Rudar's post

Though most of the stories we’ve read have an emphasis on the importance place upon the beauty and youth of women and its relationship with their sexual worth, I found Jannat Ki Basharat interesting as it turned the tables on that paradigm. Here we saw a maulaana struggling with his waning youth and how that creates an asymmetry in sexual power in his relationship with his wife. For all his acts of submission to God the maulaana is essentially a vain man whose greying beard has become an outward symbol of old age, one that his wife mocks him on. The dream that he has thus becomes a gateway to assert his manhood, where he is surrounded by naked hoors and he himself is cast in the similar “noorani jaama”, establishing a point of similarity between these ethereal beauties and himself.