Before Moomal could react, Ghulam Ali grabbed Moomal's wrist and moved towards the main door taking her with him.
"No, brother, please stop..." Zarina Beghum wanted to move towards them to stop him, but she was out of breath, her condition was getting worse. Rabia and Sughra Aunty were with her. But Ghulam Ali didn't even bother to look at her.
He took only two steps, mostly, yet he stopped again.
No, let's just say, he had to stop.
"Leave my wife's hand..." Huzaifa, who had previously been silent because of his father Mueez, was enraged by Ghulam Ali's move to take Moomal out of the house. And he could no longer restrain himself and stood before them like a wall.
Everyone could see that he was trying to control his anger.
"Which wife you are talking about...? Moomal is my son's fiancée." Ghulam Ali refused to accept this marriage. "Get out of the way, boy!" He shouted, almost furious.
"Leave Moomal's hand, and Huzaifa will move out of your way. And by what right are you accusing us of deception? , you may have forgotten that this deception started by your own family. After Zarina's marriage, you and your father married your daughter to someone else instead of Mueez."
This time Allah Dino Sahib spoke in a harsh tone. Remembering the past, he felt like killing that man in front of him.
"You were the ones who stopped my daughter from contacting her parents! Have you forgotten about that? Do you want me to remind you of your deception?!"
He said, looking at him with his piercing gaze. He had dumbfounded Ghulam Ali by saying all of this.
Then he looked at Huzaifa. "Huzaifa! Take Moomal to your room..."
Ghulam Ali had no idea that this old man would dig out those old skeletons from the past.
Huzaifa proceeded on the orders of his grandfather. Without any hesitation, first he freed Moomal's wrist from her uncle's grip, then began to take her to his room, ignoring Ghulam Ali's hateful eyes.
Ghulam Ali gritted his teeth in anger. He knew there was nothing he could do. Because they have tied Moomal with their home by such a strong bond that he cannot break it so easily unless Moomal herself break it.
If years ago he had denied his greedy and evil-minded wife and wouldn't have allowed his widowed sister-in-law Zarina and Moomal to come to this house, then today Moomal would have been married to his son Zain.
Not to this Huzaifa!
"I know why you guys did all of this ... but listen... today you guys stopped my niece from going with me, but Ghulam Ali is not one of those people who sit quietly. After giving his warning, he did not stop there and walked out the door with his two companions.
Watching him goes, Mueez Sahib breathed a sigh of relief and sat down on the sofa holding his head in his hands. While Allah Dino Sahib sank into deep thinking.
Sughra Begum and Rabia have gone, and Zarina Begum were also taken to her room.
A few moments later Mueez Sahib looked at his father. "Baba, I think Ghulam Ali will not remain silent."
"I know... Moeez, tell Sughra to pack my things, I am going to the village today." Allah Dino Sahib spoke in his typical rough tone.
"But Baba, it has only been a week since you came...? Why so soon ...?"Mueez Sahib said in a depressed tone.
"I don't like the air in this city because of Moomal's sudden marriage. Ghulam Ali, in his anger, will definitely do something with your older brother. I don't want to leave all of this to your brother to handle alone, I have to go myself today." Allah Dino said while getting up with the help of his staff.
Mueez Sahib also got up with him but started walking two steps behind his father.
Despite being 80 years old, Allah dinu was in very good health, and his dignified personality was still the same . There was no difference after so many years of his life. Maybe that's why Moeez Sahib would ask his Baba for help whenever he was in trouble.
When Zarina wept and told him to end Momal's engagement with his cousin Zain, he spoke of this matter to his father.
And he was the one who decided to marry Huzaifa and Moomal within a week.
Many years ago, Allah Dino Sahib was married to his own cousin. In the first two years of his marriage, Allah blessed him with his eldest son Azeem and during the next five-year Allah blessed him with another son ( Mueez ) and a daughter ( Zareena , Moomal's Mother).
Years after thatthat, he married his eldest son to his brother's only daughter, Sorath.
When it was Mueez's time to get married , Mueez informed him of his choice.
Mueez's choice was none other than the girl from another large family in his village. But it wasn't just that, the two families had been at odds for years.
But for the sake of his son, Allah Dino Sahib ended this enmity and extended a hand of friendship to him and asked him for his daughter's hand for his son.
At that time, Ghulam Ali's father Shams-ud-Din also accepted his offer, but with one condition.
And the condition was that he would give his daughter's relationship only if Allah dinu also give his daughter's hand in marriage to his younger son 'Uthman. Which Allah Dino Sahib gladly accepted.
Because the whole village was aware of the honest and good character of Uthman, the youngest son of Shamsuddin.
Thus, the relationship between the two families was established. But then a month later Shamsuddin Sahib decided to marry his son Uthman and also said that he would marry his daughter a month later. On which Allah Dino Sahib supported him without thinking further.
months' time didn't matter to him at all, and he thought that maybe after his son's wedding he would need some time to marry his daughter.
And thus Zarina became the wife of Uthman Shamsuddin.
But no one knew that this marriage, which was performed in the name of uniting two families, would create a new wave of hatred between the two families.
In the early days of the marriage, Zareena Begum was allowed to visit her parents. But as soon as a month had passed since their marriage, she suddenly stopped visiting her parent's home.
When Allah Dino Sahib went to Sham-ud-deen. To decide his son's wedding date, he got the news that Shams-sud-Din's daughter who was engaged to Mueez has gotten married to a boy from the city.
This news had shaken the earth under the feet of Allah Dino Sahib. Because this news given by Shams-ud-Din , had told to him in an instant about his conspiracy and deception.
At that time, the matter between the two families would have turned bloody if the life of Allah Dino's daughter Zareena was not at stake.
Allah Dino wanted to make a decision many times, but the result of any decision would not be in favor of his daughter. On the other hand, Zarina Begum also begged her father not to take any drastic decision. Because now that she was a married woman, she didn't want to end her marriage at any cost.
Because unlike the rest of her in-laws, her husband loved her, respected her, protected her.
And that is why, for the sake of his daughter, Allah Dino Sahib remained silent in this whole matter. And Mueez, who was sad himself, left the decision of his marriage to his father and mother.
In the same year, Mueez was married to one of his close relatives. And he left the village and shifted to Karachi. And that's where he started his business.
On the other hand, Zarina Begum, who had a daughter after four years of marriage, was very happy. As long as Shams-Shams-ud-Din lived, he never allowed Zareena Begum to contact her family.
But after his death, when Uthman became independent despite the anger of his brother, he took her and his daughter to meet Allah Dino Sahib.
But she did not know that this happiness was only for a few months because a few months later, Uthman, who was running his factory in the city, died in an accident on his way back from there.
And so Zareena Begum began to live at the mercy of her brother-in-law and sister-in-law.
She knew that Uthman had already shifted all his wealth and business to her daughter Moomal name. But she also knew that against her wishes he also engaged Moomal with his nephew Zain.
Ghulam Ali's wife often ordered her around to do house chores despite heavy servants in the house, which at first Zarina Begum endured due to the compulsion of circumstances, but when it came to her bad behavior with Moomal, Zarina Begum broke her silence.
As a result, that matter reached Ghulam Ali.
And that day, Begum Zareena knelt before him and asked his permission to go to her father's house.
Ghulam Ali who at first wanted to deny, but the thought of his evil-minded wife, who was already looking for a way to get rid of Zareena Begum and his daughter, and for this reason that his wife did not harm Moomal in his absence. He gave her the permission to go to her brother's, but with this condition that Moomal is his son's fiancée whom he will take back with him when the time comes.
At first, Zarina with Moomal moved to her elder brother's house, and then at the decision of her father, she shifted to Mueez's house in Karachi.
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