| Book Description | In "Aisha Descends to the Underworld," Bishan Al-Issa adds a philosophical layer to highlight the interconnectedness of life and death, the worldly and the afterlife, in a differing perspective on time. It tells the story of a mother who lost her son and wishes to keep his memory alive after his tragic death. There is nothing more painful than losing a loved one, and nothing more horrifying than the gradual fading of their memoryespecially if the death was by drowning and witnessed. After the tragic death of her child, the mother refuses to accept the idea of life without him, deciding to descend to the underworld through writing. On her journey to enter the underworld, she must pass through seven gates, and now she is crossing the seventh gate. On the threshold of her final departure, she sees nothingness glimmering and shining, absorbing her soul. However, there is a condition for entering this realm: she must shed her explicit woundher son and his memory. Can the mother exist outside this wound? "O Aisha (the laws of the underworld have been meticulously crafted, so do not question, O Aisha, the rituals of the underworld) your child is your pain, your pain is you. The wound now has your face and name and the panting of your breaths; onlookers cannot discern where your wound begins and where your scream ends. You cling to your tears as if they were your salvation. You are shrouded in your eternal sorrow, and you wound the world with your pain. The universe cannot be your victim, O Aisha. Shed your wound, kiss it between its eyes, and let it go; free it, embrace its shadow, and allow it to depart. All the attachments you left at the previous six gates were to prepare you for this. None can compare to this one in weight and density. Your salvation will come only through transcending yourself; fill yourself with love, O Aisha, and release his spirit free. What are you now? A pure soul." And here, Aisha now admits that for the first time in her life, ".For the first time in my life, I was able to be myself, without being a wife, or a mother, or a daughter, without being anything other than what I am, a pure soul. My sense of my spiritual truth is very strong, and I do not need to die to feel it. So let me stop writing then and go to experience the world.". After "Aisha Descends to the Underworld," there is a narrative impact that entails significant effort in terms of language, discourse, techniques, and connotations, perhaps greater than the story itself, which in turn demands effort in reading. |
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