The other woman's DAUGHTER

Maryam never had a say. Although her situation wasn't her fault, people never fail to rub it in her face.

If she was a child out of wedlock, she wouldn't have been sad. Atleast she'd be paying for her parent's sin.

If she was an Almajira, she'd still lift her head up high and accept what ever the world threw at her, atleast she would still be paying for her parent's sin for throwing her out into the streets.

If she was a prostitute, Heck! she'd stand proud and tall, atleast it was her decision to sell her body to men.

But, she was neither one of this things. She had lost her father, a day before she was born. Her mother got married to someone else a week later!

That marriage came with a whole lot of burden. A burden she was subjected to by her gullible mother.
A burden she had no choice but to embrace.