Azka is so devastated to learn that it was Azlan who paid for her medical education. The truth wasn’t as shocking as Azlan’s sharp and hurting words. Yumna Zaidi kills those scenes. Her hurt, overwhelmed face just breaks your heart a little.

Azlan is being his rudest self. Kanwal, his staff, a poor man on the street, everyone is saying the same thing: that Azlan behaves like he’s a god, maazallah, naql-e-kufr, kufr na bashad.

Azlan’s mother is planning to have him hitched. Of course, Azlan isn’t interested at all, but when do mothers listen? On Azka’s side, Zain comes home to propose a simple nikaah before he would bring his parents. Khadeeja aunty says no, and understandably so. Why would someone give away their daughter like that?

The best scene of this episode was when Azka takes a stand in front of Nusrat Khala and Abid. This was long overdue. But Abid’s annoying track is fall from over.

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Shabana Mukhtar