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**Writer Name:** Ayesha Binte Mehmood
**Post Title:** The Shattering of Idols in the City of Self
The human heart is a strange vessel that carries oceans of desires and mountains of arrogance within its fragile walls. We spend our entire lives building structures of sand and we label them as castles of gold. We worship the reflection in the mirror and we forget the One who created the glass and the light and the eyes that see. This story is not just a tale of love or loss or betrayal. It is a spiritual autopsy of the human soul. It is a journey from the worship of the created to the worship of the Creator. It is the story of Falak Sher Afghan who thought she was a goddess until life taught her that she was merely dust. This narrative explores the dark and twisting alleys of the metropolis of the ego which is known as Shehr e Zaat in the language of mystics and poets.
Falak was a woman of immense beauty and immense pride. She was an artist who sculpted faces out of mud and she breathed her own vanity into them. She lived in a world where everything was perfect and everything was within her reach. Her life was a vibrant canvas of colors where she painted her own destiny with strokes of entitlement. She believed that disappointment was a disease that only afflicted the poor or the ugly or the weak. She was none of those things. She was Falak. The sky. The limit. But the sky often forgets that it has no pillars to hold it up and it only stays aloft by the will of the Divine. Falak fell in love with Salman Ansar. He was the male reflection of her own self. He was wealthy and handsome and detached. He was the idol she wanted to possess. She did not want his soul. She wanted his attention because his attention would validate her existence. She pursued him with the ferocity of a hunter and the desperation of a beggar disguised as a queen. She married him and she thought she had won the ultimate prize. She thought she had conquered the universe.
But the universe has a way of humbling those who walk with their noses too high in the air. The tragedy of Falak was not that she loved Salman. Her tragedy was that she made him her god. She placed a mortal man on the throne that belonged to Allah. And when you place a human on a divine pedestal they are bound to disappoint you because they are flawed and they are finite. Salman was a narcissist. He loved himself more than he could ever love Falak. He was a mirror that showed Falak her own ugliness. The cracks in their marriage appeared
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