserving of it all and he wondered ahow and why he got all that. Skipping the rest of his life's good and bad things, I will only mention about his death which occured in the beginning of this Islamic year. He belongs to Kattar Shia family and he had a stroke early in the year but he breahted his last on 10th day of Muharram and was burried on the 13th (See my previous blog on Muharram and Zulfi)
So amazing for me to learn as his death is so exhalted too (as if the malkulMaut knew his lickiness) He called himself Lucky and then to die on such important date and yes he was. Inna Lillahi wa. . . . . .
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Can we know more about him?
I had purposly not mentioned so many things but for your curiosity Mystic let me mention a couple of things. He was getting some scholarship I do not remember details because of being admitted in KE from some less worthy place and who cares where he got 75 rupees every month So he was daddy, Pitaji janab in the beginning of each month and we would be looking for tea and snacks and then by the end of the month he was oay Buhhay or just Buddha
He had plans made of everything when we were admitted in Medical college that he was in love with onee cousin who he would marry and will build a practice and a home in Gujrat etc. and that is exactly how it happened. he was instrumental in stopping production of "shah dawla k choohay", Microcephalic children. There is a whole story of that and Punjab people are aware of it and even Saadat Hasan minto had a story about one such female "chooha"
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