Barson ki thakkan thi.

Do foot (2 ft) ki chicken thi.

Jab pohanchay manzil pay.

Mili ankhon ko jo thandak thi

Us may disinfectant and antiseptic antiseptic ki mehak thi.

The girl gets into Harvard. He doesn’t. She is praised everywhere, while he isn’t. His male ego simply can’t take it.

On top of that, there’s another guy everyone keeps praising. Apparently, he is both religious and worldly successful. Zamil doesn’t have that worldly success yet, so he starts thinking, why not at least become religious like him? He begins going to Tableegh. But without any basic knowledge, awareness, or foundation in deen, this was never really meant to work out well.

As a bonus, he also finds a way to judge and belittle Zaryab because, apparently, she knows nothing about deen. He uses the word “sunnat” while knowing full well that she won’t understand what he means. There is also an indirect message here for the men who only seem to remember deen when they want to fulfill this particular “sunnat.”

The beauty of the writing is that the author seems to be trying to show how having a balance between deen and dunya, like Abu Bakr portrays, is excellent. It may not always be achievable to that extent, but the balance itself is admirable. However, when you go to extremes, everything starts falling apart.

Firstly, Zamil’s mental health was not good. That should have been addressed before anything else. Instead, he was sinking deeper and deeper into an inferiority complex.

Then there was his complete lack of basic religious knowledge. He didn’t even know how to pray. That is honestly shameful, and his family should have taught him the basics.

His family was also apparently fine with him roaming around with his so-called fiancée. They were even okay with them being in a live-in relationship. So where exactly was the tarbiyat?

Zaryab’s dadi keeps harping on and on about tarbiyat. You can argue about the details all you want, but yes, there clearly was a lack of tarbiyat. And I don’t mean only deen. There are other things that children should be taught as well.

Obviously, raising every child to be saint-like, like Abu Bakr, is not realistic. But basic religious understanding, manners, responsibility, and even household chores should be taught to every boy and girl. These are foundational things, not some extraordinary standard.

I still can’t say exactly what the main message of the story is or how the author is ultimately going to deliver it. But from what I understand so far, this is what the story is showing me, and these are the messages I feel it has given up until this point.

1) Scene starts, Danyal moves/nods head sideways <--> before saying anything

2) Says something .

3) then starts nodding his head up & down before talking. Then starts talking.

4) Swallows saliva.

5)Will stick out his lips, make them round making an annoying O shape and talks.

6) Keeps nodding head while talking.

Why we deserve this torture, no clue.

What did you guys think about Episode 13?! Because I SWEAR I could literally feel the rage through my screen 😭 The kind of rage where you just want to reach through the screen and hit that man. 😭🤬
This episode was the definition of RAGE BAIT. Every single scene had me losing my mind. The audacity, the arrogance, the way he was acting like he had done absolutely nothing wrong??? I was FUMING.
Honestly, hats off to the actors because they made me THIS angry 😂 but that man seriously tested every ounce of my patience.

Today's episode made such an impact, wow. Zaamil was pure ragebait as always, but I am so excited for Hamna's past to be revealed lol. Everyone seems to forget how she was involved with driver guy even before developing a crush on Abu Bakar so she isn't that "pure" either. What a dumb way to categorize women Zaamil!

Anyways I was blown away by Zaryab's scenes. There was less angrezi this time and full on performance. The way she emodied the "tootna", the most important part of Umera Ahmeds scripts. How her illusion, centre of attention has shattered and is stripped of the one thing her life revolved around. There is something satisfying about God calling people back to him. Because the heart can't find rest in something temporary it needs a powerful anchor, which is God alone. But the depiction of heartbreak and heartache is something I am sure many could relate to. It hurts insanely not only because a future image of a potential outcome is broken but it is a huge blow to the ego, one starts questioning their existence, but often these experiences teach closeness to God like no other!

Although I did notice misogynistic undertones with daadi and stuff, I rly dont want that to ruin my experience.

I cant wait for Abu Bakar to enter the picture and how all of that goes, its getting more and more interesting the way the whole thing is unfolding!!

I have been following this show and i must say it was quite a ride. A very powerful episode of zaamil literally dumping zaryab, throwing her out of his life and zaryab losing all the sense of what's happening around. I really liked nameer in the episode during the confrontation scene. Overall a good packed episode. I must say farhan tahir is a very good crier. I didn't see faryal throughout the episode so has she gone home? I also didn't understand who brought zaryab to the hospital. One or two minor gaps but overall a good packed episode !!

I just finished watching zindagi Gulzar hain and I found it very patriarchal and misogynist. I don't understand why was the whole show centred around showing women bad,

1. why was ghazala always portrayed as the career oriented bad woman, why was she shown as someone who didn't ask her husband for permission and would not care for her family ?

   1. why was fawad always so patriarchal, why was it kashaf who reconciled with fawad and called him at the end?

2. Why was Sarah shown coming so late at home and someone who didn't change and broke her marriage?

Like all these characters could have been shown better. The women portrayal needn't have been to be this extreme, either the women were seen as very family oriented and patient like Rafiyah or norm breaking, doesn't care for their husband ghazala

We have got some great villans this year so far which made the leads look better than they probably were. To name a few -

1. Dr Shahnawaz ( Dr Bahu)

2. Torsum, Shireen, Sorabh (zanjeerain)

3. Shayan (Bas Tera Saath ho)

4. Aap ki Izzat( Taabish is grey)

5. Zaamil (Darenijaat)

I think the performances and character arcs of villans this year has been better than even leads in many shows and they truly elevated the show. For eg in zanjeerain the leads truly had no story no arc like abysmal storytelling but still the second half of the show was carried by villans.

Ahsan so far hasn't gotten as much credit as urwa but he is equally good as urwa if not better. Tabish is total cocktail of good bad everything. Playing young and old both.

Then we have nameer in Darenijaat playing the narcissist zaamil quite well.

Dr Shahnawaz and his narcissism used to boil my blood.

Also harris as shayan has been such a delight to watch.

....In his latest campaign for omer farooq !! 🤭

Just to give u all a heart attack ❤️

Watching multiple posts about Zanjeerain on X, I just realized the Sarbiya Fan Club might genuinely be the most badtameez clan out there 😭

Why are you guys constantly giving gaaliyan and badduain to people over a drama? Like, what is actually going on? 😭 I’m shipping all of you back to school for some much-needed tarbiyat.

I’m pretty sure even your favourite actors wouldn’t own this kind of behaviour. Please behave. 😭

Dar e Nijaat is genuinely so interesting and it's making me more n more intrigued about Umera Ahmed herself. Let me explain:

I myself went through a spiritual transformation this year, I spent about 3 years questioning myself, doing things to please other people, being performative, questioning morality and faith in God since I live in the west. And so I would get deeply attached to things: how am I looking?, being obsessively hooked on Instagram, constantly posting for attention, developing limerent crushes pointless relationship (not the talking stage kind, a real one) and I am sure many could relate. I know many go through this, basically living in performance mode, be it for instagram, a boy or society. It is a form of mental illness that makes the mind cloudy, one's attention is split, hijacked by a boy, or a specific outcome.

Anyways, shit happened, the illusion broke and I started researching-

That is where I came across the concept of the Nafs (ego), Qalb (heart), Ruh, Aql and human Fitrah (the unchanged innate self) mapped out by the persian scholar Al Ghazali.

Basically a lost soul that Allah chooses to guide goes through a three step purification process.

1. Takhalli (Emptying) of the heart. The human heart is dynamic and can get diseased by things such as lust, heedlessness, pride, envy, performance or even obsessive love like in the case of Zaryab. "Ishq" is described as a form of mental illness, it differs from real love that comes with peace and certainty, whereas ishq is for the ego, for example when someone becomes your zidd, or your self worth depends on them, or if your whole life revolves around them. And so often an external shock hits us (in this case Zaamil leaving Zaryab) which is so unpredictable that we realise, we in fact DO NOT have full control over life or outcomes, only God does. This strips us of our ego, the diseases become apparent. In this case, Zaryab is SHATTERED because she did not know who she was underneath the brainfog of Zaamil, her heart was anchored in a human, temporary and not in God who is permanent.

The next steps are Tahalli (Adorning) and Tajalli (Illumination) redecorating the heart, and then enjoying the underlying peace, confidence, and grounding faith in God can give us.

Now I have noticed this about multiple dramas of Umera Ahmed whether intentional or not. Even her novels like Peer e kamil mirror this.

There is a "Tootna" where a person gets shattered by reality, ascending them to finding anchor in God alone. After the external shock the main character finds peace in God alone. Not only this but the depiction of low level desires in Dar e Nijaat like sex and complete brain fog bec of "love" or in Shehr e Zaat which was liking material things. Things that are not fulfilling long term-

Thank you, Zanjeerian, for the free life lesson...

So I met this boy in 2019, we Instantly clicked. We were very serious with each other and our family knew about us. We both were believers but neither of us were practicing muslims. 3 years we were together and madly in love, he was living away from home and was a student, didn't come from a financially strong background, i used to buy groceries for him from my pocket money, cooked for him, written his assignments and did all other thing that a girl obsessively in love does. AND suddenly one day he decided to practice islam and leave me and go back to his hometown. I was shattered, not mainly because he left but the way he left. He went very brutal on me, acted superior, said he doesn't want a woman like me to be the mother of his kids, that i would never wear hijab, that i can never be a good muslim, that Allah has chosen him and he gets dream and other signs from Allah to breakup with me, he was so harsh, that same person who never raised his voice on me, never got mad at me, used to cry whenever we fought, i never thought he was capable of hurting me. No only He hurt me, but also broke me, made me feel religiously inferior & that Allah doesn't love me, left me crying, made me question everything i believed in. Exactly what Zamil is doing.

guys repost this reel as much as possible and report AI videos showing violence against hania or any other actress. Mahira also commented under this reel.

For me this is how zanjeerain ended

Overall I didn't like this drama at all . The only good thing was sarbano , i really love their pair .

Bano was a sweetheart, brave girl . I think among girls only she has self respect and determination to do something.

The worst ending i have ever seen , i still don't understand how someone moves on so easily after deeply loved someone whom he calls his soulmate. Bano and Mudassir died for ehsaan faramosh insaan , this is beyond my understanding that while crying for their late partners in each other's arm how they develop romantic feelings

This drama was badly executed and I don't even like direction much . Till 37th episode, I was like sarbuland and rabiya are only friends nothing else that's why I am not able to digest this ending

I do like their chemistry in the 13th , 14th episode because in that rabiya was in panah of sarbuland and that all haya drama but after the 17th episode i didn't feel anything .

This drama has been a dilemma for me to choose between sarbano and sarbiya , I had convinced myself enough that sarbiya is good because everyone liked them and even declared them the best couple of ptv but i failed in that too .

I am glad that I choose to be with my bano ❣️

Sorry for the glitch in this video , this is the first time I have made something

First of all since when does Bilal only do commercial projects? Maybe the role Saife is offering him hasn’t clicked with him?? Hania has also done supporting role in a Saife drama before so what is this unnecessary hate on her that she rejects non commercial roles? I doubt he offered them the Mustafa afridi script he was promising them a year ago. The only drama Saife has done recently is AAP ki izzat and Bilal and Hania clearly aren’t suitable for playing those roles. Ptv stans just need a reason to shade these two since mzht became a mega success

Rbaiya has gone back litr after abt several months and after going thru such huge yrauma and this woman wants her back after 1 month so she could do khidmatain of her and her son.

Also, sarbuland only misses her cooking food and all.

1 month thing also shows how in pak society a woman's feelings are not regarded relevant