Part Two The Cruel Father

Part Two The Cruel Father

The quarrel between Soraya and her stepmother continued for many days, and the stepmother was very afraid of Soraya, because Soraya had a very difficult and nervous nature and did not accept insults from anyone. The Maragheh and traveled to Luxor so that their father could return to work again. The stepmother was taking advantage of Souad's weakness and ordering her to do the housework. Souad was afraid of her stepmother because she was young and did not want to cause problems with her stepmother, so she obeyed her. The stepmother, Atiyat, always complained about Salah and Jaber until Sedition occurs and causes the father to beat his children. The stepmother used to host her mother, brother and sister in her husband’s house, and each of them interfered in matters that did not concern him in the affairs of her husband’s daughters, and each of them expressed his opinion in their own affairs. It was like colonizing a country that was free and became occupied after the death of their mother. It was a real tragedy.

As for Roayat, who married her relative, Muhammad al-Sayyid, she suffered a lot from her husband’s mother, called Fatima, as she was taking advantage of her being an orphan and alone, and her father was not present in the city, and she was always cursing and beating her. And he used to come only on military service leave to his house, and during this period, Royaat was living with her husband’s mother alone, humiliated, insulting and beating her, so her husband’s mother changed a lot from her, and a year passed since her marriage to Muhammad, but she did not have children from him, so her husband’s mother used to insult her and her husband’s father insulted her every day, humiliation and great humiliation

She endured many visions of very bad treatment and humiliation, and she began to pray to God a lot to bless her with children. She also prayed to God to take her husband's father and die and never see her next child.

And God answered her prayer, God wanted her to give birth to visions of her first child after much waiting and supplication, and on the night of the occurrence of labor pains, her husband’s father died at the same moment without seeing his first grandson, Glory be to God, as she called for visions of God, and he fulfilled her wish

The visions were very happy, and his wife was very happy with this child, as he came to them after a long wait, and the name of the child was Omar

At the same time, the Royaat family came to congratulate her on the new baby, so Soraya, Suad, their father, their stepmother, Salah and Jaber came to the city, and they were received by the family, including Zaki and Soraya's aunt, Umm Zaki

Zaki was looking at Soraya with admiration and wished how much he dreamed of her as his wife

Fouad loved Soraya and Soraya loved Fouad

Fouad asked his parents to marry Soraya, but Umm Fouad does not want Fouad to marry Soraya and wants him to marry her niece, Samia. He has time to think about it and answer it

Abu Thuraya wanted his nephew Fouad to marry his son, Thuraya, and waited for him to propose to his daughter, but he did not do so and went and got engaged to Samia. Then Thuraya felt betrayed and sad, as well as Abu Thuraya’s anger at what happened, and their next decision was a result of this shock that occurred from the uncle and his son

Samia used to live in Cairo, the capital of Egypt, and Fouad went to her from the far reaches of Upper Egypt to propose to her, but there was a kind of exploitation of Fouad from Samia and her mother, so they were many requests, in addition to that she asked to live in Cairo and not go with him to Upper Egypt, and this matter angered Fouad's mother a lot, as she would not She can see her son and he will be far from her, so she felt very remorseful because she was the reason for that, because she was the one who rejected Soraya and preferred Samia over her, and now she will not be able to see her son after marrying her niece. Fouad visited his uncle to propose to his cousin Soraya, but after what had happened, his uncle's response was that he would not marry his daughter Soraya to him because he left her before and went and got engaged to Samia and did not come to propose to his daughter first, and he was talking to Fouad with great anger and told him to go to your first fiancée

So Fouad came out sad and upset with his uncle's words, he did not know what to do, he started crying a lot, because his uncle rejected him, and he will not be able to marry the love of his life, Soraya, and the reason for that is his mother and father

At the same time, Zaki came to Luxor to ask Soraya to propose to her father, but her father agreed to the engagement and set the date for their marriage contract and wrote a marriage contract for Soraya and Zaki.

Fouad learned of Soraya's sermon, and he began to cry a lot. Fouad went to his mother in a deplorable condition, and he took and collected all his belongings for the house and headed to the train, leaving his father's house, hating everything in the house and the city, and heading to Cairo, as if he was taking revenge on himself and on his mother and father. He returned to Samia, bonded with her, and lived with her. In Cairo, leaving Upper Egypt and his mother and father behind