Manama: Saeed Al Hazari had a normal life with his family in Bisha in the southwestern part of the kingdom until one day, when he was 18, his cousins told him that the woman with whom he was living with was not his real mother.
“His world was turned upside down and he wanted to know the truth about his real mother,” a relative, Ayed Al Kalbi, said, quoted by Saudi news site Al Marsad.
When Saeed pressed his father he revealed that he had taken a second wife when the military posted him in Jizan in the south of the country with whom he bore a son. When Saeed was only one month old, his father took him back to his hometown, Bisha, and asked his first wife to look after him.
Saeed’s second wife was devastated, but she was unable to convince the father to leave the child with her.
At 18, Saeed began a massive hunt to find his estranged mother.
He had absolutely no information to base his search on since his father had completely lost touch with his second wife and her family.
Ever determined, Saeed finally obtained the phone number of his mother’s sister.
He called her and discovered she lived in Riyadh.
Saeed immediately got into his car and drove the 990-kilometre distance from Bisha to Riyadh.
But in a tragic turn of events, Saeed had an accident before he reached Riyadh that left him in a coma.
When he awoke, doctors discovered he had lost his memory. Social media users offered their prayers for his speedy recovery and the chance to reunite with his mother.
They also took his father to task for “snatching” the baby boy from his mother in the first place.
