National Award-winning Bollywood actress Zaira Wasim has announced to quit showbiz, saying she was not happy with the line of work as it interfered with her faith and religion
MUMBAI (Pakistan Point News / Online - 01st July, 2019) National Award-winning Bollywood actress Zaira Wasim has announced to quit showbiz, saying she was not happy with the line of work as it interfered with her faith and religion.In a post on Facebook page, the Kashmiri-born Dangal star said she realised "though I may fit here perfectly, I do not belong here"."Five years ago I made a decision that changed my life forever. As I stepped my foot in Bollywood, it opened doors of massive popularity for me.
I started to become the prime candidate of public attention, I was projected as the gospel of the idea of success and was often identified as a role model for the youth."However, that s never something that I set out to do or become, especially with regards to my ideas of success and failure, which I had just started to explore and understand," Wasim said in the lengthy post.The 18-year-old actor said as she completed five years in the profession, she wanted to "confess that I am not truly happy with this identity i.
e my line of work". "For a very long time now it has felt like I have struggled to become someone else. As I had just started to explore and make sense of the things to which I dedicated my time, efforts and emotions and tried to grab hold of a new lifestyle, it was only for me to realise that though I may fit here perfectly, I do not belong here.""This field indeed brought a lot of love, support, and applause my way, but what it also did was to lead me to a path of ignorance, as I silently and unconsciously transitioned out of imaan (faith).
While I continued to work in an environment that consistently interfered with my imaan, my relationship with my religion was threatened," she said.Zaira Wasim said as she continued to "ignorantly pass through" while trying to convince herself that what she was doing was okay and was not really affecting her, "I lost all the Barakah (blessing) from my life"."I was constantly battling with my soul to reconcile my thoughts and instincts to fix a static picture of my imaan and I failed miserably, not just once but a hundred times.
.."I kept procrastinating by tricking and deluding my conscience into the idea that I know what I am doing doesn t feel right but assumed that I will put an end to this whenever the time feels right and I continued to put myself in a vulnerable position where it was always so easy to succumb to the environment that damaged my peace, imaan and my relationship with Allah (God)," she said.Talking about her life as an actor, she said she continued to observe things and twist her perceptions as she wanted them to be, without really understanding that the key was to see them as they were.
"In the great and divine wisdom of the Quran, I found sufficiency and peace. Indeed the hearts find peace when it acquires the knowledge of Its Creator, His Attributes, His Mercy and His commandments," she added.Zaira Wasim said she began to heavily rely upon Allah s mercy for help and guidance instead of valuing her own believability. "I discovered my lack of knowledge of the basic fundamentals of my religion and how my inability to reinforce a change earlier was a result of confusing my heart s contentment and wellbeing with strengthening and satisfying my own (shallow and worldly) desires," she said.
