Umera Ahmad’s ‘Pir-e-Kamil’ or ‘The Perfect Mentor’ is a Pakistan-based novel about a girl who falls in love with a man of a different caste and somehow successfully manages to marry the man with a high IQ level, just so her family would stop forcing her to marry a man of their choice.
First of all, the trials that the girl faces made me believe that hope and patience was everything. Thus, destiny always gives us what we deserve best. It made me patient in letting things go that didn’t work out or people who didn’t want to stay, with an open heart. Hence, love meant freedom.
This story had a spiritual effect on me, too. It made me strongly realise that it was not our money, wealth, bank statements, pride or our hired full-time guards; it was rather the kindness, respect, dignity and loyalty in our deeds that were useful in our lone times so that we could request or beg the Almighty for mercy. It made my belief stronger in this that, “what goes around, comes around”. And “every step to kindness is a step towards loyalty”.
It still lives in my heart as it touched me so achingly. It was the beauty of the words that made the story so unforgettable. It made the road easier to pass and recognise love as an eternal gift of the Almighty that was never selfish, but like a free bird that has open wings and flew with freedom.
— The reader is based in Dubai.
