Al Hafiz

All names of allah are beautiful and beneficial, the name al hafiz is a token of protection for the practitioner

Hazrat Ali Karam Allah Wajaha

The wise hazrat"s anecdotes exhibiting his logic exercising his sharp sense of justice to solve disputes in extraordinary way

New Recipese

Brinjal dishes-starting with hyderabadi bengun, medrasi bengun, nharta, bhindi fry, arvi kofta, gosht sabz pullav, chicken hyderbadi, russian salad, khubani ka meetha, and imli chatni, for the table in summer heat

Bivi Ko Khush

If man is the head of the family woman is the neck, while taking vows promises are made to keep each other happy , but how this is not told

JI Uthe Hum

A complete novelette discusses marriages are life long commitments between two families, the spouses must be trustworthy, marina is shahayeb khan's daughter , the father rents out a portion of his house to surkhab , a bachelor , soon a marriage takes place between surkhaab and merinah, how can one so quickly get wedded to responsibilities, reliable person is he who can deal with his liabilities,

Nigahat Sima

Nigahat Sima talks to ghazala siddiqui-- That she finds beauty in everything including ugliest of things for they have all been created by almighty, there must be an inner eye to see through people"s minds to derive their characters, real lifesize , in stories she writes based on truth, never letting glamour overshadow them, it is also very important for women to be much understanding of specially their husbands' likes and dislikes, there are many urdu magazines published in her country but pakeeza anchal is the soul of urdu literature, drawing readers in good faith

June-Pakeeza Anchal

May allah almighty shower his mercy on all, inflation is rising, the national budget is passed, and family budgets have failed, hopefully readers would learn to cope with their intelligent living

Zamin Ke Baadal

Faridi shares his expertise -the rocket scientist tells him the clouds were specially artificially created to cover the sponge like moss that had changed colour, while experimenting with rocket engineering the rocket was loaded with acetic acid and amonia, the rocket crashed , scattering the residual all over the rocky island, the moss changed its colour , soon it was discovered it was a very good transmitter, their own voices were echoeing , transmitting and were heard from different directions

Akhri Farmayash

There is a christmas eve party in an office on fourteenth floor, its snowing outside, the crowd is warming up , laughter and fun is making everyone cheerful but Effi is planning to take a risk of her life, a chance to become a millionaire, using her boss who has been her ex man friend when he had been married , the first wife is dead, the second one is going steady with him, but effi needs to become rich, quick and enough , she has just six months roughly to live a good life, or does she?

Aseeb

An account of pure imagination by M A Raahat, Shahaab meets his grandmother lying in coma, taking her hand in his he sees a diamond ring that was not there before, it was the one he had managed to grab when some mysterious pair of hands had tried to stifle him to silence from retelling of the happenings in the house, he goes to meet the doctor , who believes through reading and reciting names of allah and quran hakim can give him peace of mind if he is confused , there may be other invisible creatures of almighty creator harmless or they would have by now destroyed shahaab, at night while sleeping he feels the murshid is instructing him to look for two holy sacred threads in the pile of books on the cupboard , and if murshid is gone shahaab should take them and burn them after twilight, in the morning his driver friend makes tea and looks rather pulled down for he had dreamt the murshid was calling him, they both drive up to the murshid"s place together to find him dead, there was a pile of books on the cupboard, and in the middle of them all were the sacred threads

Khwaab Azaadi

Shaukat Thanvi--Page 272-+May Huma-

I dreamt a dream of my freedom last night

I recall every moment of it bit by bit

I saw i was released of all painful chains

I felt I am just a living memory of it

Jarhit zadah

beautiful executed drama by H Iqbal- a crowded market place is a scene of action, confusion , shoot out , people run in all directions, just the blue eyed forty year old man knows he is the target, he takes cover hiding himself perfectly merging with the scattering crowd, he snatches the car keys from a driver and drove away as fast as he could, changes his clothes he reaches atif"s house who is not at home, the daughter of the family is about to leave home when the stranger asks to meet atif, on cell phone the stranger reveals his secret identity unnerving atif who is a guest at a friend's place, atif on phone instructs daughter to accomodate the guest in a special room, daughter feels something is very strange about the man, he looks fortish but his hands belong to a seventy year old man

Bagule

A metaphysical enchanting picture evoked in the minds of the readers by M A Raahat--hamaad and his friend are an insult to decency, the professor takes them to his magic world, diamonds sparkling tiny rainbow showers of lighted colours illuminating the decorated rooms furnished in iranian styles , raw gold lumps spilling out of cabinets charm the two men, they plan to murder the old professor, who is not overpowered and frightens them both by his appearance, sitting in a throne like chair in the attached room with his head bleeding and cut on his lap, the men flee from this fable like castle turning corners until they finally reach a door , opening it the man himself was waiting for them , there was no escaping from this professor, they were asked to do a certain job for him in turn they would get all the wealth they desire, but they will be instructed on the spot what must be done, and they have to reach a particular place with a weird name vadi gomati, or if they refuse his proposal that would be their end

Bezamin Beasmaan

Second part by Mahiuldin Nawaab--young unemplyed graduate nissar ahmned takes up a daily wager"s job, by the end of the day his pitiable condition evokes sympathy , the contractor raises him to a postion of a manager , who would generally see to desk work, after six months the construction work is over, worried about his old parents and marriageable sister at home nissar requests for some other job, a friend of the contractor is also there--murad bakhsh who needs a munshi-manager for his lands spread out over a ten mile area, , murad"s sister rani is married to the holy quran, but murad is scheming to get rid off her, he plans his new manager can give home tutions to rani and if they elope he could get married to a rich girl who would bring in added landed property worth over many millions and he won"t need to share his own with rani

Daraar

A life size projection by salim Farooqi, Nayim Ahmed is a son of an electronic engineer, grand son of a reputed hakim , finds himself facing charges of double murder in a court, having no defence lawer he is sent to prison, producing no relative he is told he will be hanged, in the cell a red capped another cell mate is incharge who divides inmates according to their being uneduated, educated or highly educated catogories, the incharge himself seems a multi millionaire a reason for being their superior, this man urges the innocent narrator to eat or he would die, insisting him to face problems, others could see apparantly what the judge"s eye had failed to notice, what had escaped his attention for lack of evidence that the narrator was a complete gentleman and innocent young man

Jaanleva

The perry mason of huma mirza amjad beg solves yet another murder case, zahid is a peon in khaan traders office in a multi sroreyed building, general manager khalid is found murdered in his chair in his office, found by his son, the car parked below was thought to be a casual parking by the watchman , he had checked all doors after office hours, he did not see the manager leaving but he claimed he had locked up all the doors, but the son of the murdered man found the door softly opening up to his slight touch, his father had been hit on the neck, on the right side, a clue to clear the name of mirza beg"s client zahid

Khudkesh

Illustrates meryam k khaan, life is stranger than fiction, every citizen of this world tells a different story of his life, no two people have the same life from beginning to end, jack is a contract killer brought to brazil by a rebellion group for anti state activities and to use another terrorist group"s name, he finds he is being followed, turning around he cant exactly pinpoint who is shadowing him but his heightened sixth sense is making him aware of being under observation, he gets into a carnival crowd, a woman in her makeshift shed allows him in, there jack on a table near the entrance sees a cup of water realising she is a fortuneteller belonging to a tribe whose job is to dress up in old fashioned clothes , long plaited many plaits swinging as she shook her head asked him to take a small stool if he wanted her help, jack wanting to escape his shadow companions asked her if she knew how to predict why she was asking him, annoyed her eyes turned red and she told him he would die neither on earth nor on water but in air, by his own hands, he laughed out as he had no intention of committing a suicide, she also revealed everything about his past so accurately from one killing to another that he was mystified , he could not have let her live after his exit

Parwaaz

By Tahir javed Mughal- a flight of social set up, story of secret passions, of hurts of separations, of sweetness of reunions, khawar is married to sheryar, daughter of a chaudhary of qalawala, an only child , knows her husband's attachments to hamid, his young widowed mother is paramour of khawar, follows him to hamid"s room, annoyed that her husband has broken the promise of never secretly visiting hamid , sheryar returns home, uncaring khawar attends to his daily routine , he is invited to a drinking dancing function, where poisned liquer is served , guests of chaudhary aziz are targetted, by their opponents, khawar feels raunak is suddenly changed , khawar also meets a wise old chaudhary friend who advises him to make up with his own wife , for their relationship is benefitial for their village progress, he goes to fetch his wife, whose father tells him about a pack of eight hounds he maintains for hunting, if one is lost immediately another replaces it, when his daugher was small she was frightened og four of them , they were shot down , this is a reason for some concern and disturbs khawar who is there to fetch his wife , for whose every fancy , her father can go to any extent

Kirchiyaan

Mac is a virologist researching on a peculiar virus to find its antidote, he gives up his research when he is very close to success, his life from his early child hood is motivated by his father , life is aimless without a positive purpose, , mac finds his purpose in maggy who dies of neglect and lack of treatment for she contacted the contaigeous virus he gave up his research on, guilty feeling makes him to look after sarah, but soon she also is affected by the same , what he had avided he turns to again to pursue his life purpose so others would live, others would benefit , and not suffer what he had to .

Sawaa Ser

A wordscape sketching team work , associating acheiving progress through dissassociation , mesh uses his girl friend jessica's position and her access to the state locker"s safe, she lets him because of her attachment to him, together they move out of the district, changing jessica"s appearnace for her pictures are with the office, they reach a remote out of season lake resort that is dried out , storms destroyed the lake, tourists did not turn up , it was a perfect place to hide

Taaj Mehel

Historical flash back by Dr Sajid Amjad-The banks of river jamuna resonated with women, the market in the fort was full of young women selling hand made items ranging from toys, embroideries, clothes, material, silk, to jewellery, the buyers were also women of different age groups, mina bazaar crowded on special days of every month only with women , dressed up for this very exclusive occasion , noisily happily seen everywhere, as the site was open to no-one , no other man was allowed except shehezadah khuram, teenage crown prince of jehengir, women gathered to admire him, he looked godly, handsome, perfect physique, charming, so royal , attractive, mesmerizing each and everyone who looked at him, he was the heart throb of all, he unaware of his own presence "s affect, crushed the hearts of women gathered there for the women"s market

Huma-May

Greetings to all readers of huma , to the friends of urdu, to the lovers of urdu literature, huma maintains its quality bringing many varieties of stories , the flight of imagination heightens the sharpness of everyone"s mind and senses, hopefully recharging their alertness

Muhabbet Humsafar Meri

Shab-e-gham tu hi mehmaan ban ke aa ja,

humare ghar ki virani to jaaye,

zera khul ke bhi ro lene do hum ko,

ke dil ki aag tak pani to jaaye,

O Sorrow, My Companion, be my guest one night

Remove my lonesomeness in solitude

Let me cry openly for a while

to kill the fire burning my heart-with water of tears and sigh

Rais Manzil is the center of buzzing activities, saidah and her invalid mother are dumped unsympathetically by the daughter in law , who is attached to her sister, scemes to cage saidah by getting her married off to a hateful odious man,

reza meets danya while he returns from his night shift back to rais manzil as danya is racing down getting late for college collides headlong agianst him, just a young girl bitten by romantic bug she feels may be hitting someone like this is love plans to make friends with his sister ,

Dini Masail

Each one is running a race in life , not satisfied fully with what one has, there is always some scope leaft for improvement, rich experiences , guidance by masters can be of help and useful , giving hope and showing a direction

allowing one to progress

The Wise Khalifah

A case in the court of the wise khalifah presented a horse ,each of the two men claimed it to be his, the rich merchant's version was that the horse was his, he had helped the beggar, the beggar said it was his, he was poorly because he fed all he earned to the horse, a horse does not speak man"s language, but the wosdom of khalifah could interpret the creature"s misery

Sheher-e Dil

Manaal loves her sister armaa, for her she drops her attitude , gets married to humza, so sandas can marry dayam, sands's brother shamir does not know who actually armaa is, for they are web friends, armaa, meets her new neighbour in shamir, is it revenge or is it his love for her that has brought him next door, like a fish dumped at the coast by the tide, surviving is important or being together with your loved one, or is it the breathing a neccessity

Mein Abdul Qadir Hun

Success means different things for different people, for abdul qadir it is efficiency, hardwork and intelligent decisions, for mira his mother success means taking over absolute control of others, of her own son by using hookers, taking absolute control of parties, of offices, of everone and everything she comes across, for the maulvi abdulqadir meets, success is accepting life as a blessing, gifts are blessings that bring joy, sons are blessings, prayers and patience are attributes of a state of blessedness

Jaan-e-Jaan Tu Jo Kahe

Nerghis is a self centred woman, she needs to be the center of attention for all, her daughter zertashya is reached marriageable age, instead of caring for her daughter "s emotional needs, instead of feeling for her own husband and his family, instead of caring for her brother and parental family nerghis wants every other person to take her for granted as she herself takes herself for granted, unwittingly but her daughter is more mature and sensible than she herself , whenever she is ignored she feels she is insulted and leaves home annoyed , anger always on the tip of her nose, impatience runs in

her veins

Aangan Ki Dhup

Young girls are like sunshine that brings life and cheer in homes, after a point the sun starts to decline, timely action are destined to unlock happiness, very ambitious women or their over ambitious family can influence the judgement of their daughters who have a choice to decide whether they want to marry or not or whom they want to choose as their life partners, it is companionship they seek, men need homemakers, and not wall builders between hearts of family members, after all a moment of joy is worth hundreds of years, a moment of love is worth more than hundreds of years of life

Pul-e-sarat

The story continues beautifully explaining the difference subtlly between protocol and indulgence, elina is gratifying her desires of smoking and getting herself drunk, as a new bride she has some duties she neglects, on the other asad is married to mamoona , he is a rich exporter , he wants his wife to meet his business associates , inviting them home to dine, he serves wine to his foreign delagates, which is a protocol not indulgence, but the family have slightly rigid ideas on that

Le Ke Khushiyon Ka Paigham

By Shahinah Rafya Reza, --Marriages are formalities permitted by law, but what law can not do is to make spouses compatible, willing and understanding, Nurina is engaged to mikail , for two is have elapsed , she waits eagerly for his return from abroad, they are exchanging messages on the internet, but still he would like to before marriage go dating with her or change his mind, law has a provision for both partners but how can one get to become likeminded, heart wants the best but mind plans even better

Atharah March

A floral description of life , family friendships, youth, romance and practicalities that one has to deal with, by seema manaf, --Haarish meets his cousin at a flower show, with her is her friend nastaran, a product of high class, rich, educated, used to an easy life, comfortable lap of luxury made her soft and carefree , an only offspring of devoted parents, harish becomes a prospective suitor sending her every other day bouquets of white roses annonymously, till she got tired of them and he then reveals his identity, she is free with her parents and friends, but they dont have time for her , to be attentive to her or pamper her, she gets married to harish who after marriage turns out a middle class man with limited source of income who cant throw his hard earned money on everyday flowers and hotel meals for her as she can"t cook, desparate she returns home to her mother"s open welcoming arms , who had prophesied she would soon get shattered and disoriented by her romance, but there is a twist to every story

Taqdir Hai Humsafar

Muqadas Mashaal--In her story-- for Rafya her life is a journey , every destination becomes a milestone, at a college Fun Fair she with her classmates makes fun of Mobi, the only rich son of one of the most wealthiest businesman in town, who is meek, shy , lacking self confidence, his problem started when his mother saifina died leaving him to his very domineering unpleasant step mother, when the father realises his mistake he gives more attention to his son, who changes his attitude, and gets married to the same naughty girl, but destiny has something differently planned, life is inseparable from one"s destiny

Tere Ishq Ki Beil

Writes rahat Jabin - strong bondings between partners depend entirely on the molecular structural base of trust and symbiotically mutually equal willingness to cementing it or it dissolves like a bubble in air , Faryaal a student of mass communication doing her masters degree, and giving part time home

tutions finds she stands no where in life without competing, she forgets some things are meant for personal enjoyment , they are blessings in disguise, sikander a wealthy neighbour marries her for her exquisite beauty, but she loses her self esteem , maintaining her vainity and ego , nurturing her inflated self , falling down to point zero from where she had started to climb up, parasites use others , but relationships are not for competitions , she takes one year to realsise her mistake, how she leads her life is thought provoking, whether she would repeat her mistakes or correct them

Shauhar Ko Khush Rakhein

Any wise woman knows if her child is hurt she is affected, family is a unit, a good wife is supportive of her husband, she would never sergregate the father from their children depriving each other of their sentimental emotional needs, she would let her husband be the guide, even if she has to implement all plans , run the household , but she with her right understanding keeps the family together

Aur Kuch Khwaab

Curtain raises on a stage act on anarkali listening intently stoney faced to salim's heavy dialogues dripping with meanings of love and life, damyan shah suri and his class mate anahita beg are playing main roles, the serial by ashna kausar sardar presents the love theme --mirror loses its own identity , by reflecting the self image of the person who comes in contact, life is a mirror , each individual reflects his persona influencing others , life is a reality , love is a dream , incapacitating one who falls prey to its tightening grip

Fun-E-Zaiqa

pamper yourself,give yourself a treat each day this month with kofta korma, shaahi cheese potato curry, arvi la jawaab, murgh taqa masalah, khoya almond squares, sabziyon ka achaar, sometimes invite a neaighbour who envies you

Wazaaif

every mortal needs some guidance from a superior, from the experiences of others , who are sincere, truthful correct and righteous, reading quranic texts gives anwers to the faithful followers

Khuda Parast Ghulam

There was a slave , bought by the merchant, who was ready to sell him off at halg price for the slave could not do a thing, except pray, but hazrat abad allahdin mubarak buys him at double the amount, the slave asks his new master why he was bought when he was not of any value , not being in a condition to serve him, the hazrat replied he was bought to be his new master"s master because there in the mosque he had witnessed the slave"s prayers answered

Khazinah Akhlaq

the emperor wanted himself be pleased, revered higher than all, be praised above others, but mardmonin a faithful believer of allah almighty was unable to change his loyalty, his thinking and finally who is the protector?

Ism Ya Baseer

Man is by nature ungrateful, he remebers to eat, breathe, demand, complain, but he forgets to remeber Allah almighty who grants all his wishes, who is the creator of the whole universe, reading quranic texts can open the eyes of wisdom truth and other dark corners of mind of a practioner

Sabz Aur Surkh Mirchein

green and dry red chillies belong to the greens, black pepper to garam masala category, their uses beside adding hot flavour to food is figuratively to be an irritant, whoever is jealous is burning and snappy

Apne Bachon Ko

Present times are crushing , pressing parents to run a race against time, against others, be more competitive or lose their position and lag behind, but are they thoughtful that their children for whom they are ready to do anything , everything for their happiness and secure future, those kids are also under going lots of external pressure?

Itne Woh Kab Hamare The

Suhail Khan"s short complete novelette--Arafah is getting married to Rataaj , all his friends want to party to tease the girls who had purposely not invited them the previous evening to their function, the huge palatial mansion in goa is full of noisy guests, neighbourhood is also involved in the boisterous arrangements, but arafah is missing something, the girl next door to rataaj"s , who was so beautiful refreshing like a jasmine flower, though rataaj is the epitome of the idealistic bride his parents desire

Dua

Allah is close by surah baqr, ayat 186, he is listening to you, watching you, ask him for what you want, , it will be granted, the correct manner is taught in quran majid, hadis sharif also is informative, prayer is the salt of worship, without which one cant get connected to the eternal source of light

Ushna Khaan

Ghazala Siddiqui interviews visiting beautician famous specialist for skin treatment, she is the middle daughter of an army officer, all were raised on honest hardworking income, her sisters are highly qualified doctors of medicine and research, ushna khaan because of her early marriage , finding herself in different circumstances dropped the idea of becoming a doctor , with her inlaws support persued her training in a field that has with her loving family's support brought her status, name, fame, education, popularity , maintaining quality substance is doubling her life quality as she is capable to deal extremely positively and professionally in a specialist"s manner with her clients,

May-Pakeeza Anchal

Monthly magazine pakeeza anchal was launched when it was smelt that anti cultural, anti social, virus epidemically was destroying the minds of eastern women folk, it is an effort to make the modern educated woman aware of -beauty of pure thought, attracions of good sensible dressing up, fragrance of eastern cultural family set up, if the woman individually is not strong, the family , further the society , and the nation on the whole is effected silently

Zemin Ke Baadal

Sometimes life quality slows down, moments freeze, Faridi telephonically instructs hamid and qasim on board to break their journey at madrid, hamid is more than surprised at qasim's strange behaviour for qzsim is not an actor nor a disguise master, he suddenly starts behaving like a woman, hamid is also curious to know why qasim is chosen what his mission is, , the conference in north america on zeroland is going to change everyone"s thinking

Jaaye Panaah

Michelle is left a note on her kitchen table for her husband that she is going away , its all over between them, signed sheil, a reason for concern for the narrator, who discusses the matter with a police woman detective who disgrees with him , for in his opinion michelle is abducted , she had never before signed as sheil, but the detective in charge claimed this was common practice for all those wanting to lead their life afresh with a new name, the narrator believes she is lured , or is it he who is being lured ? menacingly leading the reader to a dead end from where there is no escape