Tehmina Durrani

“For Sehra who broke the silence of hypocrisy, that Allah consistently says he hates; in the dictionary meaning of Satan out of…

— Tehmina Durrani

“Sehra, Dont ever lay down and die....for NOTHING at all." ~ Tehmina Durrani”

— Tehmina Durrani

“...my mind was consumed with the idea of purdah. From behind it no call for help could be heard. An abandoned species…

— Tehmina Durrani

“I found an inner strength to fight for myself. It was clear that nobody else would.”

— Tehmina Durrani

I obeyed, but my crime was that I did not look obedient.

— Tehmina Durrani

Love's absence ailed me. I could not imagine loving my husband. He was a superior and I did not know how to…

— Tehmina Durrani

“Pir Sain was a symbol of munafiqat. I was a soldier. This was a jehad.”

— Tehmina Durrani

“As Yazid, the tyrant of Karbala, never suffered even from a headache, people believed that he was blessed by Allah. But that…

— Tehmina Durrani

“The five basic tenets of Islam continue onto the sixth for me. Huquq-ul-Ibaad, or humanitarianism. That it is not proclaimed as obligatory…

— Tehmina Durrani

To me, my husband was my son's murderer. He was also my daughter's molester. A parasite nibbling on the Holy Book, he…

— Tehmina Durrani