32. SABRUN JAMEEL

"If Allah knows [any] good in your hearts, He will give you [something] better than what was taken from you, and He will forgive you; and Allah is Forgiving and Merciful." (QURAN 8:70)

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He continued to sit in his place on the ground and watch me unblinking. As if, his mind couldn't comprehend what his ears were hearing and he wished someone to nudge him out of this trance.

Finally, he blinked and averted his gaze. His mouth hung open, in hope to say something but words seemed to have lost him. I kept on watching the bewildered look on his face, even when he had got up to turn his back on me.

"Aasiya—" I heard him say a moment's while later, but still didn't look up.

"I get it. I understand." He began slowly, as if still trying to process the information, I had just dumped on him.