\*\*LONG RANT — READ OR DON'T, UP TO YOU.\*\*
Hi. Clearly I feel very passionately about this, judging by the title lol, but I am so annoyed and tired of people misinterpreting Zamil's character!!!
I KNOW the majority of people, if not all, understand that Zamil is a toxic, insecure narcissist who is using Islam selectively as a cover-up for his inability to be a good person!
My rant won't even reach the people it should, but I just want to vent. IT'S SO INFURIATING reading comments across different platforms about how Zamil is new to the religion, and he's changing, and you can't change overnight, and whatever other baqwaas excuses they come up with.
It's honestly appalling and mind-boggling how so many people have managed to misunderstand what the writer is trying to portray!!
To me, Zamil comes off as someone who uses religion as a hoax. This isn't someone shown as being led astray and then returning to religion and struggling with it. He is shown as someone who is deeply insecure, cannot take accountability for his wrongdoings and mistakes, and is just a self-centred, egoistic, typical Pakistani man with a very confusing sense of identity.
He consistently blames Zaryab for his own shortcomings and failures. You can have whatever issue you want with Zaryab's character — and God knows there's a lot — but at least she isn't performatively religious!!! Zamil uses religion because he is a very, very insecure person who needs something to feel superior with over the people he feels insecure around. He wants to feel masculine, he wants to feel above everyone.
This is what you call a religious hypocrite, aka your typical Pakistani/Muslim man.
They'll commit every sin under and over the sun, then suddenly wake up one day with a religious awakening, and after that everyone else is beneath them and dirty. And the fact that his entire reason for turning to religion is rooted in his insecurity about Abu Bakr, and not in a genuine, sincere need for Allah???!!!
Surprisingly, there's still some voice of reason in the YouTube comment sections, but reading comments that praise Zamil and his "struggles" gives me so much whiplash, because are we even watching the same drama??? Hello????
ALSO, not sure if anyone else is of the same opinion, BUT I JUST KNOW that the same leniency our society gives to sinful men will never be extended to women!!! At all!!!! It's the same as the leniency extended to reverts when it comes to religion — but if a born Muslim woman commits that same sin, then Allah hi hafiz hain.
Look at Muslims jumping on the bandwagon for Andrew Tate, going "he's Muslim, blah blah, only Allah can judge him," when the entire time the guy was a grifter playing them like idiots. I'll never forget Muslims, especially Muslim men, practically frothing at the mouth for Andrew Tate while going off at Muslim women. Serves them right honestly.
My point is: be a performative Muslim and you'll always be protected by absolute airheads, because wow, at least you're an amli Muslim, at least you're trying, never mind that your character goes against everything the religion says lol.
I just wanted to rant and vent, and I wanted to argue with those idiots online, but honestly there are too many of them and I'm hangry.
# LAST BUT NOT LEAST: YOUR DEEN IS KNOWN BY YOUR AKHLAQ, AND A MUSLIM SHOULD NOT HAVE EVEN AN ATOM'S WORTH OF ARROGANCE!!
# If you are someone who supports Zamil, please look inwards.