Zareena Darr Cassette
Communicating
I had a bad dream and couldn’t call you
Cassette 
Potwari
“Bismillah ar Raheman ar Raheem, Assalam o Alaikum sister and brother…
Brother, I had a bad dream and it was terrible – I was upset the whole day recalling it. I don’t know why but I dreamt that you were ill, sister Halima and brother Yaseen – I’m talking about the two of you. I had such heartache over it seeing you ill like that, so I told Maryam about the dream, and I told her I didn’t know why it was so bad, but she told me that I’m always thinking too much and that it will be fine. They’d call us and speak to us if there was anything wrong she said. Also sister, the phone number I took from you wasn’t right – either I took it down wrong or something else happened, but when I dialed the number, the operator spoke and was saying something I didn’t understand. I called brother Zafraan’s family home on the phone, he just wanted to ask if everything was OK. He said he is fine. I also spoke with Abida, Shahida and Zahida. And also Saleema, she was there too, and she was telling me that everything is good at her home in the village…
(pause on the cassette)
… aunties and the others were there too so I felt a little better, but I still wasn’t settled so I dialed your number and talked to you, but just for a while, because those telephone calls are so expensive. The things I want to tell you from the heart have to stay in the heart. I couldn’t tell you everything and I have a lot of things to talk about. I don’t know when I’m going to meet you, and God knows when these locks on the heart will be broken – it looks impossible…”
Cassette Potwari
“Bismillah ar Raheman ar Raheem, Assalam o Alaikum sister and brother…
Brother, I had a bad dream and it was terrible – I was upset the whole day recalling it. I don’t know why but I dreamt that you were ill, sister Halima and brother Yaseen – I’m talking about the two of you. I had such heartache over it seeing you ill like that, so I told Maryam about the dream, and I told her I didn’t know why it was so bad, but she told me that I’m always thinking too much and that it will be fine. They’d call us and speak to us if there was anything wrong she said. Also sister, the phone number I took from you wasn’t right – either I took it down wrong or something else happened, but when I dialed the number, the operator spoke and was saying something I didn’t understand. I called brother Zafraan’s family home on the phone, he just wanted to ask if everything was OK. He said he is fine. I also spoke with Abida, Shahida and Zahida. And also Saleema, she was there too, and she was telling me that everything is good at her home in the village…
(pause on the cassette)
… aunties and the others were there too so I felt a little better, but I still wasn’t settled so I dialed your number and talked to you, but just for a while, because those telephone calls are so expensive. The things I want to tell you from the heart have to stay in the heart. I couldn’t tell you everything and I have a lot of things to talk about. I don’t know when I’m going to meet you, and God knows when these locks on the heart will be broken – it looks impossible…”