Re: Saat Laraa Haar
Yes, I myself am a bahu, and actually, my mother in law completely agreed with my sister and I that these heirlooms should stay with my mom’s nawasi as she was the first born grandchild in our family, is the ONLY girl, and was the light of my mother’s life. My sister and I are VERY luck that our husband’s are VERY generous and we both, mashallah have amassed quite alot of jewelry, both eastern & western, throughout our marriages. We’ve both decided that whatever we recieved from our husbands & inlaws will go straight to our future bahus, (i have 3 sons, she has 1), but these precious sets that were our mother’s will only pass to my niece.
I don’t see anything negative or wrong, or sad with that. In fact, I myself was gifted an exquisite, antique karra, by my taya & taayi ma dating back to the Pre-Partion, when my taaya was given this as gift from someone in the Nizam of Hyderabad’s court. My taaya has 5 bahus, but no daughters of his own, and he and my taayi ma chose to give this to me, as I have always been a close pet of theirs. Do you see that as sad as well???