Dark Waters

It is Shab-e-qadar—a night devoted to worship and prayer. A precious time to seek atonement for one’s sins. A time when the portals of heaven are open and when one night’s prayer is equal to four hundred years of worship. It would be a sin even to speculate on how Choti Phoophi managed to assemble all this paraphernalia for the Fateha when her resources were so meagre even to arrange two meals a day. I thought the Almighty who looks after the whole world had not forgotten the Phoophi in her hour of need and had provided her the means to observe the rites with proper dignity. (From the blog of Avishek Avtans- https://avtans.com/2018/02/20/dark-waters-by-gulsher-khan-shani/)