CRUEL

                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