Irtaqaaii • ارتقائی • Evolution

The Shooting Star

Zaroon almost lost his footing and looked at his wife in a cold fury that would have frozen hell over. 

"Have you lost your mind Rehana, " he asked in a tone that told Rehana the depth of his anger on this proposition.

But Rehana had expected this hadn't she? She knew very well this was what was going to happen. Zaroon would never willingly get married again even after her death, let alone when she was alive. 

" I haven't lost it Zaroon. I gave this proposition a great deal of thought," She replied and Zarron scoffed at her. He would be difficult to convince. 

"A great deal of thought, You just met the girl today. Allah I just met the girl today, How can you give it a great deal of thought if you have met some just a few hours ago and for a few hours only," Zaroon was infuriated which was a given and he wasn't wrong. 

She had previously discussed a second marriage with him. After all, he had a number of valid reasons for it, but he had always gotten angry at her and left the conversation in middle. 

But she never had anyone in mind for him, just thought that he should get married. But today, today she had a person in her vision. She was not going to let it go this time, not when she was so sure of what she wanted for Zaroon's life. 

"I know I met her today, and believe me Zaroon, if I had met her before today I would have said it before," Rehana knew she had her husbands full attention now. 

"Zaroon, I might have told you to get married time and time again. But never with a name, never to a specific person. I met her and I knew, she is the only person I can actually see you with Zaroon," Rehana now was laying her heart out bare for him to see, he had to see. 

"She is young, she has a future, she can be great Rehana, she is intelligent and wonderful. And you want to ruin her life by getting her married to a married man and give up her freedom," Zaroon's voice was filled with respect, which only further confirmed, Rehana's decision was right.

"Exactly Zaroon, she is wonderful, she is intelligent and young, She will be there to walk as equals with you. She is exactly what you would want. And who said we are taking her freedom, any other respectable Muslim family would lock her up in the binds of this backward society. But you Zaroon, you would not. You would nurture her, you would be her wings, or rather you would be wind below her wings." Rehana was so sure of it now that even Zaroon would not be able to stray her from pursuing this proposal. 

"I am going to die, I know it and you know it. The only difference is that you refuse to accept it and live in denial. I on the other hand have accepted it," Rehana knew she was hurting him with the truth, but the truth never changed.

" And when I am gone, I want you to be happy, and I want her to be happy and protected. I have never felt as connected to someone as I do to her. Like an elder sister. And I know for a fact that this society, is going to stomp on her bright light, it will try everything in its power to extinguish her fire and I will not be here, for her or for you," Rehana said sadly and bitterly because again it was the truth of this society. 

" I can protect if you are gone," Zaroon said and he would have gone ahead with that thought if not for his wife breaking the bubble he was living in.

"Really with which right. A friend, a guardian, a man without a wife just looking out for a young unmarried woman," and as Rehana uttered these words she could see Zaroon understand what she was saying and just how much of it is actually going to happen, 

"The society won't mind that would it, but being a second wife to a married man, with a dying wife, and when it is actually allowed in his religion, now that they would mind," Rehana could see Zaronn flinch a little at the venom in her words.