Martyrs of absolute beauty
(A Novel by AHSAN SAILANI)
((حسن ِ مطلق کے شہید )
حسن ِ مطلق کے شہیدوں کا ٹھکانہ ہے جہاں
جانہیں سکتے وہاں لوگ عبادت والے (سیلانی)
(Translation of urdu verse)
Those slaughtered by absolute beauty, where there they make their ultimate
station, orthodoxy can never ever even imagine about it. (saylani).
(A fActitious narrative of man’s thirst for
Happiness and how Is its acquisition
possible?)
DEDICATED to
MY BROTHER MR QUMAR HUSSAIN
Chapter # 1
(John and Abal)
John: we shouldn’t fall in someone’s love. Love always becomes chain for
inner-freedom and brings fatal slavery. Why do we want to make our fine moments
as random dust of sandy region?
Abal: Hmmm … well, you know, love and beauty are fundamental realities of the
nature. How can we deny it so softly?
John: Yeah, I think so too ___________but, my problem in question relevant to
happiness. I want to attain more and more happiness. Really! I’m the worshiper
of happiness.
Abal: (taking a sip of bear) -------- I think so, beauty and happiness
interrelated. Do you agree?
John: No, I’m not. Why is the World surrounded by sorrows and why are people
committing suicides all over the world? Is there not any beauty of nature or any
human beauty? Why then? I think so, “ happiness exists independently’’ Just need
to be discovered.
Abal: (she shrugged) May be! ………. I’m not a philosopher of (جمالیات)aesthetics .
John: Abal! You should be careless about me. I don’t believe in very typical
emotionality. Being an Aeronautical engineer, I believe in rationality and
happiness instead of so-called passions. We should be realistic, in my opinion,
happiness is objective of life. We must make efforts to attain that real pearl
in our short span of life.
Abal: Attaining the happiness…..through?
John: whatever sources ___________I don’t know more
It was the premises of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where they were
met for a long ago, since then, Abal could never able to manage contact with
John. She was habitual with this kind of loneliness and knew, one-day after
long-wandering he would be come back with lot of laughters and bundle of
apologies. After passing a day full of entertainment, he would say, after all,
‘’ I’m feeling a thirst of happiness and still have a vacuum of something
unknown.
She would often think about John. What is the nature of problem? Is the nature
of problem subjected to Psychotic complexities? But _______ how can it be
possible for such determined and genius person? Oh, no, she would shudder and
try to change the phase of thinking to something else.
She was absolutely beautiful Asian girl, an off-spring of an internationally
renowned industrialist. She had although completely secular and liberal mind-set
by religion, however, she was very active in welfare works and broad minded
about difference of opinion and freedom of thoughts. She was doing his MS in
Mechanical engineering from MIT. John was doing his MS in Aeronautical
Engineering. His father was an iconic figure in the realm of American politics.
John has strange and complex nature. Doubtlessly, he was very hand -some with
beautiful face as mid –night Sun, one of the ones in the University. Most famous
and popular among his colleagues due to his outstanding academic performance and
keen interest in extra-curriculum activities and entertainment . He was
excessive lover of functions, parties , conferences and seminars which gave him
more happiness. But he showed less interest in Abal.
Abal: Why do you not express any passions for me? She asked him, almost, in a
pathetic mood’’.
John: What are you talking about? I don’t want to cheat you.
I want to marry with my cousin Cathleen.
Abal: for what?
John: Simple is that , she is most beautiful and intellectual ,so my life will
become the garden of happiness.
Abal: Ok fine , maintaining her composure, her face became pale with grief , in
a nano-second countless waves of pain appeared on her face and vanished.
She interred the Mechanical department silently
To be continue…….