Asya ff In The Shadows Chapter 25a page 94 3/11 - Page 11

The mind in its own place, and in itself

Can make a Heaven of Hell and a Hell of Heaven

A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens. And our opinion of what happens depends entirely upon us.

Action seems to follow feeling but really action and feeling go together.

Never in her life did she think that she will be mowed down by troubles, with her nerves sticking out like wires, curling up at the ends, burning in her own hell, unable to move, unable to speak. Of course har cheez apne asal ki taraf lautati hai.

Who can escape Allah,s wrath? We are not sent down on earth to mess up others lives but to make peace with all human kind. And the one who goes against the Golden Rule has to face the consequences. A tyrant is punished not only in this world but in the world hereafter too.

Flashbacks:-

"RAzia i have decided to leave, if you want the recording meet me in half an hour. Ill come to pick you up. We need to have a talk."

Razia read Tanu's message, the same moment she heard a cars horn.

She glided down the stairs with a pride obvious in body language and a victorious smile on her face. She landed in the passenger seat. Tanu ave her her ever famous wicked smirk.

"What do you want to say?"

"Jaldi kia hai Razia ...patience...patience."

She starts the car. In no time they were zooming on the highway. Tanu presses the accelerator hard. Razia panicks.

"Come on Tanu we are going too fast, slow down." She yelled hysterically.

"Sure... sure." She pretends to apply force on the breaks. And then calmly replies,

"Tsk! The breaks not working.."

"What do you mean the breaks not working?" Razia roared at the top of her voice.

"The same you understand Razia darling." Tanu says amazingly calm.

"You bloody bitch...you cant kill me like that...me tumhe babaad kar dun gi..."

Tanu smirks. "Barbad...arent you already done with that...aur kitna barbaad karo gi hun...ahan Razia its time to pay back... why do you forget we are the same sides of the coin. What you did to me wasn't cut and now what i am gonna do to you will surly be very ugly." She mocks and starts laughing like a maniac.

Tanu then deliberately turns the car in to the forest beside the road. The car bumps up and down the slope. Razia cries and screams like a wild cat but there was no one to help.

"Rest in peace Razia." These were Tanus last words after which her head bumps into the windscreen and she immediately loses consciousness. It becomes hard for Razia to breathe she in a panic tries to unlock the cars door. Her screams increase but the door was jammed, still she somehow manages to open it and jumps out of the moving car. Her head hits a nearby tree and blood rushes inn her eyes. The car still bounced down the slope. A few minutes later she hears a titanic explosion. Fire, fire everywhere, everything caught fire. Something hits the lower part of her body a mammoth sized shriek exits her mouth but before she can perceive anything there is a complete black out.

She opens her eyes in the hospital and starts screaming.

"Help help...somebody please help...ill die...shell kill me...help"

The doctors and nurses rush in. They try controlling her but to no use she screams even louder.

And here she is on the bed for the last two years. Paralytic attack is what doctors suggest.

Instead of recovering her condition becomes tougher and tougher everyday.

Worst of all she cant even speak for herself now. Life for her was lost somewhere, in the deepest, darkest and deadliest tunnel of the world. A ditch which had no end. Each new day is darker and more haunting than the previous.

She sees Farha around her cursing her, she hears a crying baby Zoya, her cries burn her ever more. She was going through hell and no one could help her out. No one.

A few months after her attack, Siddique found out about his long lost daughter, while going through some of Razia's old stuff. His entire world fell apart when all the clues and evidences pointed towards on e direction only. Zoya Farooqi. The same very girl who he had taken to the hospital, lifeless, drenched in blood, just four months back.

Indeed he was being punished for his sins. He could not see his daughter, couldn't talk to her, couldn't ask for forgiveness, couldn't ask for mercy. He felt ashamed of himself for punishing a poor soul for no sin. He didn't even have the courage to walk up to her, to face her to tell her that he is her sinner, he is that ill-fated dad who couldn't be one.

Razia begged for mercy, she begged for forgiveness but no one wanted to see her face again.

With time everyone forgave her all except Siddique. His pain was too much to absorb. for him finding his daughter after 17 years that too in such a condition was a immense shock, a shock too big to overcome so soon.

For Rashid everything fell in place as the truth unfolded but his son even after forgiving him was reluctant to meet him. Asad still avoided him. There were seventeen years between there relationship. Rashid was still in hopes that maybe one day, one day his son might come back to him to forgive him completely.

Siddique didn't tell anyone about Zoya. All he wanted was for her to recover and be in the best of her health before he could beg for forgiveness. Bu fate had some other plans. Unfortunately when Zoya finally recovered he was out of the country on a business trip, that too for a month.

Humera sits beside her mother massaging her shoulders.

Razia desperately tries to say something. Humera's hands stop midway as she tries to outline what her mother was trying to convey.

"Kia keh rai hain ammi?" she asks with welled up eyes.

"zzzooo...zozzz...zzzooo"

RAzia cries, she wails, she weeps but remains unable to pronounce 'ZOYA.'