bring coins candles and incense The narrator says The tomb covered with a red cotton cloth looks like the back of a dead fish The image shows false holiness built on emptiness Thus religion becomes a market of belief Blind Faith of the Villagers The villagers of Mahabbatpur are poor uneducated and deeply superstitious They believe that the mazar can solve every problem They never question the truth of Majeed s claim One quotation describes this blind faith The coming of the pir had filled Amena with new hope This illustrates how easily the poor rely on false hope They see the pir as God s messenger and trust his every word Waliullah here criticizes the social condition where religion becomes the only answer for misery Fear and Control under Religion Majeed spreads fear among the villagers to keep them under control He warns them about sin and divine punishment He says It is well that a man should know it when he sins ignorance is the greatest sin of all These words may sound religious but they are often used to control others The villagers begin to fear God through Majeed s words not through real faith They see him as the only one who can save them from God s anger Abuse of Religious Power Majeed uses religion for personal gain He becomes rich builds a home and marries twice He also interferes in others lives in the name of faith When Khaleque loves his wife Amena deeply Majeed creates a false fatwa to separate them He says Amena has evil coils in her body This cruel act illustrates how false leaders exploit people s happiness for their own power He even comforts a grieving mother by saying Allah takes away those whom he loves best Majeed knows these are lies but he uses them to keep people s trust Symbol of Rural Ignorance and Poverty The world of Mahabbatpur represents a society where ignorance and poverty are inextricably linked The villagers have no schools no awareness and no scientific knowledge So they believe in myths and miracles When poor people suffer they look for help in unseen powers Majeed takes advantage of this weakness Waliullah writes There are more tupees than heads of cattle more tupees than sheaves of grass This line shows how religious symbols have replaced reason and work In summary Tree Without Roots presents a clear and tragic picture of religious fanaticism Majeed s lies the villagers blind faith and their fear of divine punishment expose the weakness of human nature Waliullah shows that when poverty and ignorance dominate religion becomes an easy tool of exploitation