MySecretQalam
His Halal Obsession
He lived in darkness. She prayed for his light. Neither expected Allah to write their names into the same story.
Zayn Rahman is twenty-nine and a half, dangerously powerful, painfully arrogant, and feared by almost everyone who knows his name.
Muslim by birth but distant from his deen, Zayn lives a life filled with secrets, power, alcohol and sins he stopped trying to justify long ago.
And behind the respectable title of businessman lies the truth no one is supposed to discover.
Zayn Rahman is mafia.
Then there is twenty-one-year-old Inaya Ahmed.
Kind-hearted. Stubborn. Talkative. Practising.
And completely unimpressed by him.
With eight and a half years between them and personalities that clash at every turn, their first meeting ends in irritation-and every meeting afterwards seems to make things worse.
Until circumstances neither of them expected lead to one thing:
Nikah.
Now the man Inaya can't stand is her husband.
A possessive husband who doesn't like another man looking at his wife.
A man surrounded by women yet never glances at anyone except her.
And unfortunately for Inaya, she's beginning to discover that she's just as jealous.
But Zayn is hiding a world she knows nothing about.
And when the truth finally comes out, love won't be enough to fix what is broken.
Inaya can make dua for him.
She can encourage him.
She can love him.
But she cannot guide his heart.
Only Allah can do that.
A story of enemies becoming husband and wife, jealousy, family, secrets, repentance, forgiveness and two imperfect Muslims finding their way closer to Allah-and eventually, to each other.
Her dua. His hidayah. Their qadr.
Roman Urdu dialogue includes English translations.
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