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I didn’t do this book justice with such a short review
yes u do najma!!! i still think about it since last year
Respectfully, this book is terrible. The Prophet was commanded to give dawah with hikmah and there wasn't any wisdom behind this book. This book has the depth of a christian fundamentalist feel good romance. It completely turned me away from reading any book in this genre ever again. It felt like halal fanfiction.
The characters are one dimensional. They are created for function over feeling. Salaar supposedly has an Iq of 150 and yet the author makes no attempt to delineate his intellect nor his flaws. His philosophy is a very crude straw man. He is more caricature than character. Imama isn't much different. We don't see her exact refutations of the Ahmadiyah. The author clearly didn't bother to research at much length.
The plot is so dumb it's comical. She tries to scare her neighbour with a gun knowing he is suicidal? Are we being serious? She prefers to involve a dangerously close witness, who probably has home security to act as additional witnesses, rather than a random rickshaw outside her university or something of the sort. Reverts escape their families all the time with such careful execution but Imama?
The whole he is afraid of hell thing could have been executed soooooo beautifully too but it wasn't. We never really get an analysis of the fear with respect to his belief. Atheists fear hell the way virgin teenage girls fear they might be pregnant when their period is late. We only get these quasi-logical assertions to Salaar fears instead of tangible, visceral fear. But imo the worst part is the good girl-bad guy turned good trope. So many girls in this country are told to overlook the questionable pasts of potential partners in the name of change. Women are forced to forgive men who would never forgive them due to patriarchal structure. If the author really wanted to sell forgiveness and a belief in the human ability to change, Imama should have been the reformed hedonist. Speaking of said human ability to change, none of them make any mistakes post reversion??? Salaar automatically loses his character flaws?? That kind of thing doesn't happen overnight. Also the weird wudu obsession thing was so cringe, I'm sorry what was that about.
I read this as a teenager. I have terrible memory but I still remember it simply because of how badly it turned me off lol
Forget all of that, I remembered this book barely has a page dedicated to the Prophet himself which this book is titled over
not u putting it in the i-could-marry-these section BWAHAH
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yes u do najma!!! i still think about it since last year
Respectfully, this book is terrible. The Prophet was commanded to give dawah with hikmah and there wasn't any wisdom behind this book. This book has the depth of a christian fundamentalist feel good romance. It completely turned me away from reading any book in this genre ever again. It felt like halal fanfiction.
The characters are one dimensional. They are created for function over feeling. Salaar supposedly has an Iq of 150 and yet the author makes no attempt to delineate his intellect nor his flaws. His philosophy is a very crude straw man. He is more caricature than character. Imama isn't much different. We don't see her exact refutations of the Ahmadiyah. The author clearly didn't bother to research at much length.The plot is so dumb it's comical. She tries to scare her neighbour with a gun knowing he is suicidal? Are we being serious? She prefers to involve a dangerously close witness, who probably has home security to act as additional witnesses, rather than a random rickshaw outside her university or something of the sort. Reverts escape their families all the time with such careful execution but Imama?
The whole he is afraid of hell thing could have been executed soooooo beautifully too but it wasn't. We never really get an analysis of the fear with respect to his belief. Atheists fear hell the way virgin teenage girls fear they might be pregnant when their period is late. We only get these quasi-logical assertions to Salaar fears instead of tangible, visceral fear. But imo the worst part is the good girl-bad guy turned good trope. So many girls in this country are told to overlook the questionable pasts of potential partners in the name of change. Women are forced to forgive men who would never forgive them due to patriarchal structure. If the author really wanted to sell forgiveness and a belief in the human ability to change, Imama should have been the reformed hedonist. Speaking of said human ability to change, none of them make any mistakes post reversion??? Salaar automatically loses his character flaws?? That kind of thing doesn't happen overnight. Also the weird wudu obsession thing was so cringe, I'm sorry what was that about.
I read this as a teenager. I have terrible memory but I still remember it simply because of how badly it turned me off lol
Forget all of that, I remembered this book barely has a page dedicated to the Prophet himself which this book is titled over
not u putting it in the i-could-marry-these section BWAHAH
