Samareen and Amjad were cousins.
They grew up together, passed their childhood & youth together and enter
their adult age together. They were deeply in love with each other. They could
not pass a day without meeting each other. They were one of the luckiest couple
that their families never objected to their getting married and they were
joined in the wedlock, to their hearts’ desire.
Both were from mediocre
families. However, Amjad worked very hard and having Samareen at his side become
very successful businessman and in about 10 years, become a multimillionaire.
However, their other family members/ relatives remained at the same mediocre level
economically. It was only Amjad’s brilliance with Samareen at his support that
elevated him from mediocre to multimillionaire.
They were lost in each other’s
love for almost 11 years but without having the grace of ALLAH in shape of a
child. After mutual deliberations and understanding they decided to adopt a
child. By visiting an orphanage, they adopted a baby girl. Happiness, in their
life became full and with the new family member in their family, they were not
bothered what is going around them in the world. Samareen and Amjad had only
one world. They had their own world, where they were only three; Samareen,
Amjad & their baby girl Anosha.
ALLAH had been very kind to
Amjad due to his good human nature. He was very caring and had a very kind
heart. Both he & Samareen were always all out to help the needy. Nobody
would ever go empty handed from his door.
Many more years passed until one
day, when Anosha turned 18 that suddenly Samareen died, nobody knew what happened.
She slept alright at night but did not wake up the next morning.
The world crashed infront of
Amjad and Anosha. If it was not of Anosha, Amjad would not have bared the loss
and the shock. It was their mutual love of Amjad & Anosha that they
supported each other and survived.
04 month after the death of
Samareen, a strange and unfortunate issue was raised by the relatives of Amjad.
Of course it was evident that their evil mind was behind that. As Amjad and
late Samareen never had their child so greed over took the minds of their
relative and they intrigued. They had their eyes on the wealth of Amjad, which
was in shape of priceless real estate, two Sugar Mills & a large business of
import/ export of readymade garments. To their mind they were the rightful kin
of Amjad.
The very wisely raised issue was
that under the Islamic Laws, an adult man cannot live with an adult woman under
one roof unless they have a permissible relationship. So, an adopted adult
young girl cannot live with an adult man, may it be the adopted father.
This really perplexed
and flabbergasted Amjad. He had virtually raised the girl from the age when
even her eyes were not opened to the stage where now she was a beautiful young
lady.
He was literally, together with
her wife, raised her on his chest, and at times even changed her diapers. He
has been taking care of her in all her sickness and had literally remained
awake many nights. He taught her how to talk, how to walk, how to eat and has
been walking her to school.
In desperation, he consulted the
renowned learned Islamic Scholars for a solution but all had one answer. He
cannot live together with his adopted adult daughter under one roof. He was to
part from her immediately. He cried the whole night and also shared his pain
with his girl.
So, he found a solution himself.
He found a young lad for his girl and married them and after a while, gifted
all his property to his girl Anosha.
Those all his evil minded
relatives challenged his transfer of property decisions in the court but
failed. The court decided in favour of Amjad.
This stress however took its
toll and Amjad could not survive parting of Anosha and died within months of
her marriage and left this cruel world and joined Samareen.
Another such case came before me
but only with the change of characters. In that the Couple adopted a baby boy
and raised him. The father died when the adopted boy became a young lad of 15
years. Now again the same problem came up. A woman may it be her adopted
mother, cannot live with him under the same roof as she did not have any permissible
relationship with the boy. The end of that story was very sad and tragic. As the
mother was poor and she did not had any bread winner and only had his 15 years son
on her side who himself was still studying in his school, but still the mother
had to part with the adopted son............
Posted by Zaffar Iqbal Durrani
