The parents has transferred the ownership of their land to their daughter and her husband after they promised to bear their parents nafkah for as long as they lived and also allowing them to stay in the said house.
The parents claimed that their daughter and her husband has gone back on their promise , neglected their welfare and the daughter had been rough with her mother. They further claimed that their daughter had failed, neglected or had been careless in fulfilling her promise after the land was transferred.
With this tear jerking episode, it brought my memory back to identical similar incidence when I was posted the Assistant Land Officer of Kota Setar in the early 1969. During the Hajj seasons, a lot of parents came to me for assistance in legalizing the transfer of ownership of their landed properties. As in those days, performance of the Hajj would take about more than three months, naturally the potential Haji or Hajjah who wanted to achieve Haji Mabrur would like to forget about worldly assets and leaving them with their children.
Usually I would advise the parents about the negative consequence if ever they would change their mind when they did come back after performing the hajj. Sure enough, there were instances when the parents came back to me for assistance in getting back their former land when the children themselves ill treated them.
So in the matter of adverse relationship between the parents and their children would still occur in this modern day if ever there was an absence of loving and caring attitude of the children. It is an holistic responsibility of the children to care for their elderly parents who has whole heartedly brought you up. From the episode in Seremban, the level of education of a person does not guarantee that she or he would fulfill their holistic responsibility to their parents. Nor does the number of children you have would guarantee that they would care for your aging parents.
Pak Chik Mat and Mak Chik Sayang who has only two children yet they are enjoying the fruits of their labour from their two adourable children. Mak Chik and Pak Chik still look after Nayah when Bakar is away on official or green duties. Nami and Mat are also enjoying the fruits of their labour with their three children. During Yani's post car accident recovery period, Nami is also enjoying extra fruits of her labour with her four grand children during the day. Alun and Azira are also very considerate with Nami for they are letting Nami off during the night to rest and gather more strength for the next day. So the moral of the story is that if you sow quality seeds you would also harvest quality grains in return.
I am grateful to Allah for blessing me with three wonderful children and their spouses who has looked after Zam and me so well and we do not have any misgiving about them. Zam and I has enjoyed tremendously our leisure stay at Langkawi on 27 to 29 October 2009. Both of us has tasted the fruits of our labour when Shiwar and Marini showered us with care ness when we were in Langkawi. We would also be enjoying the fruits of our labour when the whole family would again be feasted by Nana and her family in Penang on the coming December 2009. Insya Allah.
Without a family, you would be lonely and without soul as depicted by the sole coconut tree in front of the Grand Continental Hotel in Langkawi
Or the forlorn island surrounded by water which is not drinkable
Although the beach is lonely and isolated, yet it would be lively and enjoyable if you have your whole family members picnicking on the white beach. My parents used to bring the whole family members in the early sixties to that isolated beach and we really enjoyed our outings to that isolated beach. Zam still remembers vividly the enjoyable momemts at the beach during our honeymooning days.
The beach which was very lively with marine lovers from all over the world in the sixties was not as lively as before because of family feud which hit the nail on the coffin
Enjoying the company of four very contented friends (2 Chinese and 2 Indians) from Kuala Lumpur who were given incentive by their Malay boss to spend their weekend at Langkawi. It seems One Malaysian concept is working very fine. Our seventy year old Chinese friend at the far right is also enjoying the fruits of his labour with his eight children. To meet the requirements of raising eight children, he has got to tighten his belt during their growing up period. However today, he is enjoying the fruits of his labour because all his children are successful if their lives.
One of his sons has married a Muslim Kelantanese and as such he has changed his cooking utensils and their family diet altogether. He is very happy about it because his Muslim grand children would always spend their weekend at his house. He was happy in telling me that he has 2 1/2 Muslim grand children.
p langkawi x tangkap gambar kat helang x sah la.
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