Originally posted by: annihilation
 
Yes. Equally annoyed here too. Not sure if you're practice any religion and if you do, particularly Islam, sex is such a sacred concept. And if you study about it through lens of souls connecting and that deed bringing about a life into the world, it's even deeper. For these two characters, it wasn't just some shoddy concept. 
The reason Meerub placed the condition and someone like Murtasim accepting the condition meant they both understood, valued and respected the concept of consent. And that sex between husband and wife, ideally the best kind, the kind where you establish and feel a connection on all levels, mind, body and soul isn't something that is to be done merely to satisfy one's physical desires and needs. Sex as a concept to feed one's body because that's one of the most basic human needs also is a different concept altogether and that is not what I'm discussing and tbh, that doesn't even fit into Murtasim and Meerub's dynamic. 
Because if acceptance and complete acceptance through making place in each other's heart and thereby, giving up one's body to the other as a form of expressing that love wasn't important to either of them, didn't hold a lot of significance and value and if the whole jihad (read : struggle or battle) against one's own nafs wasn't to gain respect and acceptance then these two would have done it a long time ago. I'm sure there must have been pak shows where consummation came before love? I can't recall anyone right now but I'm guessing there must have been. And to do such a huge disservice to one's own product....nah, I don't get this Nooran woman as a writer. 🤪
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But obviously, the whole bathroom sequence and Meerub's devastating look doesn't make sense in this context because it was intended as an MR originally. The more I think, the more I'm sure about it lol. Thanks to the fandom, bach gaye baal baal. 
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