The poem recited by Hasan to Aisha "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. (he quotes from here) When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about." is by poet Rumi, a 13th-century Persian poet from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran.
Paratha is an Indian dish of flat wheat flour bread soaked in ghee or oil and cooked in a pan over an open fire. Aisha is seen eating paratha, rolled for easy nibbling, with cut mango pieces.
Kamala's broken necklace charm forms the Arabic letter "kaaf" which resembles an "S" in English, for the "Ms." in "Ms. Marvel".
The song playing at opening casting is "Tu mera chaand, Main teri chandani, Main tera raag, Tu meri raagini (You are my moon, I am your moonlight...)" is from the Hindi black-and-white film Dillagi (1949), composed by Naushad, lyrics by Shakeel Badayuni, singers Suraiya Jamaal Sheikh and Shyam. Though the song is played to set the mood for partition era music, the song didn't exist at the time of partition (1947); it was released in 1949.
Shown during the opening casting are Jawaharlal Nehru, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and Mohandas K. Gandhi, then Jinnah and Gandhi have also been shown as shaking hands.