Actor Maya Ali wants everyone to spend more time out of their routines with their parents.

She
has penned an emotional note for her late father, expressing how she misses him
in her life.

“It’s been four years since you left us. People say time is a great healer but the reality is not the same always,” she wrote on Instagram.

View this post on Instagram It’s been four years since you left us. People say time is a great healer but the reality is not the same always. I miss you baba jan on every small moment, with each passing day, whenever there is an up and down. You’re in my prayers, in my thoughts and you always will be. I have always said this, and I am still saying and I always will, please spend as much time as possible with your parents. Once they are gone they won’t come back. Please recite Surah Fateha for my baba.. A post shared by Maya Ali (@official_mayaali) on Oct 31, 2020 at 3:59pm PDT

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“I
miss you baba jaan on every small moment, with each passing day, whenever there
is an up and down. You’re in my prayers, in my thoughts and you always will be,”
she said. “I have always said this, and I am still saying and I always will,
please spend as much time as possible with your parents. Once they are gone
they won’t come back.”

She
also asked them to recite Surah Fateha for her late father.

Ali lost her father in 2016. She has been open about her relationship with him. In a BBC interview, the actor said that her father was not happy with her choice of career and refused to speak to her. She said that they made peace six months before he passed away.

On the work front, Ali is set to return to TV screens with her upcoming drama Pehli Si Mohabbat, opposite Sheheryar Munawar. It will be directed by Anjum Shahzad and the script has been penned by Faiza Iftikhar.