A lesson learnt..
This Saturday an incident happened to us. And I would like to share here for others..
I am living in Sharjah with my family and I have a 2 year old kid.
When we shifted to our flat, I removed keys from all doors thinking that my boy may play with the keys and he or someone may get locked.
Yesterday, like usual, my wife was making breakfast in kitchen and I was there having a glass of water. My son came in a normal way jumping, moving and playing? when me and my wife were talking. My son closed the kitchen door. We though he is just playing.
After few moments he started calling us.. and when I turned to open the door, I realised that he has locked the door from outside and we are trapped in kitchen. First we were shocked to know that how come I missed kitchen door key.. why didn?t I remove that?(the mistake was all mine).
Now the situation was, me and wife were locked in kitchen with no cell phone, my boy crying outside in lobby. And obviously main door was locked too? it was quite a panic situation. My wife was trying to make my boy understand to rotate the key, but he didn?t know how to do and was crying?
But thanks to Allah, we had a balcony in kitchen, I moved outside and looked for someone down (from 8th floor). Then our watchman appeared (a Pakistani Pathan) and I called him from balcony, first he was unable to understand me from 8th floor but then few more people gathered and understood me that we are locked and helpless. Meanwhile, outside there was no noise from my kid, which made the situation bit more intense.
In Short, Watchman called a lockmaster. Who came, and within few seconds, broke the main door lock (cylinder). And opened kitchen door.
Alham dullilah, my son was ok on bed but he was too scared.
We remain locked for 45 mins but that was one of scariest moments of our lives. We were worried about our kid only. But alham dullilah, things were ok.
So the lesson learnt is, Always be very very cautious specially if you have kids. Because out of curiosity kids do something wrong and they don?t know what they have done?..
May Allah keep everyone safe.
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