Bookmarking. I have my thoughts on this. It’s a messy situation. Will try to get back by weekend.Originally posted by: hypnotoad
Until yesterday I thought MR was a hook to create MR/no MR suspense which they will reveal in the final episode through a FB or conversation.
But watching the episode today, esp. Merub and MK actions/reactions - I found myself getting confused. On one hand, it seemed possible that MR actually happened but there are also counter-arguments.
I would like to hear if others have any thoughts or became confused like I did.
Merub's action/reaction
Merub showed no guilt, remorse, shame for having disappeared for 2 years and hiding the baby from her birth father. She made no apologies nor was she asked to make any apologies. Her attitude towards MK - the stony expression when he asks her to sit next to him. Her laying down conditions for staying with MK.
For MR: It all seemed like someone who had a reason to be angry and who feel justified in their stand-offish attitude.
Against MR: Merub was always the type who did not admit her mistakes - nor was she shown to be particularly repentant about not informing friends and family for 2 years about her well-being at least. Also, if it was MR, why name your daughter Meesam? What of those spoken dialogs (not voice overs) in previous episodes about inflicting this saza on herself or her praise for MK or her longing? Merub was also shown as someone who never really forgave Wakas and Anila for that one time they did not open their door, despite their repeated attempts at reconciliation or their support for her later. Then how can she forgive MK?
Murtasim's action/reaction
MK cried and knelt on his knees for `maafi'. It wasn't once. He said it multiple times that he is sorry and to forgive him. He was begging Merub to sit next to him to talk. He said he has changed - he does not get angry nor does he have the `zid' and `akad' anymore, and that he is willing to do anything Merub wants him to if only she does not leave him.
For MR: These are the kind of things one would say or do if they have guilt, shame, if they feel they have committed a serious offense. For Merub ran off after consensual sex, for what mistake he wants forgiveness. What sin is he atoning for?
Against MR:
Either MK is so broken - like children in dysfunctional homes who feel that if they are on their best behavior, their parents will not divorce - that he would do anything for her not to leave him. Or they are insinuating he has reached the seventh stage of ishk where he has completely annihilated his self, his ego and only being Merub matters. This seventh stage of ishk is also called maut (Death). In the final stage of love, the self identity is completely lost. Here the existence of lover depends on the existence of beloved. There is no turnaround. The final end of a love story either from both the lover or the boy as he believe he can’t exist without her.
no time or mind frame for a serious discussion today.
742