Nowadays, there is a lot of talk
about a movie all over the world and especially in the Arab world. The name of
this movie is Goat Life which in Arabic
It is called "Hayyah
al-Maaz". Although this film is available on Netflix, but it is not being
watched in Saudi Arabia, it is probably because the true story on which India
made this film had another positive aspect of the story which was not filmed. .
This incident was narrated by a
Saudi man sitting on a channel three years ago. The film is now made on it. It
happened that in 1991, this incident happened in the city of Khafr Al Batin in
Saudi Arabia. Khafr al-Batan is a city in the eastern province of Saudi Arabia,
whose nearest international airport is Dammam.
It so happened that an Indian man named Najeeb came on a company visa. At that time this person was later known as Hindutha Najeeb. He had not become a Muslim during this era. In those days, there were no mobile phones, the language was not understood by the first time visitors. Sometimes a friend, sponsor or company could not reach the airport, or forgot, etc.
Najib's company did not come to the
airport to pick up Najib. He did not know which city the company was in.
Meanwhile, a Saudi citizen tried to talk to him. Apparently, no one understood
what each other was saying.
The Saudi national may have mistaken him for his worker and signaled him to go with him or deliberately tried to take him along, God knows, Najib went with him.
The man took Najib to his vet. Generally, in Saudi Arabia, people who keep sheep, goats and camels make tents far away from the population in the desert and make long wooden poles for the animals. From there the road or population is far away. Najib was taken there and made to graze the animals. Nothing was happening because of the language barrier.
In short, Najib spent five years
grazing animals in the desert away from his home without pay. There was little
food and that was all to him.
Five years later, Najib took the opportunity to hit his sponsor on the head with an iron rod and somehow managed to escape.
It was later learned that his
sponsor had died from the stabbing of the rod.
Meanwhile, Najib reached the road,
where a good man picked him up and took him to the city or a town. Someone
informed the police there and they arrested him and took him away. The case
went to court. Najib was ordered to give 170,000 Rahal to the deceased's son as
dowry. In default of payment of the fine, he was to serve five years in prison
and face the death penalty.
However, Najib went to jail for five years because of where he would get the money. This case and Najib's incident gradually spread among the local people. It took a lot of time in the collective effort to release Najib. When the local Saudis first heard this whole incident and read the court's decision, they became active for Najib's release from prison. Collected. There was no social media at that time. People had to go and ask. It was a big amount which was difficult to complete with ten twenty, hundred riyals. Finally, after a few years of effort, the money was finally paid.
People went to the son of Najib's
sponsor and took him to jail and started the process of presenting the dowry
money to the criminal. Najib's sponsor's son had also softened after such a
long time and realized his father's abuse of Najib.
He said though you have killed my father but you have also been raped so I am returning this money as a penalty for the rape done to you by father and hope you forgive my father. will take
When Najib came out of jail, he was
given some more money by the Saudi people who tried to release him, on which
Najib asked, Are you Muslims?
He said Alhamdulillah! Why are you
asking like this?
Najib asked, "Was my sponsor
also a Muslim?"
They understood why he was asking
this.
He said that we Muslims also have
bad and good people. It is said that Najib converted to Islam and returned to
India after being inspired by the behavior of the sponsor's son to help these
people.
So this was the full story told by a Saudi three years ago. It will be found on YouTube in Arabic language. India has filmed a half-finished story.
The point is that many such
incidents have happened and may be happening, but it would be very wrong to
consider the entire Saudi society as such.
A few years ago, you may have seen a video that a Saudi citizen was freeing a Pakistani driver who was in jail by paying a ransom of three lakhs. This driver killed 3 people in the accident.
The acting, music and cinematography of the film is very good
