When Salman was 7 years old his parents died in clashes between police and mafia. His parents Mr & Mrs. Awan Ahmed both working under a police department as they were working on a case of some mafia "The Dragons" was rising at that time which the whole city of New York was terrified because of their terrific shelling, bombing and killing of innocent life's. Mr& Mr.s Awan was the first one to know the Mafia's boss(Vincent Rodegro) and they give their information to the head department due to which Vincent was blackmailing them not to give any other information to the police about him or else he will kill their only sob, they to protect Salman, thy give Salman to his uncle ( Mr ayub Awan) for his safety as he was living alone in USA .when Vincent couldn't find the trace of Salman ( as his uncle change his name to muraib and his sir name to Ali ) he killed both his parents. His uncle was very caring and loving to him, he always cared for him and tries to teach him Quran and Islamic teaching continuously because after knowing about his brother's and sister-in-law's death he just wanted to give Salman a good life and make him a good Muslim. when Salman was 12 years old he hifz the Quran. His uncle died because of lung cancer when Salman was 16 years old, After having no one besides him he started doing a part-time job in a bakery to earn something for paying his fees. After clearing for engineering test, he studied hard but at that time he somehow knew about his parent's death, that they were killed by a Mafia boss, he has a great urge to kill the mafia boss and his family he forget about everything about Islam and started working as a mafia boss with his right hand and best friend Zachary Domain.
Relation between Salman and Nazreen's parents:
Salman's parents and Nazreen's parents were best friends from their working days when Nazreen's family permanently moved to the USA from Pakistan, Salman's parents were their neighbors and became best friends. On that day when Vincent killed Salman's parents, after leaving their house, Nazreen's parents visited them as they were on vacation so they planned to pay a visit to them on their return from vacation. But the sight in front of them which makes them frightened was that they were seeing their best friends taking their last breath and they couldn't do anything as it was late now and Salman was nowhere to be found so they were really worried. But as they were about to call the ambulance and the police Nazreen's father saw that Mr. Awan was a bit conscious and was trying to say something as Mr. Mohammad got closer to him he gave him a piece of paper and took his last breath in his arms. In that paper, he told Nazreen's parents about Salman and asked them not to tell anyone about Salman.