The Perfect Mentor-Translation of Pir-e-Kamil(S.A.W) Kindle Edition

This book is amazing in so many ways I highly recommend you to read it! I do not wish to enter in to details since I don’t want to spoil the book for anyone who’s going to read it for the first time! I will say that you won’t regret reading it

Excellent read! captivating story a very different style of story telling but a page turner.

Wonderful read and shining with the light of truth. A must read for all people in all walks of life.

Cen't remember reading a book that left me speechless. It has made such an huge impact on my.Beautiful written og excellent story!

I was expecting more from Umera Ahmad than a novel that seems to be written solely with purpose of converting people over to Islam. I was extremely disappointed because I loved her earlier works--specially Zindagi Gulzar Hai.

Nice read ! Heard a lot about the Urdu version of the book.

The Perfect Mentor - pbuh (2011, English version 2014) is set in Lahore and Islamabad, Pakistan. The novel commences with Imama Mubeen in medical university. She wants to be an eye specialist. Her parents have arranged for her to marry her first cousin Asjad.Salar Sikander, her neighbour, is 18 years old with an IQ of 150+ and a photographic memory. He has long hair tied in a ponytail. He imbibes alcohol, treats women disrespectfully and is generally a “weird chap” and a rude, belligerent teenager. In the past three years he has tried to commit suicide three times. He tries again. Imama and her brother, Waseem, answer the servant’s call to help Salar. They stop the bleeding from his wrist and save his life.Imama and Asjad have been engaged for three years, because she wants to finish her studies first. Imama is really delaying her marriage to Asjad because she loves Jalal Ansar. She proposes to him and he says yes. But he knows his parents won’t agree, nor will Imama’s parents. That’s because she is from the Ahmadi community of Qadiani creed, and only converted to “true Islam” a few months before her proposal.Imama’s father wants to accelerate the wedding date to Asjad. Imama is furious with her father, and her father is outraged that she had changed her faith. Her father confines her to the parental home. Imama seeks Salar’s help to act as a go-between with Jalal – even though she finds Salar obnoxious. Jalal tells Salar that he will reject Imama because his parents refuse permission to marry. It will complicate his life if he tries to go against his parents’ wishes. She is distraught. Salar, now 21 years old, thinks that a woman who is forced to marry a man she doesn’t love and is rejected by the man she really loves will “probably think of suicide.” He perversely thinks her predicament is “amusing” and an “adventure” so he deliberately lies to her. Her father lies to her, and everyone lies to her. But no, suicide is the last thing on Imama’s mind. She has another idea.Salar changes his ways, cleans up his act, goes to university, and gets a job. But eight years later he is haunted by thoughts of Imama: from contempt, mockery, regret, hatred, envy, and even love. Friends urge him to get on with his life, and to marry, but he can’t get Imama out of his mind. He is wracked with guilt and shame for the lies he has told, and his despicable past.Umera Ahmed is an accomplished storyteller, weaving social norms with the rebelliousness or collapse of teenagers against parental pressure. It is about folly, angst, desires, and dreams. The story takes twists and turns as the characters mature over time – and people are not who they seem. Interesting novel.

Excellent Novel a must read. Highly recommended. Read it in english will read in urdu also. One should make a movie or drama serial on this remarkable Novel

This was a well written inspirational story, which clung in the mind for some time afterwards. Look forward to reading more by this author

One of the best books, must read. Beautiful, flows perfectly, good life lessons. Lost for words, truly an amazing book

Brought my heart back to the straight path and revived it...thank you.

A brilliant read!

What a wonderful story. I loved the whole book, and was sad when it came to and end, even though I guessed the ending. I can't wait to read the sequel.