Thoughts from 3rd May 2026 while coming home at 1 am in morning from Dark Karachi roads in lock downs

Last few days have been readily tough on me, not because of anything else but because my own family have been treating me as an insult, humiliated and afterwards showing me as if they are my well wishers, and on the contrary they have been promoting me as if it is my anger, whereas I am responding because my dignity and respect is at stake, because I am not going to withstand this insult, because killing my dignity from my own wife just in order to "win me", is never going to happen till I am alive, I don't know about their shamelessness but I don't know what they will do with my dead body but till I am alive I won't surrender, 

Yesterday

It happened that I have a problem that sudden sit or stand isn't comfortable for me, it hurts, and I am compromising on my condition because I have my son's vaccination which is more important, but instead my own mother body-shamed me although she knows what problem I have been going through, Madiha learning the same from her, and now my own parents, who are supposed to be those individuals who safeguard my self-respect, are behaving as scavenger, they are not willing to understand that not everything could be done in the nick of time, I am thinking with respect to my limitations and both of my parents have been ridiculing me off my limitations, but I am just quiet because I have hopes Allah is watching.

InDrive taught me lesson to think about myself

And not only myself but also self-respect and esteem, which is ridiculed and humiliated by my own parents in front of my wife, I don't require foes when I have my parents in front of them, whatever favors they are giving me, recovering from me completely by this mean or another, but not sparing me, and they are supposedly told to respected, these are the kind of individuals who Allah said love unconditional? Where they placed a condition that I should compromise in front of them, only then they will create respect for me.

— Murtaza Moiz Farooqui The Real Murtaza

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