The entire city has a very skilled doctor. He is not from this city. He comes from outside the city on Tuesday evenings and visits many patients until late at night. He does not get tired of the crowd. He is very ethical and patient. Many patients come from all surrounding cities during this half-day.
If the people of this city observed hygiene and if general practitioners fulfilled their duties, the number of patients visiting this doctor might be reduced to one percent of the current amount, and this one percent would have a type of illness that specifically requires diagnosis and treatment by this skilled doctor and not any other.
The tired and desperate individuals who head to Jamkaran on Tuesday evenings—Wednesday nights—99% of their issues are not within Jamkaran’s expertise.
For example, a thirty-year-old man who has gone through countless troubles to obtain a Bachelor’s degree, is unemployed, has no money, and is unmarried. A girl who has long been depressed due to not receiving a suitable marriage proposal worth her weight. Mothers who go to Jamkaran for the marriage luck of their children. Patients who do not have enough money for surgery or proper and thorough treatment. A father who has become desperate about his living expenses. A merchant whose bounced checks smell like bankruptcy. A woman whose husband is in prison, who is both harassed by creditors, ashamed in front of people, whose children miss their father, and who is desperate for living expenses. A tenant who is tired of being homeless.
All of these head to Jamkaran.
But we must accept that the remedy for all these ailments does not lie in the hands of the master of Jamkaran.
Many of them gain no result from going to Jamkaran and return disappointed.
Some incurable pains, like the pain of unrequited love and cancer, have their own place because the scientists have not yet discovered a definitive cure for these ailments.
But must we seek the remedy for all ailments from this one skilled doctor?
If over the recent decades, the officials had fulfilled their duties and we, the nation, had not given our intelligence a vacation, would we have all these incurable ailments?
I am certain that if the Jamkaran mosque were located in Switzerland or Norway and, even if it had been more necessary for people to visit it, still at most, only one percent of all these people might gather around it.
The Holy Quran states in the eleventh verse of Surah Ar-Ra’d: “Indeed, Allah will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves.”