Blasphemy Quotes

“To me, my husband was my son’s murderer. He was also my daughter’s molester. A parasite nibbling on the Holy Book, he was Lucifer, holding me by the throat and driving me to sin every night. He was Bhai’s destroyer, Amma Sain’s tormentor, Ma’s humbler and the people’s exploiter. He was the rapist of orphans and the fiend that fed on the weak. But over and above all this, he was known to be the man closest to Allah, the one who could reach Him and save us.”
― Tehmina Durrani, Blasphemy

“Pir Sain was a symbol of munafiqat.
I was a soldier.
This was a jehad.”
― Tehmina Durrani, Blasphemy

“...my mind was consumed with the idea of purdah. From behind it no call for help could be heard. An abandoned species was trapped in a forbidden world. Everything corrupt happened under the shroud, when it was off a faceless and nameless woman appeared.”
― Tehmina Durrani, Blasphemy

“Love's absence ailed me. I could not imagine loving my husband. He was a superior and I did not know how to love and be subservient together. Nor had he ever thought of me as a human being, let alone a woman. For no reason had he ever softened towards me, I had stirred him that little.”
― Tehmina Durrani, Blasphemy

“As Yazid, the tyrant of Karbala, never suffered even from a headache, people believed that he was blessed by Allah. But that was a misinterpretation. In reality, Allah had abandoned him completely. He wanted nothing to do with him.”
― Tehmina Durrani, Blasphemy

“Pleasing and appeasing our master and God at the same time was impossible.”
― Tehmina Durrani, Blasphemy: A Novel