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Hasn’t Sarwar come with you?
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I think that perhaps he was busy at the office.
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Oh really?
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...But everyone from the office came for the funeral.
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It was the right thing for them to do, to pay their last respects…
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since Munshi ji had spent his whole life looking after dad’s business and Abdullah.
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I think he deserved at least this much.
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Oh but I forgot that at the Shahbaz villa, its the done thing to take a person’s rights from them.
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And this is exactly what you did with Mahjabeen and Munshi ji.
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I would however like you to remember one thing,
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by getting Mahjabeen the divorce, you’re clearing Sarwar’s path.
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By allowing him to get his own way you’re hurting yourself.
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Hello?
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What do you think of yourself Abdullah!
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I’ve been calling and messaging you for hours!
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But you haven’t bothered to answer any of my calls and or messages,
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instead all you’ve done is cut my calls!
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Look… Shanzeh, I’m… I’m not feeling well so please can we talk later?
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I want to talk right now.
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You’ve finally returned from your wife’s house have you?
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Have you successfully wiped away her tears?
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Let me tell you one thing today very clearly Abdullah,
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I don’t care what the situation is out there…
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but if you do not give Mahjabeen that divorce,
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I will refuse you on our wedding day.
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Okay… okay, I get it.
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Are you the reason behind Munshi ji death?
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What!
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Are you sane?
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Who told you this?
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Did Munshi ji’s corpse get up and tell you this or have you started to dream in the day as well?
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I was with Munshi ji at the time of his death and he told me everything!
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I see.
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So what did Munshi ji tell you?
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What you want cannot happen!
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I will never let it happen!
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What do I want?
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Mahjabeen.
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Enough.
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I’ve tolerated enough of your nonsense and there’s a limit to what I’ll take!
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You have no idea what you’re saying
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because this isn’t you, this is Lala Rukh talking…
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I’m neither Mom and nor am I Abdullah!
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I’m Vashma and I know everything!
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Mahjabeen isn’t some property dad left behind as inheritance which you can fool and take over.
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Mahjabeen is the honor of this family!
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Like me, she is a daughter of this family!
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And if I can save myself from a filthy and lowlife like you
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then I can definitely save Mahjabeen.
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You know what,
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I always thought you to be a greedy man who ran after money.
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But you, you turned out to be a killer as well.
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And you will have to pay for Munshi ji’s death.
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You wont be able to save yourself this time.
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You just wait and watch.
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I don’t want to give her a divorce.
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Then don’t give it.
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As I just said, you don’t need to do this.
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But Mom… if Shanzeh finds out that I’m not giving Mahjabeen a divorce then
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she wont marry me.
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Only if she finds out will she not marry you.
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And how will she find out?
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Who’s going to tell her?
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There’s no need for you to divorce Mahjabeen.
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Dont do this.
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Why not?
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Weren't you and dad the ones who said that Mahjabeen couldn’t live here…
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that she would never be able to adjust into our family.
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That she was a mismatch.
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Did you ask dad?
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No.
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And I’m not going to ask him either.
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Why not?
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I don’t know.
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May I… may I ask you something?
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You may.
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Do you ever get confused?
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Confused about what?
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You know… between what’s true and what’s lies.
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Son, everyone gets confused between the truth and lies.
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Yes, even I get confused.
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But one shouldn't take a hasty decision when confused.
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One should be careful.
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Take a decision only when everything’s clear in your head.
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Yes… but what if what Mahjabeen said is actually true?
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Son… God forbid that is so.
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Yes?
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Who is it my dear?
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Her father is dead but her mother is still alive!
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Your husband was arrogant about the same thing.
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I really tried to make him understand… look at the end result.
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You buried him.
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What has he left you and your daughter?
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This exactly what I tried to make him understand.
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There was no point to this pride and honor.
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I used to tell him, ‘If not about yourself, then think about your wife and daughter.’
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You still have time.
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Bow to the truth.
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May God never bring us to the point where I or my daughter have to bow down to you!
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You’re intoxicated by the power you wield.
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But He’s still sitting up there
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and the moment He wields His staff you will be seen on your knees in fear!
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I’ve seen the wind change its direction.
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And I can now myself change the direction of the wind.
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I wield that kind of power.
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She’s sitting in front of you isn't she?
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Look at her.
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Her husband’s left her.
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But I’ll still willing to marry her.
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I will marry her no matter what.
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I’ll die but I will never let this happen!
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I always knew that he wasn’t a good man.
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But I had no idea that he was that bad!
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How can someone fall so low?
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First he claimed to love you, then he married Mom because of the Inheritance…
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and now Mahjabeen???
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He’s sick!
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How can someone so debased be loved by my mother?
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I wonder when Mom’s going to get out of his trap.
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This is what being trapped by love is like Vashma.
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And Sarwar really knows how to get around people.
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Even after having gotten out from under his trap I ached for him for many years.
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He knows how to slit someone’s throat with love really well.
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Poh, what did he say when he left you?
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He said that… initially he felt compassion for bhabhi but the later he fell in love with her.
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All crap!
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Yes.
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He always had a way with words.
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Did you never try to save Mom?
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Vashma,
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my brother made bhabhi long for his love their entire marriage.
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And I felt that if I moved back, I could perhaps make up for the many wrongs he did her.
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But his love was just a lie.
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I get really angry when I think how Mom is pretending innocence even while knowing everything.
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And that Abdullah,
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he trusts that foul man even more than Mom!
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The whole world could be wrong but his perfect dad can never be wrong no matter what.
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And I don’t care what Abdullah wants
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and I don’t care what Mom thinks,
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I will not allow Mahjabeen to become a meal for that wolf!
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And I will do whatever I can to prevent it.
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This cannot happen.
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I cannot let this happen.
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What’s wrong Sarwar?
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You’ve really changed…
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or maybe your priorities have changed?
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I considered going to a business meeting more important
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than going to that thief Munshi’s funeral and that’s all I did.
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I’m not talking about Munshi
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I’m talking about us.
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Where have those days gone…
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the time when your day never used to start until you’d seen my face.
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You used to be with me in the evenings.
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And now…
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I never know when you’re coming or going.
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What’s happened?
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What kind of strange talk is this Mansura.
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My love for you has never been able to remove your doubts.
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I really love you a lot.
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Whether you’re near me or far away,
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you are always close to me
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I… had a meeting.
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I needed to close a deal.
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It didn’t happen.
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Maybe I expected too much from it.
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Which is why I was a little stressed… and sad.
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There’s no other reason.
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I just wanted to cheer up myself before showing my face to you
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that’s all.
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Abdullah… what I wanted to say was that could you show me where daddy’s buried
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so Ma and I could go visit…
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and recite the Fateha .
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I’m there so I’ll take you. You don’t need your mother to take you.
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No, no.
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You cant keep coming back and forth to help us every time now can you.
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And besides you’re getting married arent you?
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And you’ll forget me as it is.
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I wont forget you.
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You wont forget me?
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Huh?
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No… I just remembered.
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You promised me one time that you wouldn’t marry your beloved
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but then you broke that promise later.
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You will forget me even now… I know it.
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I’m not your beloved.
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Anyways, show me my father’s grave.
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Once we know we’ll go on our own.
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Will you show it to me?
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Yes… yes.Lets go.
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Whenever daddy would get sick,
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he would make a huge noise about it at home.
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Ma and I would take such great care of daddy…
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because we didn’t want anything to happen to him.
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But I wonder how daddy bore it when he got ill in jail.
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He must have been all alone… I wonder how he managed.
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My father wasn’t a thief. He was not a thief.
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He worked with great honesty and faithfulness his whole life.
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He looked after everyone.
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And the same people treated my father so badly.
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He was punished for protecting his own.
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I will now study with all my heart.
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And I will come in first place.
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And then when I become rich I will punish everyone… everyone!
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Who will you punish?
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I will punish those that treated my father badly because of whom my father lost his life.
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They’re bad people… all of them.
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And do you know something, whether you believe it or not…
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God knows that I’m right in what I’m saying.
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God knows doesn’t He?
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God will help me to get my revenge.
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I will get my revenge of all those people… those bad people.
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And… even if no one loves me, God must love me?
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I’m not that pathetic.
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I will avenge myself of everyone.
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Daddy… I really miss you a lot.
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Your love…
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and even your punishment is something that I miss a lot.
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Hello uncle?
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So yes Shanzeh, where have you been?
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There’s no news of you and nor have you been around to the house or the office
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Have you two had a tiff or something?
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What else am I to do uncle?
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Haven’t you noticed Abdullah’s behavior towards me?
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I mean why does he have to go to his ex-wife’s house after he’s given her a divorce?
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Compassion… empathy… call it whatever you like
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Look he is going across to condole with her,
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as one goes even to a strangers home… and then she is his past.
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But she’s only his past and you are his present, his future.
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Uncle but…
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Shanzeh please, you trust me now.
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Try and understand what I’m saying.
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Dont ruin your future because of the past.
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If the two of you have some misunderstanding between you
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then talk to him about it openly and clear it up.
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Show your right over him.
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Ask him for what is yours.
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But don’t stay quiet.
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This silence, its something which ends up ruining the best of relationships…
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it throttles it.
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Go meet him.Talk to him.
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Okay?
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Yeah…
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okay, thank you uncle.
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That’s great.
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And if there’s any other problem, you can always call me.
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Take care, bye.
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Bye.
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Be brave.
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Be brave Mahjabeen.
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Hello?
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How many times have I told you that I don’t want to speak to you.
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Why do you keep calling me up again and again?
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I hear Abdullah has given you a divorce?
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Who told you this?
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No, he’s not said any such thing.
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You’re lying.
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I’m not lying.
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He’s hiding the truth from you.
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My father used to say that you lie, that you’re a liar and that I shouldn’t believe you!
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Yes!
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Hello?
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Hello Abdullah, you haven’t divorced me have you?
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No… no, no… no. Why?
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This means that he was lying.
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Who… who was lying?
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For the love of God, I beg you don’t leave me otherwise I’ll die.
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Hello?
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Mahjabeen, you haven’t eaten a thing.
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I just don’t know what kind of fever this is that wont come down
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What’s wrong… are you feeling dizzy again?
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My head feels as if everything’s turning round and around and around.
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I feel as the time of my death is near Ma.
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What nonsense are you talking Mahjabeen
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Your father hasn’t been gone long and you’re saying this.
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God would never be so unkind as to leave me without support in this world
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You’re right… you’re right.
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God only calls good people to him
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What will he do with a stupid girl like me.
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No my dear, you are my sweetest child.
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If only someone could see you with my eyes…
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because then they would know that you are the world’s most
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innocent and loving of daughters.
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Parents always say such things about their own children.
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Do you remember… do you remember Ma, how daddy never disliked me either.
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Like even when I would fail and come home, instead of scolding me he would hug me.
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Ma, do you think dad is missing me out there?
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Yes, my dear.
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No matter where a parent may be, they never forget their children
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Ma?
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Hmm?
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Ma is it also not possible that daddy prays for me out there
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and Abdullah turns up out here to take me back
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and he leaves Shanzeh?
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It is possible isn’t it Ma?
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And isn’t it also possible that Abdullah starts to love me like the way he loves Shanzeh
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yes?
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Who knows… who knows… maybe it will happen.
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Yes my dear, anything is possible.
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Anything is possible if God wills it Mahjabeen.
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Sometimes when he decides to bless a person with something…
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its so much that there’s hardly any place left for it.
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Never lose hope, okay?
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But also remember one thing Mahjabeen, don’t ever forget reality.
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Because sometimes this reality is what creates patience in times of an fortunate destiny,
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okay?
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My baby…
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Assalamwalekum .
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Walekumassalam .
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How are you my dear?
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I’m fine.
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How are you?
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I’m fine.
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Please sit.
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Mahjabeen?
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I’m glad you came over.
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Because when you come I feel as if…
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Abdullah’s come over.
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Sorry, its been so many days since the funeral
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and you must be thinking that I haven’t come by but Mom…
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Mahjabeen?
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You have really high fever.
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You’re burning up.
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Aunty?
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Are you alright?
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Mahjabeen has really high fever!
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Yes, my dear her fever is quite high.
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And whenever she would fall ill before, her father would take her to the doctor.
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But just look at her now, she’s being stubborn and isn’t willing to go to one now!
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Why don’t you try to make her understand.
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Doesn't matter, I’m here now so I’ll take her to the hospital.
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No.
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Ma… uh… what I was saying was that… if you could make us some tea.
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We’ll have tea and then go, okay?
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How are you related to her?
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She’s my sister-in-law.
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She needs to be very careful now.
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Its not good for her to take any stress in this condition.
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Is she pregnant?
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Yes and one has to be very careful in the early stages of a pregnancy.