'Show no arrogance, lower your voice': Amir Khan's wife Faryal reignites their war of words with thinly veiled insult in Koran tweet as she posts new image after declaring 'hold your head up high'
- Boxer Amir Khan, from Bolton, yesterday accused his wife of cheating with fellow fighter Anthony Joshua
- But his model wife, 26, hit back on social media, claiming her husband is lying and accusing him of cheating
- Joshua laughed off the claims by posting a video of Shaggy's hit single It Wasn't Me and denying the link
- Source says Makhdoom tried to backtrack, claiming her account was hacked but Khan refused to play along
Faryal Makhdoom has shared her first selfie since the Twitter bust-up with husband Amir Khan saying 'hold your head high', shortly after retweeting a message from the Koran on social media warning people to 'show no arrogance'.
The model, 26, last night tried to backtrack on her astonishing love-split Twitter feud with Khan by deleting her tweets from their spat and claiming she had been hacked so the couple could stay together for the sake of their daughter, a source close to the family has said.
Last night, the pair fought a remarkable war of words in front of millions as champion boxer Khan announced their break-up and accused his wife of cheating with heavyweight boxer Anthony Joshua.
Makhdoom later claimed her account had been hacked and deleted nearly all of her tweets from the row.
But today she shared a message from an account called 'The Noble Qu'ran', with a verse 'And be moderate (or show no arrogance) in your walking and lower your voice.'
And she posted the first picture of herself since the announcement, wearing an off-the-shoulder top and ripped jeans and appearing to be standing in a hotel bathroom.
A friend today said Makhdoom contacted Khan in Dubai and her parents got in touch with his family in Bolton to offer an olive branch and say it was in the pair's best interests to stay together for the sake of their daughter Lamaisah, two.
Makhdoom has posted a new image to Instagram after the split, with the message 'hold your head up high'. She appears to be in the bathroom of a hotel
Olive branch: Farayl Makhdoom tried to backtrack on her love-split Twitter feud with Amir Khan for the sake of their daughter Lamaisah, two. Left: Khan with Makhdoom, her mother and Lamaisah. Right: The Khans at home
Faryal retweeted a tweet from the Noble Quran, which read 'be moderate (or show no arrogance) in your walking, and lower your voice
But Khan foiled her plan by uploading a snapchat video from Dubai saying their split was real and no-one had been hacked.
The source told MailOnline Makhdoom came up with the idea that both should announce that their twitter accounts have been hacked and tell the media as a 'way out'.
He added Makhdoom had briefed two publications in UK and one English paper in Pakistan about the 'hacked' account as part of her plan to win Khan back.
But Khan refused to play her game. The source said: 'Amir stood his ground and told her that it was over and that he had mentally decided to move on from her and that he was unable to take it anymore.
'He hung up on her and when she texted again with threatening messages, he released video message to put an end to it all.'
Makhdoom allegedly told Khan that they were not officially divorced because he had not said the Talaak (Arabic for divorce) to her three times as tradition requires. Khan then texted her 'talaak, talaak, talaak', said the source.
Happier times: Champion boxer Amir Khan, 30, with Faryal Makhdoom, 26, on Valentine's Day (left) and at his cousin's wedding (right) in Pakistan
Makhdoom said last night that she had tried to stop Khan from drinking alcohol every night and be a better Muslim, according to the source.
She allegedly fears 'Islamist radicals' would issue a fatwa - an Islamic ruling - against Khan for his un-Islamic behaviour.
The friend said Khan fears that Makhdoom will continue to denounce him on religious grounds in the coming days. MailOnline has contacted Makhdoom without reply.
At Khan's parents' new home in Bolton, his father said he had nothing to do with the public falling out of the couple.
His brother Haroon told the Sun that if they had split it would be 'a huge relief'.
He said: 'This is a shock but, if true, not unexpected. We’ve heard the rumours and we’re trying to find out exactly what’s happened.'
Sajjad, Khan's father, has spoken frequently about their marriage, questioning if they were truly happy, while hoping they could stay together so that their daughter would not suffer.
He previously said: 'She’s a gold digger and she’s very false, in fact she’s 100 per cent fake and my son and we are all finally seeing through her.'
This morning Makhdoom tweeted a cryptic message calling for 'patience' as the dust settles after their astonishing feud.
The model, who has been married to the champion boxer for four years, posted the word 'patience' in English and Arabic at 8.14am. She added no words and deleted it half an hour later.
Final picture: The pair were pictured five days ago in Dubai, enjoying time together in an ice bar before the Twitter row
Cryptic: The model, who has been married to the champion boxer for four years, posted the word 'patience' in English and Arabic at 8.14am. She added no words and deleted it half an hour later
Khan, who is worth £23million, struck the first blow yesterday afternoon by announcing their divorce – then claiming his American model wife was having an affair with heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua.
The 30-year-old said: 'Left my family and friends for this Faryal. I'm not hurt but another fighter. I'm making it public. You getting the divorce #Golddigger.'
But Makhdoom hit back minutes later, claiming her husband left his family because they had 'robbed' him and telling him to 'stop making false things up'.
Branding him a '30-year-old baby', she went on to accuse him of sleeping with prostitutes and being a bad role model.
Khan's family, who have infamously criticised his wife in public, waded into the debacle, launching an attack on the model by calling her 'selfish' and even claiming she drove him into depression.
A Khan family source told MailOnline: 'Amir and Faryal have split up. It's over. There have been problems in the relationship for a long time and they were headed for a separation. It's the best outcome.
Another Khan family source told MailOnline: 'Faryal is evil. She took control of Amir and drove him to the extent where he has suffered depression.
'Amir was almost held hostage by in-laws and was given 'either with us or against us' situation to decide between his family and in laws.
'That's tragic. It was clear from very early on that Faryal is interested in Amir's money and fame and we told Amir so that she's a bad choice.
'We all make mistakes. It's good Amir has reached to the conclusive fact that she's a cheater, selfish and greedy. This was bound to happen.'
After the Twitter row, Makhdoom snapchatted followers saying their accounts had been compromised.
She wrote: 'My accounts have been hacked! Wtf!' She later deleted her wave of tweets about the split.
But within minutes of her claims of a hack, Khan had snapchatted himself to confirm the split was true, and no one had been hacked.
He said: 'Everything you saw on social media, it is real. Obviously, me and Faryal have decided to move on and I have decided walk away.
'Nothing has been hacked. We have to move forward it's not healthy for any of us. I'm just not happy with the way I get treated by her.
'I wish her all the best in the future. Don't want you guys to worry. I am staying strong. Big thank you for all your support. What's done is done, it's all true.'
Makhdoom sent a series of messages on snapchat this evening claiming her account had been hacked and none of the messages were from her or Khan
Khan snapchatted a video to his followers telling them the social media claims had been correct and they were splitting - and no one had been hacked
Olympic champion Khan, 30, started the public feud, writing: 'So me and the wife Faryal have agreed to split. I'm currently in Dubai. Wish her all the best.
'Faryal moved on quick. Always mentioned to me how much she wanted to be with another guy, from all people another boxer.
'Lol moved up in the weight classes lol. Trust me I ain't the jealous type. No need to send me pictures of the men your talking to #disgusted
'Left my family and friends for this Faryal. I'm not hurt but another fighter. I'm making it public. You getting the divorce #Golddigger. Mans like Joshua can have my left overs!'
Makhdoom, 26, hit back on her own Twitter account and accused him of cheating on her.
She wrote: 'I'm sure you left your family because they robbed you? Not because of me. Stop making false things up.
'Accusing other boxers just because your boxing career is finished. Man up amir.
'After all these years. I've always defending a cheat, always stuck around for him, always had his back. And I'm called a gold digger?'
The couple were together on holiday in Dubai to celebrate Faryal's 26th birthday last week, but it's understood that Faryal has since flown back to England herself.
Amir Khan and his wife Faryal Makhdoom sensationally announced their marriage is over in an explosive ongoing row on Twitter, which has seen them both accusing each other of cheating
The boxer, from Bolton, this afternoon astonishingly claimed she had an affair with heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua
Joshua, 27, laughed off the claims by posting a video of Shaggy's hit single 'It Wasn't Me'.
He then tweeted: 'Bantz aside, I hope you guys can resolve your situation or this is a hack as we have never even met! Plus I like my women BBW #ItWasntMe'
Makhdoom added: 'LOL! He's given me jack s**t -- I pay house bills and bills for my daughter myself! It's like I'm a single mother while he's out messing around. And he has the nerve to blast me like that?
'The amount of evidence I have on you. It can destroy you. But since I loved you at one point in my life. I'll just let it go.
'I'm not the one who's been in the papers every month with my pants down. Cheater!
'You have actually lost it. Wtf where do u make this stuff up from? And maybe your boxing career is finished because you're an adulterer.
'At the end of the day I can hold my head high knowing I've given this marriage my 100% while amir clearly hasn't. Bad company.
'Bad role model, always around women, alcohol and then he calls himself a Muslim and runs a charity.
'I'm sorry to all the fans & family hurt by this. But amir did not need to do stupid tweets accusing others when he's in the wrong. #guilty
'I think he just needs some attention because boxing hasn't been going well for him so he's just been acting up #30yearoldbaby
'Sometimes people don't like it when you give them a taste of their own medicine.'
The news came after the couple ended their bitter six-month public feud with Khan's family
When Faryal was approached for a comment at the couple's £1.4million gated home in Lostock, near Bolton, yesterday afternoon, there was no response.
Joshua has also not been seen for several days in his north London neighbourhood.
Laundry worker Hiyat, who works at Launderette in Golders Green, where the star boxer is a regular customer said the boxer has not been seen since mid-July.
His mother Yeta had also not been into the shop, where Anthony has had his laundry done since 2009, for a few days.
Hiyat said: 'I haven't seen Anthony for about three weeks or his mum for about three days.
'I'm not sure where he has gone though, I don't know if he's on holiday.'
There was also no answer at the family flat where the 27-year-old still lives with his mum, despite being a millionaire.
The news of their split came after the couple ended their bitter six-month public feud with Khan's family.
Another Khan family source told MailOnline: 'Faryal is evil. She took control of Amir and drove him to the extent where he has suffered depression.
'Amir was almost held hostage by in laws and was given 'either with us or against us' situation to decide between his family and in laws.
'That's tragic. It was clear from very early on that Faryal is interested in Amir's money and fame and we told Amir so that she's a bad choice.
'We all make mistakes. It's good Amir has reached to the conclusive fact that she's a cheater, selfish and greedy. This was bound to happen.
'She he has been caught out, Amir has known for long she loves showing flesh to men and being interested in praise by random men and confronted her.
'They found twice in America when Amir asked her to be modest, she issued threats to Amir and demanded 60 per cent share in property. For the last five months or so she only talked about share in Amir's wealth and nothing else.'
Make-up artist Faryal has had a tumultuous few months in which she became embroiled in a huge row with her husband's family, claiming they accused her of being a gold digger and dressing in an un-Islamic fashion.
The couple were hit by further drama when a sex tape of Khan performing a sex act on a webcam while chatting with a model was leaked to a US porn site.
Earlier this year, Faryal gave her sports-star hubby an ultimatum to choose between her or his family after months of infighting and rows.
Faryal banned the boxer from attending his younger brother Haroon's wedding because she still can't forgive him for comparing her to Michael Jackson.
The sex tape, which was reportedly leaked to a major US porn site, featured the former world champion boxer carrying out a sex act while speaking to a female model on Skype.
The Khans appeared on This Morning in March to claim that the webcam footage of Khan was made before they met.
The couple, who live in Bolton, Greater Manchester and married in the US 2013, also suggested it was leaked out of spite by someone once 'close' to them.
To add a further blow, Amir's father revealed he would never talk to Faryal ever again after he was 'humiliated' following his sacking as the boxer's manager.
Mr Khan has always managed his son's professional career, seeing him through the ups and down of the 30-year-old champion boxer's life.
Earlier this week, it emerged that Amir Khan had knocked £200,000 off the asking price for his lavish mansion - less than a month after putting it up for sale.
The 30-year-old's property, which features a massive indoor swimming pool and sauna, was listed for £1.6million at the end of June but the value has now dropped to £1.4million.
The amended asking price for the modern, glass-fronted 3,500 square foot house, which is near to Khan's hometown of Bolton, also includes a homely four-bedroom bungalow opposite the two-time world champion's driveway.
Happier times: How Amir Khan and Faryal Makhdoom wed in one of New York's most famous hotels in front of the great and the good of the Big Apple's Asian community
Four years ago, British boxer Amir Khan was setting out to start a new life with his now wife alongside him.
Khan met and married Faryal Makhdoom in New York, and their wedding was little short of a fairytale.
They married at the stunning Waldorf Astoria Hotel, and dazzled in colour-matching costumes of red, silver and white, heavily encrusted with glittering gems.
Khan's traditional Pakistani tunic was crowned by a crimson turban.
Amir Khan and Faryal Makhdoom married in an elaborate ceremony for 300 guests in New York in 2013
Daily Mail Boxing columnist Jeff Powell, who was a guest at the wedding wrote that Miss Makhdoom's dress was so richly embroidered that it weighed on her petite frame as she climbed the stairs to the stage, there to take her place beside Amir on a silver throne framed by giant golden pillars hung with plush velvet drapes.
Khan's father and mentor, Shah, said: 'We are very happy as a family and I am sure the responsibility of married life will be good for Amir.
Khan was said to have never looked happier than he did as he and his bride performed their first dance, exchanged huge rings and cut a five-tier wedding cake.
The pre-function reception was a feast unto itself, featuring lamb with all the trimmings, shell-fish with caviar, every pasta dish imaginable and an Oriental food station. Dinner comprised a beets-based vegetable creation followed by either salmon or chicken and, of course, that wedding cake. All washed down, of course, by the purest of water.
For those still hungry as the evening wore on, a buffet of Indian food was at hand.
This was the centre-piece of myriad celebrations. The signing of the formal marriage documents took place earlier, presided over by the female elders of two families of hard-working emigrants from Pakistan who built successful lives and had their children in Bolton and New York respectively.
After the wedding with an elite 300 guests, they flew back to the UK, where they held a celebration for 4,000 people where footballers from Bolton Wanderers were on the list.
But tensions soon started to brew, and after the birth of their daughter Lamaisah, in 2014, when Makhdoom had moved to Bolton from her hometown, the family spats began.
Khan's family accused the new mother of dressing 'improperly' for a Muslim woman.
She accused them of physical and verbal abuse and angry remarks were slung back and forth across social media.
In April this year, she told the Daily Mail's You magazine: 'When you're in the public eye, a lot of people want to go after your marriage. I knew what I was signing myself up for.
'I know Amir better than anyone and the main thing is trust. I could be working with a hundred men and Amir would trust me. At the end of the day, he comes home to me.'
She added: 'For some cultures, the daughter-in-law is there to have babies, to cook and clean. They don't see that she can be an independent woman, that she can go out and work, and that husbands can help with the babies.
'But it's not about religion – I know religious families who are very sophisticated. It's about education.'
She told You magazine, her parents valued education highly for both their children. 'They pushed us in our studies. My family took education really seriously, whereas Amir's didn't. I wanted to go to law school eventually and become a corporate lawyer,' she recalls.
She enrolled to study political science and journalism at Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences in New Jersey. Less than two years into her studies, however, aged 19, she met Amir, then 24, through mutual friends at a party in New York.
'He said, 'You're like a girl I would marry.' I thought, what a total bull****,' she laughs.
They kept in touch on Skype, but she wasn't fully aware of the extent of his fame until eight months later when Makhdoom was visiting London with her family and Khan drove from Bolton to see her. They were papped together outside Harrods. 'That's when I realised what a big deal he was,' she admits, with a wry smile.
But three weeks before her wedding, she was asked by Amir's management team (which included his father and other family members) to sign a prenup. 'In our culture, that's really bad,' she says, frowning.
'I couldn't care less about the money but my parents felt very insulted, especially because they are so well off. My parents didn't make Amir sign a prenup.'
Faryal signed the document nonetheless. 'I wanted to prove I didn't want the money. I wanted Amir. He is the love of my life.' Amir later cancelled the prenup when Faryal was pregnant. 'I never asked him to do that,' she insists. 'But it made me happy because it showed that he loved me.'
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