Mushaf By Nimra Ahmad

Mushaf is the most extra-ordinary, intellectual and creatively written fictional story by Nimra Ahmed, who is one of the best, inspirational and thought-provoking writers of Pakistan. The name of the novel “MUSHAF” (Arabic name of the Holy Quran) gives us a hint that it is a story related to religious content or it might contain some verses with beautiful meaning and deep tafseer. Yes it is connected with all these aspects with such beauty and intellect that one might have never thought of Quran that way.

A reader of this novel journeys through suspense, excitement, love, trust, betrayal, crisis and harsh realities of a brutal life. Despite having all this, this novel leaves a permanent place in the reader’s heart. It starts with a glimpse of the magnificent beauty of morning. A girl reaches a bus stand and she has a strange bag on which her name is written “Mehmal Ibraheem”. She was really curious about the black skinned girl who was always there at the bus stand, sitting upright, wearing a scarf, with a strange shine in her eyes and had a strange book with black cover. Nimra Ahmed nailed the conversation between the black girl and Mehmal. It just makes you stick to the novel and it actually showed that the book had some kind of “magic” and that if you follow it you would have the whole world and if you would leave it you would be devastated.

The whole novel revolves around the life of the girl, Mehmal Ibraheem, who is displeased and irritated from the world. She is a beautiful girl with crystal-like shiny eyes and brown hair often tied up in a high pony tail. Her father passed away and she with her mother (Musarat) lives with her father’s family. Mehmal gets angry easily as she can’t withstand the atrocious behavior of the family members. The house was her father’s property and they had no right over it.

The novel takes a very strange turn when Mehmal decides to return the Mushaf to that black skinned girl and tries to make her realize that it was not the kind of a book that she portrays it to be and she knows about the Quran.

The next big twist happens when Fuwaad, her cousin, fools Mehmal and sells her to Hamayun and at that time I was shocked. Nimra Ahmed just beautifully showed that you have to trust no one especially a na-mehram. She is locked in a room and at that time I felt like there was no way Mehmal could ever get out of it. But there was something really impressive waiting for Mehmal, she somehow manages to run away and reach the roof of a madrassa. Humayun is later revealed to be a police officer who wanted to gather proof against Fuwaad

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