Sindh Madressatul Islam University (SMIU)

DUA HAMZA, BEG-20S-012

SAJID KAKAR, BEG-20S-019
 Sacrifice for Love

This is story of a boy from a middle class, religious family with a very sweet,
sarcastic voice. His father was a religious scholar while his mother was a cultural
woman who kept her religion as well as her traditions. The marriage of the boy's
parents was arranged, so quarrels etc. had started from the beginning of the
marriage and this process was still going on. Latif spent the early years of his life
with his parents and due to lack of interest in education, he could only study up to
the fifth grade and moved in with his uncles. His uncle was a good businessmen
and was friendly in nature. His uncle had an only daughter named Amina and the
family was not having any son so this wish was fulfilled by latif At the age of
twelve, Latif joined his uncle's family where he had all kinds of comforts and
started living a good life when compared with the life he was spending at an early
age.

After spending two years at his uncle's house, he was entered at the stage of
puberty and began to realize that I was losing my boyhood. Thus, over time, he
began to feel that what he had been hearing about love and what had happened
to him. However, along with certain limit of time he fell in love with his uncle's
daughter.
This one sided relationship was processed further with his cousins interest, she
was fallen in love with Latif. The love affair lasted for six years, and both Amina's
family and Latif's family began to realize that they loved each other. their families
were made aware of this and they both wanted to talk about it with their families
so their love can take the form of a husband wife relationship. Latif and Amina
talked to their families and the result was that Latif's family agreed and Amina's
family refused. Latif, who was completely in love with Amina, was shocked. When
he tried to find out the reason for his refusal, he was told that he is illiterate and
did not own any property.

Latif offered to make it all possible in the future, but Amina said her parents do
not trust Latif. In the end, Amina was married with someone else and latif decided
to stay single because the only girl with whom he wanted to get married was
Amina as she was married so latif decided to focus on his career. However, after
few days Amina's marriage was ended as it was forced marriage. Latif did not
gave up. He used to remember Amina and keep crying and finally when the pain
became unbearable, Latif became addicted to drugs.

As Amina is a widow now and mother of two children. She was going through a
lot of trauma at that time that now as she has lost her husband too, what will she
do now? Will Latif adopt her now? Latif was still unmarried and Amina's family
tried to talk to Latif, but Latif agreed to the marriage and so Latif married Amina
and told the world that love is beyond material things and if your love is intense
and pure, it can be successful at anytime under any circumstances.