Manto on Partition: (English); Translated from Urdu

  Manto on Partition: (English)

(Translated from Urdu)

14th August was celebrated when I was in Bombay. Both Pakistan and India had been declared independent. People were immensely happy yet killings and arson did not stop. Cries of Pakistan Zindabad(Long live Pakistan) along side of Hindustan zindabad (Long live India) rent the air. One could see the Congress Tricolour as also the Islamic flag hoisted side by side. People shouted slogans in favour of both Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru and Qaid Azam Mohd Ali Jinnah in bazars as well as on roads. A person was at a loss to understand whether he belonged to India or Pakistan and whose blood was it that was continuously flowing on the streets? Where would those carcasses be buried or cremated whose sacred religious flesh had been eaten away by the carnivorous beasts? Now that we were free who would be our slaves? When we were slaves we used to think about freedom, now that we are free it would be unimaginable to think what slavery looks like. Yet the question arises whether we are really free or not? Both  Hindus and Muslims are being killed mercilessly in large numbers. How and Why...? These questions have different answers - the Indian answer, the Pakistani answer, and the English answer. Every one has an answer but fact remains if one tried to find out the real truth no answer could satisfy. Some one says you can find an answer in the ruins of Indian Mutiny. Another person does not agree and says that you can find an answer in the rule of East India Company. A third person moves further backwards in History and seeks an answer in the Mughal rule. Every one is going back into the past while only Criminals and Vandals are moving  ahead rapidly to write a bloody history of iron and blood which will be matchless in the entire history of mankind.

India has attained freedom. Pakistan too has come into existence immediately after being declared free. Still, however, the man in both these countries remains a slave...slave of prejudice....slave of religious fundamentalism....slave of bestiality and barbarianism.

Muthi Bhar Ret & Sawaalمٹھی بھر ریت اور سوال : (Urdu/English); Afsancha; افسانچہ ; Ministory

Muthi Bhar Ret & Sawaal:    مٹھی بھر ریت اور سوال 

Afsancha; افسانچہ ; Ministory

اور 

                        

Muthi Bhar Ret

Kal mujhe na jaane kya soojhi ki samander ke saahil par tahalte tahlte achanak ruk gaya. Joote Utare aur wahin par baith gaya.
Nikhat ki bahut yaad aa rahi thi. Umar bhar saath nibhane ka waada karke woh na jaane kahan kho gayi. Palat kar bhi nahi dekha. Aur ab main hoon aur meri tanhai.
Tafreehan main ne kai baar apne hath mein ret uthai aur usse mehfooz karne ke liye muthi band kar li. Lekin ret thi ki ungliyon ke beech mein se phisalti chali gayi aur bar bar meri muthi khali hoti gayi.
Mere peeche chand ghairmulki sayah apne uryan jasmon mein sooraj ki tawanayi qaid karne ki koshish kar rahe the jab ki saamne chote chote bache football khelne mein mashgool the. Samander ki maujen musalsal sahil ke sath sar patak rahi thein.
Itne mein aik choti si masoom ladki bheek mangne ki khatir mere samne khadi ho gayi aur apne hath phailane lagi. Main jhallahat mein us par baras padha," Jao yahan se, tum aur koi kam kyun nahi karti. Tum logon ko bheek mangne ke siwa aur kuch nahi aata hai."
Dafa'atan mujhe yaad aya ki company mein chhatai ki wajah se guzashta do saal se main khud bhi berozgar hoon. Postgraduate hone ke bawajood koi kaam nahi milta. Nikhat bhi isi wajah se mujhe chor kar chali gayi thi.
Mujhe aisa laga jaise woh ladki keh rahi ho, "Kaam nahi milta hai na mile, bheek to maang sakte ho."

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(Tafreehan;Just for leisure, mehfooz; secure, ghairmulki sayah; foreign tourists,Uryan ;naked, tawanayi;energy,mashgool; busy,jhallaht; annoyance, dafa'atan;Suddenly)

                                                                         

                                

Sawaal

Train mein safar ke dauran aik musaafir doosre musaafir ko yeh samjha raha tha ki nafarmani ke sabab Adam ko bahisht se nikala gaya tha.
Apni dharti se ukhdi hui, diabetes se murjhayi hui, aik Kashmiri Panditani, jo apni umar se kahin zyada boodhi lag rahi thi, apne pati Naath ji se bar bar aik hi sawaal pooch rahi thi,
"Mana Adam se Gunah sarzad hua tha lekin hum kis gunah ki paadash mein apni jannat se mehroom kar diye gaye."

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(bahisht;paradise, nafarmaani;disobedience, mehroom; thrown out of)

Jago, جاگو (Urdu); افسانہ ; Afsana; Short Story

 Jago:  جاگو 

 Afsana;افسانہ ; Short Story

Jurm جرم, : (Urdu/English); Afsancha ; افسانچہ ; Ministory.

 Jurm; جرم  

Afsancha; افسانچہ ; Ministory.

Jurm

Park ke bench par baitha aik Padri ghair Isai ko duniya ke zahoor ki kahani samjhate hue keh raha tha ki Adam ke do bete paida hue the. Habel aur Qabel. Charwaha Habel barha hi aabid aur ita'at pasand tha jabki dehqaan Qabel badtainat aur jaraim pasand tha. Chinachi Ishwar ne Habel ki qurbani pasand ki, is liye Qabel ne gusse mein aakar Habel ko maar dala. Magar is ke baad woh logon ke jazba-e-inteqam se khauf zada ho gaya aur Ishwar se prarthana karne laga ki usko ma'af karde. Ishwar ne us ki jaan baksh di.

"Is ka yeh matlab nikla ki hum sab us jarayim pesha Qabel ki aulad hain." Samaeh pooch baitha.

Paas hi doosre bench par baitha hua aik dehariya man hi man main soch raha tha ki Ishwar bhi ajeeb shai hai. Bechare nihate Habel ke qatl ke samay mahz tamashayi bana raha aur phir jab mujrim se badla lene ki baari aa gayi to us ko apni hikmat-e-amli se saaf bacha liya.

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(Habel-Abel,Qabel-Cain,Aabid aur ita'at pasand-faithful,dehqan-farmer,badtainat-vicious,jazbaeinteqam-wrath,samaeh-listener,dehariya-atheist,shai-thing,hikmateamli-policy)

سچ کی تلاش اور نیکی Such Ki Talash & Neki: (Urdu/English); Afsancha; Ministory

Such Ki Talash & Neki:سچ کی تلاش اور نیکی 

 Afsancha; افسانچہ ; Ministory

Such ki Talash

Tum samajhte ho ki tumhare hath mein jo saheefa hai woh aakhri such hai.
Main samajhta hun ki mere mushif se barha such aur koi nahi.
Tumhare such aur mere such ke darmiyan kitna tazaad hai.

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(saheefa/mushif-Holy scripture; Tazaad-difference)

  Neki

Neki kar darya mein daal.
Neki do qism ki hoti hai.
Adh mare zahreele saanp ko doodh pila kar phir se tandrust-o- tawaana bana de. Woh kabhi na kabhi is ka ajar zaroor dega.Bhale ki umeed mat rakhna kyunki yeh uski khislat mein shamil hai hi nahi.  Albata bahut mumkin hai ki woh mustaqbil mein tumhare baal bachon ko zaroor dus lega.
Doosre qism ki neki bhi hoti hai. Saanp ko kuchal kar apne baal bachon ko bacha le.

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(tawaana-strong; Ajar-repay,reward; khislat-nature;mustaqbil-future)