A story of whispers left unspoken, unheard.
"I hate you!" He spat venomously through gritted teeth.
"Feelings are mutual." She replied back, smiled and walked away.
He didn't know who she was talking about...
A short story about her life. And ma...
"It hurts so much. Ya Allah it hurts so much!" Clutching her head, Laila wailed. Tears gushed from her closed eyes due to the growing unexplainable pain.
Maryam stared at her in pity, wishing she could help her out somehow, unknown of the fact that it wasn't just her head which was hurting, but her heart too.
"It feels like it's going to explode Maryam. What should I do?" Looking at her friend, she whispered. Both her heart and her head felt like exploding due to the overload of emotions along with her increasing sickness.
"Oh Laila!" Moving closer to her, she hugged her. Tears glistened in her own eyes, threatening to fall down. She had never seen her friend looking so broken and fragile before these past few days.
"I don't know how to decrease your pain, but there is a hadith that with every ounce of pain that we feel, our sins get washed away. So just imagine this as a way of Allah washing away your sins and you reaching your destined spot in Jannah." Maryam rubbed her back in hopes of comforting her somehow.
"Really?" Laila asked her friend in disbelief, some hope returning to her tired red eyes.
"Yes." She heard her best friend being so hopeful after a long time.
"Then I will take it as a blessing for I have a long list of sins." She closed her eyes once again, but this time with a pained smile on her face. "I am glad Allah is forgiving me here, Mayram. I am glad." She heard Laila's content voice as she leaned away from her to look at her with a small smile.
"Jazak Allahu Khairan for easing my troubled heart, Maryam. I can't even thank you enough for it." Holding her hands, she told her, now tears of gratitude flowing from her eyes.
"You are a blessing in my life Maryam, a blessing in disguise of a human." And tears gushed from her eyes too as she stared at her friend's broken form.
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