About Musharraf Ali Farooqi: Musharraf Ali Farooqi is a Pakistani-Canadian writer, translator and essayist. Farooqi was among the five writers shortlisted for Asia's most prestigious literary prize in 2012.
One day when I ventured into the garden to regard its bloom, My eyes beheld on a bower a withered rose. When I inquired what had caused the blight, "My lips for a moment opened in a smile in this garden," it replied.
After sealing the door, Alqash went to the river to cleanse the blood from his hands and the dagger, and also to wash his hands of the faith that he had forfeited in exchange for short-lived riches.
