00:00This man is Faizul Hassan Kadri and behind him isn't just a tomb,
00:04it's a retired postmaster's final love letter to his Begum.
00:07Just 130km from the real Taj Mahal, in a small village in Bulanshahar stands this mini Taj.
00:14But the real question isn't how he built it, it's why.
00:16Faizul was an ordinary man who married the Jamuli Begum back in 1953.
00:21When they were newly married, she didn't know how to cook, so he taught her.
00:24She hadn't studied much either, so Faizul would sit with her and teach her short Urdu lessons
00:29until she could read on her own. They never had children.
00:32Years later, a tumour in her uterus had taken away that chance as well.
00:35People told him to remarry, but he refused. For him, love wasn't replaceable.
00:40They spent over five decades together, but fate took its turn.
00:43Taj Mahal was diagnosed with throat cancer.
00:45Somewhere deep inside, Taj Mahal carried a fear many of us never say out loud.
00:49When we're gone, will anyone remember us? So Faizul made her a promise.
00:53He told her that even after death, she would never disappear from the world.
00:57That he would lay her to rest on their own land, right in front of their home,
01:00and build something that time itself couldn't ignore.
01:03In 2011, as cancer slowly took her away, that promise stopped being just words.
01:08It became his life's last mission.
01:09On his farmland, beside the house they had shared for decades, he began building.
01:14It wasn't grand, it wasn't royal, it didn't glitter with marble or jewels like the original Taj Mahal,
01:19but brick by brick, he built it with the only riches he had.
01:22His love, pension, memories and 450 guzzles he wrote for her.
01:26In 2018, Faizul died in a road accident.
01:29But to those who knew his story, it didn't feel like an ending.
01:32It felt like a reunion he had been waiting for since the day she left.
01:35His final wish was granted.
01:37He was buried inside that very tomb, beside the woman he had built it for.
01:41Today, the Taj of Bulanshahar stands unfinished, without its coat of white marble.
01:45But maybe that's the most beautiful part about it.
01:47Because sometimes, the most complete love stories are the ones left unfinished.
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