The Story of Hussain Andaryas

I was born to an Afghan family on the 23rd of June 1965 (2 of Saratan, 1344). I was raised as a Muslim in the capital city Kabul. I was home-schooled in the primary levels and then joined Lais-e-Habibya, a secondary school.

My home-schooling was due to my parents’ frequent trips to India and Japan. In fact, I went to Habibya just to prevent my joining the Communist Afghan army. Actually, I wanted to fight against the Russians along with my other Afghan brothers. I assume that my father paid a huge bribe to the authorities in order to keep me from
going into the army.

My father was a businessman, and my mother was a doctor. From the very beginning of my life I learned that I belonged to an oppressed ethnic group which suffered centuries of oppression and hatred. I felt this in the school where others looked down on me and mocked me. Growing up in this environment I became full of hate for others. Even though my teachers did not openly say anything bad about my people, I understood from their behavior that they did not like me. I never failed in school and always came up with the best grades in my class. This fact added to the hatred some students and teachers had toward me. Did I meet an Angel from God?

In the mid-80’s on my way home from school one day I met a stranger. I was standing at the bus stop and waiting to go home when I saw a man from the other side of the road coming towards me. He was not an Afghan, for sure. He had a bag on his arm and was in a great hurry. As he approached I was scared. I thought he might be a Russian. It was the time when Russian troops invaded Afghanistan and we saw many Russian soldiers and officers moving around in the city. When the man reached where I was standing, he didn’t say anything; instead, he took out a book written in Persian and then he did a very unusual thing. He tore a few pages from this book and handed them to me. I was very surprised when he did this. At the same time I was very scared. He thought for a moment and tore a few more pages from the book and gave them to me saying, "Take these and read them; they are good for you. I was sure he gave me those pages to convert me to Communism. He then left me, and I never saw him again...more

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Used by permission of HeSavedMe.com. For more about Hussain Andaryas, visit his web site.

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