Little Omar was sitting in front of the TV next to his father, watching a football match together and listening to the commentator’s comments. Here he heard him shouting at the player, “Come on, Majid, quickly! You must be quick for such kicks.” Omar paid attention to this conversation and turned to ask his father.
He asked him how he could always tell him that “in deliberation, safety,” while this commentator was shouting that speed and haste were required. How was this, and was it reasonable to be hasty in any matter? His father answered him, patting him on the shoulders, “The player will not hear this commentator’s shout, and the whole matter is nothing more than stirring up excitement and nothing more. Rather, the correctness lies in not being hasty and in deliberation that achieves great victory.” Omar, who was always hasty by nature and did not like deliberation, was not convinced and waited for an answer that would suit his haste.
After a few hours, Omar’s mother asked for some things from the commercial store of a relative. Omar agreed immediately, and his face brightened with joy, for he would go out on his bicycle, which he was accustomed to rushing with to fulfill any request for the house. But his father noticed his haste and asked him to walk with deliberation, for “in deliberation, safety.” Omar nodded his head but unfortunately did not carry out his father’s request.
Omar rushed on his bicycle and did not notice that the back tire had a problem, and the air had gone out of the tire. He set off roaming the streets, rushing strongly, and did not pay attention to it until the tire tore completely due to his speed, and the bicycle began moving on the inner iron. Omar stopped thinking about what he would do in this predicament and found no choice but to carry his bicycle and return with it to the house.
He began to sweat heavily due to this exhausting effort. When his father saw him, he said to him, “My son, in deliberation, safety, and you do not listen to advice.” He began fixing the bicycle with Omar, who as soon as he found his bicycle had returned to him again, insisted on going to the market and buying what his mother wanted from him. His father agreed reluctantly, telling him not to rush.
Omar did not care about what had happened before, took his bicycle, and set off with it at a mad speed among the cars. He almost collided with one of the women had she not climbed onto the sidewalk. Omar collided with her and fell. The woman helped him get up and tried to bandage his wounds, but he thanked her and set off quickly again!
Only a few moments passed before everyone on the road heard the sound of a car’s brakes, as if it were trying to avoid an inevitable traffic accident. Indeed, one person was standing with his car in the middle of the road after managing not to collide with Omar, whose bicycle had overturned on the opposite side of the sidewalk. The man rebuked him for his mad speed and thanked God that no harm had befallen him. If only Omar had learned from his experience. But he did not wait for the traffic light to allow him to cross and passed through the cars, so one of the cars that came rushing at its speed hit him. Had the driver not been able to swerve a little, Omar would have been hit hard.
The reckless boy continued at his speed and entered the market to buy what was asked of him, but he was surprised by the absence of his money. He shouted that his money had been stolen and went out looking for his bicycle but did not find it. The traffic policeman told him that he had not put his bicycle in the place designated for bicycles, so the policeman was forced to pull it from the main street.
Omar began to curse his haste and realized that “in deliberation, safety.” Here someone helped him transport him to the house. When he returned and told his father what had happened, he said to him, “Omar, in deliberation, safety. You were hasty and did not get the money in the first place, and now you lost your bicycle because of your recklessness. Do not be hasty in anything, my son.” Omar apologized to him and told him that he would not be hasty ever again.