Edhi lived in a bare room in Karachi, alternating between his two suits of black clothes and occasionally listening to recordings of Quranic verses on a battered old tape recorder.
“When my ambulance takes a wounded person who is in pain to the hospital, when people reach the hospital, I find peace in knowing I helped an injured person who was in pain,” Edhi told Reuters in an interview in 2013.
“My mission is to love human beings … Each day is the best day of my life.”
Throughout his life and after he died, many questioned why Edhi never received the Nobel Peace Prize. In his last interview with The Express Tribune, Edhi said, “I don’t care about it. The Nobel Prize doesn’t mean anything to me. I want these people, I want humanity.”
Calling him an “angel of mercy”, Google asked people to “lend a hand to someone in need today” in celebration of the life that the philanthropist lived.
The Google doodle shows Edhi clad in a simple shalwar kameez, surrounded by his legacy — an Edhi ambulance, a hospital, a woman holding a child and even a dog, which pays tribute to his animal shelter.
Google’s tribute to Edhi can be seen in United States, Iceland, Portugal, Australia, Sweden, Greece, New Zealand, Japan, Estonia, UK, South Korea, Ireland and Pakistan.
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Abdul Sattar Edhi (Late) - A King without crown 