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Saba: At times I cannot believe my good fortune..
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How is it that you became mine?
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I did not say my prayers regularly like you.
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But I began to pray for your well-being.
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And God gave you so easily to me.
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As if He had made us for each other.
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Saba: If dreams were removed from life...
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what would be left?
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Arfeen: Dreams can be painful
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Saba: So can be reality.
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Adil: Why do you have to be so angry, Saba?
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I have just torn two leaves, not a whole plant!
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Arfeen's mother: Is she the only girl in the family
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suitable to be your wife?
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Arfeen: If I do not marry Saba, I won' t marry at all.
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Arfeen's father: Son, you don't make a snake sleep with yourself
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even if it is tamed.
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Arfeen: Don't you trust me?
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Saba: Is there relation of trust between us?
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Arfeen: That is what I have come here for..
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You will run away if I confess my love.
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Adil: So strange! Your parents kept telling everyone
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in the family not to marry Saba and you....?
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Arfeen: Whom did they stop from proposing to Saba?
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Adil: What if I said it was me?
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Arfeen: If you found your wife cheating on you.....
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would you forgive her?
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Shuja: I would, if she regrets it.
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Arfeen: I never would, even if she regrets it.
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Shuja: And what if Saba does it? You practically worship her.
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Then?
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Arfeen: Before assuming this you must assume that the sun rises from the West,
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rain comes from the ground and stars shine on trees.
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Arfeen's mother: Look at your children's shameful ways.
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Arfeen: Saba could never do such a thing. I trust her blindly.
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Adil: Aunt, are you in your senses? What are you saying?
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Arfeen's mother: My son trusted you like a brother
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and you stabbed him in the back! How can I be silent?
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God! Where are the men of the house?
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Let them come to punish these adulterers.
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Arfeen's father: Leave me!
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Your daughter destroyed my son's life! I will not let her live!
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I will kill her!
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Saba: I did not do anything, uncle!
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Arfeen's father: You did not!
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Saba: Uncle, please listen to me.
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Don't do this!
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Adil's mother: Run away!
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Adil: Why should I?
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Adil's mother: For my sake, run away!
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Saba's mother: Tell her to get away from my sight!
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She is dead for us.
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Arfeen: Saba could never do such a thing!
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Arfeen's father: You are still blinded by her so-called love!
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Arfeen's mother: Would your mother lie, son?
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Arfeen: Just provide proof that you are innocent..
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and my mother sent you to that room with Adil.
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Saba: I do not have any proof
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...but I have not committed this sin.
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Arfeeen: There must be someone who
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knows about your innocence.
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Saba: God does!
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Arfeen: How do I ask God? I am not a Prophet!
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Saba: All I can say is that I am innocent...
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Your mother has falsely accused me.
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Arfeen: My mother is steadfast in prayer, people come to her for blessings.
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How could she commit such a sin?
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Saba: Neither am I religious, nor do I pray five times a day,
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but I have not committed this sin.
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Arfeen: You want me to ask God. I will.
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I will bring the Holy Quran.
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You must put your hand on it and swear that you are innocent.
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Saba: If it is the Quran which has to make the decision,..
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then your mother must swear on it too.
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Tell her to swear that she did not send Adil and me to that room.
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And if she does not swear, let her be taken to the courtyard
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and be beaten brutally like I was.
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Arfeen's mother: I swear on the Holy Quran that I did not
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send Adil and Saba to that room.
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They went there of their own will.
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Arfeen: You won't swear?
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Arfeen: I, Arfeen Abbas, in my conscious state and senses
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divorce Saba Kareem.
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Adil: Just listen to me once!
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Saba's mother: What purpose will it serve? Everything is destroyed!
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Arfeen: What is left for me here?
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Saba's mother: I am sending with you all the things
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that I had collected for your wedding.
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Saba: I do not want anything from here.
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Give everything away in charity as you have done with me!
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Saba's mother: That man is not worthy of her.
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My beautiful daughter, I took care of her so carefully my whole life.
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How will she live with that old man?
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Saba's husband: With whom did you have an affair?
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Your uncle told me that you were caught red-handed with someone.
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That is why his son divorced you.
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Get one thing straight!
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Do not even think of repeating your sinful ways in my house!!
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Arfeen: If a man who has fallen in love once is asked whether
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he misses his lover and he says no, he is
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the biggest liar of the world.
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Arfeen: I am liberal, I am.
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But in our society, divorce is still seen as a punishment, not freedom.
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Maroosh: So did you divorce Saba to punish her?
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Saba's husband: Woman, if you miss your lover so much,
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go to him, sleep with him!
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You are not the kind of woman who would raise a family.
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Arfeen's mother: It is happening because of her.
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Don't you see it? I can see the fire.
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No, this fire will consume me. It will consume me.
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Shuja: I do not consider that man a true man
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who is unable to forgive a woman's mistakes.
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Arfeen: And if the mistake is a sin?
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Shuja: So what? God forgives sins as well as mistakes.
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Saba's husband: What are you looking at?
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Saba: My fortune.
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Saba's husband: Is there any in your palm?
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Saba: That is the point. I do not have a fortune.
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Arfeen's father: Tell him that if he married a girl outside family
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he will not be allowed in this house.
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Maroosh: But you married Saba of your own wish
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and your parents did not object to that.
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Arfeen: Because she was from my family.
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Maroosh: I may not be of your family, but I have my own family.