Today my article My maid Mary Sukin

Both mother and daughter had come to Karachi from a suburban area near Rahim Yar Khan in search of employment. Mother's name was Jannat Khatun and daughter's name was Safia. The impressions of paradise were sharp, but poverty had swallowed its beauty. Her husband was disabled by paralysis. She had left him in her village with a relative. Jannat did not find any work in the beginning. She was staying with a distant relative in a slum. Soon he found work washing dishes and sweeping brooms in the nearby Chand Thio. These two mother and daughters leave home early in the morning and return home at seven in the evening after working in five houses. She used to earn 12,000 per bungalow.

After paying Rs 2,000 for the room rent and Rs 500 in the electricity bill, eight thousand rupees were left a month. Jannat regularly sent four thousand cows to her husband. The rest of the money would be sufficient for living. After six months of working like this, Jannat slowed down. It was the month of December. One day he knocked on our door. I was basking in the sun with a chair on the lawn. Those days the maid had left work and I was in dire need of a working aunt. When I opened the gate, I felt that Allah Ta'ala had accepted the prayer from my heart, because the house had not been cleaned for the last fifteen days. Cooking and washing dishes would be so exhausting that one would pass out. The rest of the work remained. Paradise entered.

She herself was very pale, but her 14-year-old daughter was stout and beautiful. I understood that they needed work, yet I discovered the purpose of coming. Begum Sahib we need work, said Jannat. What will you do? They will sweep the broom, do the dishes, wash the clothes, cook the food, whatever you tell them to do. You look so lazy, how will you work? are you sick No, Begum Sahib, I am not sick, overwork has made this situation. She was tall and healthy when she came from the village. How many houses have you taken over? Of five houses... will you do the sixth house now? I said in disbelief and that too in this state. I will leave the rest of the houses if you pay a good salary. We also get tired of working from home