![]() Peerzada Ghulam Ahmed, better known by his nom-de-plume ‘Mahjoor’, was a renowned Kashmiri poet. Nazre chaaniey seeith, beymaar balaiey keeith Yaar daud krooth pyaum, shuir paan zaaiye gaum If not, each time he tried, cruel love his voice curtailed Mahjoor would tell the tale, of his poor heart’s travail Thou are the wound that bleeds the balm that soothes is thee. Thou art the one that makes me, thou the one that breaks me That arc on thy brow the keenest blade didst outdo With just a brief view, my heart didst thou strike through So why, upon my turn, thou turned away from me? Thine love and its desire hath my youthful years consumedīut a mere glance from thee, hath so many sufferers freed Thine love doth portend my doom thine love hath sapped my bloom Hear how I’m stricken with love how I’ve become its prey Now she must pay the ultimate price and choose between fighting to stay in the only place she's ever called home or losing the life she loves and everyone in it.įrom the author of the "heart-wrenching yet hopeful" (Samira Ahmed) novel, The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali, comes a timely, intimate look at what it means to be an immigrant in America today, and the endurance of hope and faith in the face of hate.Abide, beloved, stay hearken to what I must say As an act of revenge against her for speaking out, Tyler and his friends vandalize Zara's house with racist graffiti, leading to a violent crime that puts Zara's entire future at risk. While dealing with the Islamophobia that she faces at school, Zara has to lay low, trying not to stir up any trouble and jeopardize their family's dependent visa status while they await their green card approval, which has been in process for almost nine years.īut one day her tormentor, star football player Tyler Benson, takes things too far, leaving a threatening note in her locker, and gets suspended. Seventeen-year-old Pakistani immigrant, Zara Hossain, has been leading a fairly typical life in Corpus Christi, Texas, since her family moved there for her father to work as a pediatrician. But it only takes one moment for that dream to come crashing down around them. Summary: "Zara's family has waited years for their visa process to be finalized so that they can officially become US citizens. ![]()
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