A pan shop at NTR Nagar in outskirts of Hyderabad city in Andhra Pradesh, is attracting a large number of customers because a Muslim girl clad in Hijab prepares pans for the customers. Shaheen also sells other articles also in the pan shop. She is a 15 year old girl who was selling cigarettes and other articles. On contacting her she told that this pan shop belongs to his brother Mr. Jan Mohammed Jaffer.
He is from Jharkhand, he came to Hyderabad 4 years back and started pan shop business. He opens the shop immediately after Fajr prayer and goes for taking meals at home. She sells pan in this shop from 1 pm to 4 pm during lunch hour. She knows the names of all brands of cigarettes. She told that her brother Jaffer cannot effort to employee a person and more over he can’t trust others in cash dealings.
This girl is not seen after 4 pm which is rush hour and more over during evening hours, all sorts of people come to pan shop. She told that her father is a small farmer whose financial condition is not sound. She has 7 sisters and she is the 4th one. Three sister got married. One of his brothers resides with her father and helps him to his agricultural activities. Shaheen told that she knows reading and writing Urdu.
She also recites Quran at home. She told that she does not talk to the customers coming to pan shop. Whatever they demand, she quietly give them and takes money. She informed that her neighbors have encouraged her. They are good people. They extend every possible help. The hotel owner is also a nice man.
She is an example of hard work and working honestly. Lethargic Muslim youths should learn a lesson from her hard work and honesty.
