I heard that people were mourning and it woke me up. I found all my family members were crying and I was wondering what had happened at a sudden. To know, I left the bed and rushed towards the drawing room. There were lots of people in the room and were crying. My mouth got opened to see that I was lying in the center of these people. My body was lying straight on the floor, wrapped with white bed-sheet with opened face, and my eyes were closed. My face was expressionless and my lips were glued together. Ahh… Am I Dead? Is this my (dead) body lying at the center? I started yelling, “ Hello, I am alive. Look behind, I am alive and talking to you.” But, nobody is looking at me nor listening to me.
I saw an old man in white beard came to me. His forehead was broad and full of wrinkles. There was a glow on his face, and he was wearing a pristine white gown. I asked, “ Who are you, Sir?” He said very calmly, “I am the messenger of death, please come along with me.” I couldn’t protest, and started along. I came outside of my house, and there was a grand all white spotless wagon with white and tall horses. The old man asked me to step in the wagon, and with a jolt wagon started. After few minutes journey, a huge gate appeared covered with white clouds. The ole man opened the gate and took me to a man with long beard.
The long beard man touched his beard twice and said, “Mr Shah Rizwan, there is a question to you and the decision will be based on the answer of this question.” I asked, “What decision, Sir?” He said, “Sending you Hell or heaven. If you are the most accurate, you will go to Heaven else be ready for the Hell.”
He asked, “ How many time have you wasted the things? You can take 1 logical unit for each item, as measuring units for different items are different.”
I did want to accurate at the level maximum as any slippage could lead to hell. I started recalling events when I had wasted any resource but I was finding me numb. Was I nervous or it was really difficult to calculate the items that I had wasted? An idea lightened in my mind, “ Give a utmost higher value. It is better if actual value is lesser than the quoted value. I said strategically, “Sir, I think I have wasted at least 300,000 units of all the items.” The long beard man instructed another man standing there with a list to get the answer validated. The man said, “Sir, the quoted value entirely different from the actual value. Actual value is 445,749,463,915,732,679 units.” I started crying, Sir please check, this cannot be happened. This difference is very huge. I just want to know the parameters. Please tell me Sire, please.
The long beard man took the list in his hand and said, “let’s start with natural resources. You have wasted at least 4 liters of water everyday apart from your need. So, you wasted 4 units everyday, 120 units every month, and 1440 units every year. This further adds that you forced a person to live without water for 36 days every year. These 36 days will also be added in the form of seconds in your wastage list. You never switched off your vehicle while standing at red lights and wasted around 2 liters petrol every month. So, you wasted around 24 units of petrol every year. This further adds the effort for digging it out, refining, transportation. You never switched off your TV, fan, AC, and bulbs when you were not in your room. This each unit has been added as well as the tasks that could be done with the wasted power also be added. You wasted food many of the times that forced many of the people to sleep without food. Their foodless times have been added. Also, you wasted efforts for cropping and cultivating of cereals that also have been added. You wasted paper a lot with out any reason. Due to which many of the trees have been cut down that further led to less rain and deterioration of earth, and imbalance in nature. My dear son list is end less, so whatever our list says that’s correct. And I have no doubt saying that you must go in Hell as you have never cared the things and wasted them without any reason. He instructed two of his bodyguards to take me to the hell. I started crying but the bodyguards were not listening to me. I said, “Sir, please give me a chance, only one chance….”
There was dark all around, and my wife switched the light on. I was sweating. She asked me, “Was I dreaming bad?” I said, “Yes.” I saw, bulb in balcony was On, I asked my wife to switch this off. This was just wastage of electricity. I lay down again and was thinking about the dream, and decided No More wastage of resources if I want to enjoy heaven.
