Aseeb

An account of pure imagination by M A Raahat, Shahaab meets his grandmother lying in coma, taking her hand in his he sees a diamond ring that was not there before, it was the one he had managed to grab when some mysterious pair of hands had tried to stifle him to silence from retelling of the happenings in the house, he goes to meet the doctor , who believes through reading and reciting names of allah and quran hakim can give him peace of mind if he is confused , there may be other invisible creatures of almighty creator harmless or they would have by now destroyed shahaab, at night while sleeping he feels the murshid is instructing him to look for two holy sacred threads in the pile of books on the cupboard , and if murshid is gone shahaab should take them and burn them after twilight, in the morning his driver friend makes tea and looks rather pulled down for he had dreamt the murshid was calling him, they both drive up to the murshid"s place together to find him dead, there was a pile of books on the cupboard, and in the middle of them all were the sacred threads