Don't lose hope, nor be sad, He will overcome your troubles if you are ( indeed ) believers. ~ Al.Quran
There were times when Eman herself could hardly continue with her tale. she found it almost too difficult to speak about subjects that were so full of sorrow for her.
At any one moment, her eyes would light up with anger, and then, an instant later, they would fill with tears of the deepest sorrow.
Sometimes, she was well in control of herself and would tell Khizer about events in a calm and steady voice, her face was showing no feeling at all.
Then, without any warning, her face would suddenly change to an expression of the wildest anger and she would shout out most awfully.
He believed everything she said. The honest and simple way in which she speaks suggest pure veracity, and he must admit.
He wished to soothe her, although how can he encourage anyone who was so deeply unhappy to continue with her life.
Yet he believed that now the only joy she can ever know will be when she accepted his proposal.
She enjoyed one comfort, which was the result of his being alone so much.
When she told him of her dreams, he found them almost as impressive and interesting as the truth.
She was simple and stubborn; she was just treated badly so it was part of her natural behaviour. Besides, with her intelligence, it was hard to agree with her.
In reality, she was alone and hurt. But she would never express it.
He would blaze with fury and shout out in a loud voice. Sometime, he would sit in a corner and speak to nobody for hours.
He saw a pale yellow moon shining through the wisdom. A twisted grin was on its face, it seemed to be laughing on him.
A mist covered his eyes and skin were burned dry with the heat of fever.
However, the next morning when Mama came to his room, he was better.
Mama questioned, "What happened, son?"
He replied, "Nothing particular."
Mama asked, "Do you like her?"
He replied helplessly, "Like! I don't know about like, Mummy. Eman Mustafa is just completely out of my realm of understanding and I just... "
He stopped for a while, controlling his inner thoughts.
Again he narrated, " I used to be sympathetic towards her but now sympathy has nothing to do with it. I can't pull my mind from thoughts of her. My heart wants to be with her again and again. Besides knowing that her heart doesn't be mine completely, my mind won't find a logic in it all. "
Tears came in his eyes and he rubbed them harshly.
Mama curious, "What do you like most about her? "
He answered, "As far as what I thought for my life partner would be like, she is completely the opposite. I wanted a happy girl whose smile enlightened my life, but she never smiles in front of me and I'm still helpless. I can't separate myself or my thoughts from her."
Mama commented, "Maybe there is a reason for all of that? I mean, what quality is it that you can't get out of your mind."
He didn't know the answer to this question and replied, "She is strange, Mummy, just... strange. "
He was just trying to show my helplessness to my mother.
After hearing all of this, she replied, " Well, if Allah has generated a love for her in khizer Murtaza's heart, then she must be a nice girl whose any characteristics will be loved by Allah. Allah will melt her heart for you, one day. Trust him and be patient, my son."
He smiled unintentionally. His heart received a strange satisfaction by hearing this.
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Khizer decided that he would try to win her heart again. So, he met her as he went with Yamna for their farewell.
"Who could believe that four years had passed since Eman and I truly met. Now she and Yamna were graduated. Of course, the fact is that I've known her for not just these past four years, I've been acquainted with her for the past seven years, back when she was a girl with no fear and no care in the world," Khizer thought.
Khizer told her, "I want to talk to you about something."
Eman asked, "What?"
He replied, "Please, forget all that has been painful for you. "
She smiled.
Eman asked, "We all must. Eventually, at any moment of our lives, we will pass from the period of ignorance. Some pass quicker than other, some spend their whole lives waiting."
He responded, "But your guilt tells that you have passed. Neither I'll stop you from feeling guilty and pardoning to your God, nor from your prayers. You must do so, but as well as you should be grateful to God that now, He set you free from all those things which held your heart before."
He further added, "If the world doesn't attract you, if there came tears in your eyes due to fear of God, if the imagination of hell disturbed your inner peace if good things attract you if you adore the God as He told, if you stop yourself from nonsense then there is no doubt that you are a good Muslim."
She was listening quite peacefully and silently.
He further narrated, "Some are good, and some showed themselves as good but fortunate are those who are good in reality and the second ones are like walking on the two-way sword, they have to face lots of problems and wasted a lot of time on showing things."
She slowly answered, "I'm not a good Muslim, khizer, so please, stop speaking lies."
He answered, "I'm still saying that you're a good Muslim, and Allah makes you good."
Due to his every word a strange satisfaction had fallen into her heart. She felt like she could trust his words.
She was surprised that this person, whom she didn't even like; now his words, his encouragement were affecting her so deeply, even her every broken piece and injury could receive a healing power.
Why did I feel satisfaction? Did my heart trust him? She thought.
All these questions attracted her mind but she was speechless.
Mama told her about a proposal which her family accepted for her. She was setting in her room, she felt no earth beneath her feet and no sky above her head in real sense. She didn't think about all this in her dreams that her family will do so. They were not so hard before but now they were. Her heart was unable to accept all this.
Her body was completely shaken, but as usual she cold herself, she thought of what she had to do. Slowly, so slowly, she accepted that they were right and that she'd have to accept it now.
However, while she was accepting, she wasn't completely agreeing. It started with the name of Allah and she would accept getting engaged and eventually married.
Another shock was waiting for her. As she accepted her mother's will, she was completely shaken down by her mother words about her to be a life partner or fiance.
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Hey Peeps!
So now what will happen next?
Would Eman accept khizer's love or not?
And the second thing, who was her fiance according to her mother? LA LA LA ...
Share your views with me.
With love
Mery
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General Fiction"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." He was all she needed. But after being rejected and ending up heartbroken, can Eman find her one and only? Or has she fallen out of love for good?
