The ending lines of Jannat kī Bashārat

I like Jannat kī Bashārat. Its tone is empathetic in nature, but its message derives from that very empathy an emotion which is abhorrent of that very culture. We argued whether the piece is attacking Islam, or Muslim practices, or Muslim culture. There can be no doubt that its intent is not obscure, for one. It is derisive of religion in general. This is what I felt. When the maulana postrates himself before his vision in the last scene, he is clutching the Quran. The author, meanwhile, is more sceptical. It is not a vision but a dream, an allusion to desires feeding themselves. When he wakes up, there is daylight everywhere. The sun is shining in, and his wife is laughing at him. It was just a dream. This is reality, and it is rotten.