Having lost both legs in a train accident, facing acute poverty, and belonging to a conservative Muslim family. She would not have needed any other excuse to give up in life.

Yet, fighting all odds and overcoming physical and language barrier, she cracked MBBS exams and is now preparing for post-graduate entrance.

The inspiring story of Roshan Jahan, the 23-year-old Muslim girl from Mumbai who hit the headlines after passing this year’s MBBS finals, went viral on print and electronic media, Internet and social networking sites, with each minute detail, except for one thing that she also has a golden voice.

Roshan Jahan left hundreds of students who had gathered at Zaini Basheer Hall in Malegaon to hear her story, mesmerised, and teary-eyed, by reciting tunefully a poem written and composed by her.

The poem was dedicated to her mother, who Roshan said, deserved, after Allah the Almighty, all credit for her extraordinary success.

“It is because of my mother, after Allah, the Almighty and the most Merciful, that I am standing here in front of you as a role model,” she said amid applause from hundreds of students.

She said after losing her both legs in the train accident, there were times, when she would feel completely hopeless. But, it was her mother, she said, who lifted her spirits up and gave her hope in her darkest hours.

“After I survived the train accident, my mother would say think…why Allah gifted you a ‘second life’. It must be for something really big,” she recalled.

Roshan Jahan’s legs had to be amputated after she fell off a local train in October 2008 while travelling from Andheri to Jogeshwari. She has been using prosthetic legs since April 2009. She was returning home after writing her college exam papers at Anjuman-i-Islam Girl’s college, Bandra, when she lost her balance and fell onto the tracks and her legs came under the moving train.

Recounting her ordeal, she said, “Orthopedic surgeon Dr Sanjay Kantharia who operated on me took care of me like I was his daughter. Even after the accident in 2008, I did not drop out and studied at home and appeared for exams.

“I cleared the state’s medical entrance exam, MHCET, and was later asked to go for a medical test for the handicapped at JJ Hospital. The doctors there said that as per the rules, only students who had between 40% to 70% disability could be given admission in the MBBS course. I was denied admission as I had 88% disability.”

She said Kantharia then suggested she move court.

“We met senior lawyer V P Patil, who took up my case for free. During the hearing I would go to the court with my relatives. Justice Shah, after hearing my petition and seeing me visiting the court, directed the college authorities to admit me,” Roshan said.

source: http://www.khaleejtimes.com / Khaleej Times / Home> Specials> Happiness Times / by Ummid.com / April 14th, 2016