Romantic Short Stories

Jhat Pat/Mine in a blink of an eye (Part 11)

Story copyright MehweenGR. Picture credit to its owners.

Thank you for having waited for next update. Going through hard times.

Islam is perfect. Muslims are not. Please differeniate right from wrong as you read.

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Hatim

Who knew uptil few days ago that Ifrah would be staying at my house the last 2 days before her flight. Almost Jhat Pat, the underlying wish of mine since the faithful night at my in-laws house would come true like this. Somewhere along I feel Qudrat was giving me my first reward for not losing control over the events especially not doubting my wife's intention.

(Qudrat= divine power)

The news which had me grinning, smirking and wanting to raise my hand in victory out of the truck window was given to me by none other than the person who is my hero, my ideal, my guiding light, my main school- my father.

I was only 10 kilometres away from reaching Junaid dairy farm in Kadhan, nearly 4 hours drive away, when my father rang to update me on several things alongside breaking what to me was the highlight after many days.

"Hatim, my bacha! As per your wish and discussion with your mother, I did not have a group discussion with Ifrah beti's mehrams".

My father than told me how he and mum discussed for a long time after my discussion with my mum early in the morning. Word by word he narrated me the conversation between them including the pauses, emotions they felt and some light romantic moments they shared, which me and my sister are sort of aware of anyway.

" Husband dearest!" Your mother caught my attention as she lovingly reaches out to close the button on my Qameez. " This morning before Hatim left for work, I spoke with him about group meet up, but he vehemently refusing it for obvious reasons. However after explaining to him from various aspects he finally with hesitation agreed that you meet her father . And I gave him guarantee that his father will handle it well and keep the meeting short but crisp. Will you go today?!" She looked at me with pleading eyes and I nodded.

" One more thing- " she than said and took a sip from my tea cup and handed it over to ME; the man on whom she could always rely on. " Our marriage has always been based on honesty and trust, I also wanted to let you know, that Hatim mentioned about our daughter-in-law is in dire need of a motherly figure and good guidance. Shes mentally and emotionally struggling-" Your mum took a pregnant pause and continued whilst I continued listening to her words attentively.

" After Hatim left for work I prayed long and hard to Allah to give me peace regarding this and I said to Allah, that I will try to be as genuinely as possible to Ifrah despite everything. In return prolong my husband and children (Hatim and Ifrah) life with good health. Ones loved ones lives are so precious, that one needs to make big sacrifices, doing things which pleases Allah in order to increase the chance of the things you wish for them to be granted by Allah.

Anyway, when you talk with Jamshed sahab, tell him that Ifrah is still welcome in this house any time. She can even stay here till her travelling day. I just dont want my Hatim to go there anymore though. She can use Hatim's room whilst he sleeps on sofa in living room. By the way just to take the burden off my heart, I also wanted to confess that I would never carry out the things I mentioned last night about typical mother-in-law acts or encourage my son to do any of that. I just said it in peak of hurt. However overall I do wonder, if anyone were to find out about our approach, wether our approach to the entire scene is realistic or not".

Before I could show my excited response over my wife's possible stay over, papa than told me his reply to my mother adding his signature styles and gestures especially when he is smitten by her. I wonder wether he was doing it by purpose, not letting me show my excitement or wether he actually was in fun mood with me. Nevertheless its undeniable, one of the beauty of my parents marriage is, that they are capable to talk intense things whilst the tender loving moments between them are still intact.