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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tehmina-durrani/love-s-absence-ailed-me-i-could-not-imagine-loving-my-husband-he-was/)

[Tehmina Durrani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tehmina-durrani/)

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## More by Tehmina Durrani

> [“For Sehra who broke the silence of hypocrisy, that Allah consistently says he hates; in the dictionary meaning of Satan out of 3 –…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tehmina-durrani/for-sehra-who-broke-the-silence-of-hypocrisy-that-allah-consistently/)

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> [“Sehra, Dont ever lay down and die…for NOTHING at all." ~ Tehmina Durrani”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tehmina-durrani/sehra-dont-ever-lay-down-and-die-for-nothing-at-all-tehmina-durrani/)

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> [“...my mind was consumed with the idea of purdah. From behind it no call for help could be heard. An abandoned species was trapped…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tehmina-durrani/my-mind-was-consumed-with-the-idea-of-purdah-from-behind-it-no-call/)

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> [“I found an inner strength to fight for myself. It was clear that nobody else would.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tehmina-durrani/i-found-an-inner-strength-to-fight-for-myself-it-was-clear-that/)

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> [I obeyed, but my crime was that I did not look obedient.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tehmina-durrani/i-obeyed-but-my-crime-was-that-i-did-not-look-obedient/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tehmina-durrani/love-s-absence-ailed-me-i-could-not-imagine-loving-my-husband-he-was/)

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> [“Pir Sain was a symbol of munafiqat. I was a soldier. This was a jehad.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tehmina-durrani/pir-sain-was-a-symbol-of-munafiqat-i-was-a-soldier-this-was-a-jehad/)

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> [“As Yazid, the tyrant of Karbala, never suffered even from a headache, people believed that he was blessed by Allah. But that was a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tehmina-durrani/as-yazid-the-tyrant-of-karbala-never-suffered-even-from-a-headache/)

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> [“The five basic tenets of Islam continue onto the sixth for me. Huquq-ul-Ibaad, or humanitarianism. That it is not proclaimed as obligatory has deeper…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tehmina-durrani/the-five-basic-tenets-of-islam-continue-onto-the-sixth-for-me-huquq/)

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> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tehmina-durrani/to-me-my-husband-was-my-son-s-murderer-he-was-also-my-daughter-s/)

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