Analysis of The Novel "Iman Umeed Aur Mohabbat" Written by Umaira Ahmad

Introduction:After reading Jannat Key Patty, I have read a novel which covered many genres. The title of the novel is “Iman Umeed Aur Mohabbat” written by a well-known Pakistani writer Umaira Ahmad. Iman Umeed Aur Mohabbat was published in monthly Digest in December 1999.

About the author: Umaira Ahmed is a well-known writer who wrote several famous novels in monthly Shuaa Digest, Khwateen Digest, and Kiran Digest. She is famous in females because of her distinctive literary genre. She is best known as an Urdu writer and Drama scriptwriter. Social evils, psychological problems with an attribute and spirituality are the most characteristics of her writing.

Main Theme: Iman Umeed Aur Mohabbat is a beautifully written story on three major problems with human life. Faith, Hope, and Love. It is a story of a born-Muslim girl who preferred her faith over her love but later always thought whether she did the right thing. It’s additionally a story about a new Muslim who influenced by Islam, accepts Islam and firmly opted for Iman over his love with no feeling of loss.

Plot of the novel:The plot of this novel is based on a moral. It tells its readers about how true Muslim face difficulties in their lives and how he sacrifice for the sake of their faith. It tells its readers how humans get rewarded for their good deeds but, don’t usually the blessings in disguise. Iman, Umeed Aur Mohabbat teaches everyone, a lesson, not to trade your faith for love always stick to belief and faith. The simplicity of this plot enhances the beauty of various emotions and feelings like grief and joy, love and lust, faith and disbelief.

Characters:

• Umeed
• Jahanzeb
• Daniel Edgar (Iman)

Description of Characters: Each main character in the story has multidimensional shades.Umeed is the main character who is firm in her belief, patience, and self-sacrifice. Through this character, Umera Ahmed shows how true Muslim face difficulties in their life and how he sacrifice for the sake of their faith.

Daniel Edgar (Iman) is a foreigner and a new Muslim who opted his Iman over his love with no feeling of loss and he is a magnanimous character. Through this character, Umera Ahmed shows us how a new Muslim stick to their religion and sacrifice everything for his religion. Jhanzeb is another character of the novel. He is the fiancé of Umeed. He also the first love of Umeed.

Setting: The life of Umeed and Iman is written in the social context of Muslim country. Events took place with Umeed, Iman is Pakistani and also in German context and setting.

Main events: The important events of the novel include:

• Death of Umeed’s father
• The breakup of Umeed with Jahanzeb
• Wedding of Umeed with Iman
• Iman’s embracing of Islam

Suspense: Umera Ahmad builds up the suspense in the middle of the novel. As she states in these lines of the novel: After Iman’s embracing Islam, Umeed comes to know that he did change his name and his religion and Umeed collect many pieces evidence against Iman in his absence. And the all the pieces evidence show that Denial Edger remains Denial.

Summary of the Novel: It is a beautiful story of a modest girl who did not trade her faith for love and dared to resist the strongest temptation ever. The story of Umeed’s situation is wonderful, hence affects the reader’s heart softly. Each main character in the story has complex shades.

Perfect soul- mate transforms into the devil’s adviser quite unpredictably. The devoted selfless daughter comes across as an unkind spouse, who has been a captive of her bitter past. It’s strange how humans get rewarded for his or her nice deeds but don’t typically realize the blessings in disguise. Umeed lost her father when she was 18 years old and had to leave her education too early to look after her family. She is engaged to Jahanzeb who has been very supportive and has taken care of her in good and bad times. Umeed is completely in love and emotionally dependent on Jahanzeb. Umeed’s life undergoes a harsh change when a few days before their marriage, Jhanazeb warns to break their engagement after the controversy between them.

The ultimate breakup with Jahanzeb serves as an intense loss in her life. While Umeed is heartbroken and deprived of any hope, Daniel Edgar a foreigner enters Umeed’s life as a gift of God encounter a similar fate. Daniel Edgar is already influenced by Islam and after further research, accepts Islam. After constant persuasion from Umeed’s family, Umeed marries Daniel, who is now Iman. Despite Iman’s untiring efforts to please Umeed, Umeed’s past keeps haunting her and Umeed is unable to live a happy regret-free life. Daniel’s selfless love strikes a chord in Umeed’s heart at last and Umeed tries to get rid of Umeed’s misery only to confront the biggest trial of their life which ultimately changes everything.

Conclusion: After reading this novel, I conclude that Iman Umeed Aur Mohabbat shows the true picture of negative thinking and premature behavior on that point when we think everything is not going well as we wish and demand. This novel is gripping and teaches me a lot about true love, faith, and hope. Through this fantastic Urdu fiction story, the writer gives the picture of life and world with a different angle.