 The superstitious male attitude towards marriage and women is also criticised in this novella.Mahbub's most well-known work, translated into English by Lila Roy as "The Confession of a Believer" is a novel—as the title suggests, on autobiographical elements—that portrays the central character as having gone through the continuous biting of the conscience mainly on moral grounds.As is Mahbub's habit to approach critical issues, the beginning of the novel contains a fictional discourse run by the child-protagonist about the existence of God.