Peer e Kamil is one of the famous
and most loved novel of Umera Ahmed. It is the story of Imama Hashim and Salar
Sikander who belong to two completely different religious backgrounds. It is
about their journey from the darkness of this temporary world to the
enlightening world of Islam. This whole journey of finding a Peer e Kamil or
The Perfect Mentor who can only be our Last Prophet Hazrat Muhammad SAW is
quite different for both of them but somehow this expedition of Islam from
different points connects them in the purest relation of nikah. 
If we talk about Imama she
belongs to an upper-class rich Ahmadi family where she had grown up in a conservative
environment. Being the dearest in her whole family she was showered with lots
of love and was allowed to study in a medical college in Lahore. Imama had a
dream to become the best eye specialist in Pakistan so she not only loved to study
medicine but it was her passion. She used to think that if she couldn't become
a doctor she would be dead.
On the other hand, Salar is the
most intelligent guy in his family having an IQ of 150 and he is very popular
among his school and family for all the achievements that take soo many years
for a normal person to achieve. Salar also belongs to an elite background and
he lives in the neighborhood of Imama. He is also a close friend of Imama's
brother Waseem. All the unconditional love and care from both parents and
everyone around had made Salar a stubborn kinda person who wants to get his
every wish fulfilled. Being blessed with so many things in his life, Salar had
always been in search of something that would give him an ecstatic feeling;
something like drugs that would let him stay high yet conscious so he would exactly
experience what it feels like.
The story starts when once in the
college Imama's best friend Jaweria told her about her biggest desire for Imama
to become a Muslim. This wish came to Imama as a shock that her childhood best
friend used to think of her as a non-muslim. This played an important role in
her first step towards the journey to know that why she was labeled as a
non-muslim and how her whole family went astray from the right path of Islam
just for the sake of money. This journey was full of thorns and challenges for
Imama where she had to silently study Islam so that no one in her family gets
to know about her change of religion.
As far as Salar's journey is
concerned, I think he had the toughest lessons of his life to teach him that
all the glitters of this temporary world mean nothing when death comes to you. He
was the kind of person who used to enjoy life at its fullest with a liberal
mindset having girlfriends and no boundary line between haram and halal. Since Salar
had been always in search of that particular ecstatic feeling; he tried to
commit suicide 4 times in the hope that he would be able to experience that feeling.
And the last time when he tried to cut his veins with a blade it was Imama who
gave him first aid. This was the first face to face interaction between them
and it was the same meeting in which Imama slapped Salar really hard.
There are going to be so many
turns and twists where Imama and Salar get tied in the relationship of nikah and
how Imama left her house with the help of Salar. Then Salar leaving Pakistan
for further studies and Imama struggling to get her life together and find a
place to live. Then Imama disappearing for 9 whole years where Salar gets
flashbacks of their interaction and meanwhile with those flashbacks falls in
love with Imama.
The kind of Salar you are going
to see in the first half of the book will no longer remain the same Salar in
the second half and I must say that you would love to read how Salar changed,
became a Hafiz e Quran, fell in love with Imama, opened a school in a village
for children. And most importantly, how Salar and Imama met in the end after 9
years and their conversation took away my heart❤