He wore a brown worn-out tee and a torn black-leathered jeans. His shirt had its sleeves torn up at the end of it while having a dark blue worn-out sidebag on his side. He came up to me as if he wanted something at the time but all he wanted is just a handshake. I shook his hand treating as if he's a normal person. Suprisingly, he said " Alhamdulillah " and went forward to seemingly offers a handshake to the other person in front of me.
The people of the mosque was fine by his presence as he didn't not throw out any fit nor cause any harm to them. I'm pretty much sure they all know who he is since he wonders around practically everywhere. Anyway, as he was advancing towards the front row of the prayers while offering handshakes to the people around him. He went straight to the Imam of the masjid to offer his handshake.
To my surprise, the Imam eventually standup offers him handshake and made him sit behind him for the after prayer. Everybody seems to be pleased of that situation and continue to berdoa as usual. When the after prayer was done, he standup and make his way out of the mosque. I'll be honest here, I'm kinda expecting him to cause a ruckus around, cuz duh! He's crazy and I don't really expect much from someone like him but this situation totally changed how I looked at things.
After that whole situation, I kinda became fascinated to the guy cuz truthfully speaking, he has been around this area for more than a 4 years and of all this time, this is the only time that I saw this. When I think hard back about this, 4 years! That's a long time. I mean to survive in this world with just the generosity and kindness of the nearby people, that's really something when you think about it.
Fascinating huh?
Anyhow as crazy as he is, he didn't seem to pose a threat to the society around him but instead he has been in this area for so long that nearby people would recognize him and offers him food despite knowing that he's crazy. I never truly knew the person but I heard before he went crazy, he was a good person. A person good enough that made the people of Paka nearby knew him.
It is all about perception I guess. What makes me think of these is that, if he is as dangerous as I thought, people would have escort him outside of the mosque the moment he sets his foot inside. I'm expecting he had some good background history. I guess lets just leave a benefit of a doubt in this scenario.
Oh well, despite that, I felt bad for thinking bad of him. After all our perception is actually a reflection of ourselves. Maybe I should be more optimistic or maybe just paranoid. Who knows kan.
Whats more surprising is that, that crazy person, lets just call him, Pok We, had a case before that what made people deemed him as crazy. There was a point where some of the residents here actually saw him sleeping outside a house butt naked. One of the residents who is a young girl saw him, and called the police because his actions or his sleeping position looks like as if he's dead.
He was caught as I heard and again was somehow release to the public soon after. Not sure how or when. I guess Allah had a good plan for him. I often heard people saying " Orang gila aka Crazy people like him, if he were a muslim before, He had his place in Jannah.". Like gila naturally lah, kalau gila yang dicari tu, menempah neraka ler jawapnyaa. I hope he will be well, wherever or whenever he is. I wonder how old is he tho. Hmmmm...
He was caught as I heard and again was somehow release to the public soon after. Not sure how or when. I guess Allah had a good plan for him. I often heard people saying " Orang gila aka Crazy people like him, if he were a muslim before, He had his place in Jannah.". Like gila naturally lah, kalau gila yang dicari tu, menempah neraka ler jawapnyaa. I hope he will be well, wherever or whenever he is. I wonder how old is he tho. Hmmmm...












