Husna Aur Husna Ara/حسنہ اور حسن آراء

by Umera Ahmed

It was published as a collection of four short stories Ab Mera Intezar Kar, Bas Ik Daagh-e-Nidaamat and Aaj aur Kal and Husna aur Husan Aara.
The novella Husna aur Husan Aara (English: Husna and Husan Aara) chronicles the upheaveal in Dil Shaad's life, a well-bred woman who takes major pride in belonging to a noble family, by the unexpected entrance of a beautiful young woman named Husan Aara.
It exposes the mentality of our society that compartmentalizes people according to their backgrounds and doesn't provide any prospect of repentence.

144 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Umera Ahmed is one of the most widely-read and popular Urdu fiction novelist and screenplay writer of this era.
She completed her Masters in English Literature from Murray College, Sialkot. Later she became an English language lecturer for the students of O and A levels at Army Public College, Sialkot. However she left the job a few years back in order to devote her full attention to writing.
She began her writing career in 1998 at a quite young age. Her initial stories were published in monthly urdu digests and later came out in the form of books. She has written about 16 books , comprising of complete novels and compilations of short stories. However it was her novel "Peer-e-Kaamil (S.A.W.W)" which became her identity.

Reviews

[Rabia Baloch · Rating 4 out of 5]

Husna aur Husan Ara, 3rd book of Umera Ahmed I've finished in a week. The words are not enough to describe Umera Ahmed's work. This book is her another great work that consist of 4 different stories, Husna or Husan Ara, Ab mera intezar kar, Bs ik daagh a nadamat, Aj or kal. But the most amazing, breathtaking is Bs ik daagh a nadamat. This one has no match it was just mind blowing.

[Shabana Mukhtar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh my god!
What a beautiful story and such strong message in less than forty pages.

[Palwasha Here · Rating 4 out of 5]

چاروں کہانیاں بہت سبق آموز اور کچھ یوں لکھی گئی ہیں کہ پڑھنا شروع کرو تو وقفہ لینے کو دل ہی نہیں چاہتا۔ عمیرہ احمد کی جتنی تحریریں پڑھیں یہی اندازہ ہوا کہ مجھے ان کی بہت سی خوبیوں میں سے ایک یہ بہت پسند ہے کہ بہت ڈائریکٹ لکھتی ہیں۔ گھما پھرا کر گھسیٹ کر الجھا کر نہیں۔
حسنہ اور حسن آراء بہت ہی اثر انگیز تحریر ہے۔ ایک چھوٹی سی فیملی کی زندگی میں اچانک در آنے والی تبدیلی۔ سبھی کا ردعمل دلچسپ تھا۔ کردار نگاری بہت اچھی کی گئی۔
اب میرا انتظار کر۔ یہ ایک سید گھرانے سے تعلق رکھنے والی لڑکی کی کہانی ہے اس نے بھی دل پہ ایک گہرا اثر چھوڑا۔ کہانی سنانے کا انداز کافی اچھا تھا۔
بس اک داغِ ندامت۔ یہ میں نے بہت پہلے پڑھی تھی لیکن اسقدر بہترین تحریر ہے کہ مجھے پوری تفصیل سے یاد رہی۔ اس میں ایک ساتھ کئی بہترین پیغامات دیے گئے ہیں۔ مرد اور عورت دونوں کے لیے۔ لیکن اچھی بات یہ ہے کہ بہت دلچسپ بھی ہے۔ اگر رائٹر محض نصیحتوں کا ڈھیر لگا دے تو کوئی بھی نہیں پڑھنا چاہے گا تحریر کا دلچسپ ہونا شرط ہے۔
آج اور کل۔ یہ خطوط کی صورت میں لکھی گئی تحریر ہے۔ یہ ہم ڈائجسٹ اور ناول پڑھنے والوں کے لیے خصوصاََ ایک اہم تحریر ہے۔ رائٹرز کو لے کر کیسے ہماری پسندیدگی، جذبات اور احساسات بدلتے ہیں ان سب کے اتار چڑھاؤ کی کہانی ہے۔
سبھی تحریریں دلچسپ اور دل میں گھر کر لینے کی صلاحیت رکھتی ہیں۔

[Omama. · Rating 5 out of 5]

A story of two girls; one belongs to a noble family, and the other is a Tawaif . In this society, where Twaifs are considered a filth, this story highlights the morality issues and depicts the notorious notions of people, who compartmentalizes everyone according to their religion, gender, passions, work, compulsions, necessities and whatnot? People are considered human beings at the end. This novel has a really good lesson that we should give every person a chance; to live and to breathe, according to his own desires and passions.

[Alina Raza Hussain · Rating 5 out of 5]

I don't know how I bought this book. Because i often see the name of a book before reading it then i read it's summary and if the name and summary are interesting then I start reading the book. But before reading this book, I didn't like its name, but still, thinking that it was written by Umerah Ahmed, I bought it.And when I started reading this without knowing it's summary, I came to know that this novel is the collection of 4 stories.And as I read those four stories, I realized why I hadn't read them before. The four stories in this book were instructive and I am glad I learned a lot from this little book.And what I learned from reading them, I would definitely like to discuss here.
The first story was "Husna aur Husn Ara" and after reading it I learned that the assumptions we make about people are not always accurate. Sometimes the people we think are bad, do so much for us that we can't even think. And the people we trust the most can break our trust.
" Ab mera intezaar kar" this story taught me that how single person can break dreams of many people for his own benefit and how many lives can be saved if we put our ego aside.
. "Bus ik daagh-e-nidamat" was also a great story and the lesson in this story was that If a person ever does bad to us and then regrets it and apologizes, we should forgive him. Because when someone does something bad to us so there is some fault in us too, it is us who give others a chance to do wrong.
"Aaj aur kal" This ten page story also contains a lot. And this story teaches us that nothing lasts forever and if we are anything today, we will be replaced tomorrow and this is how the world will go on.

[Saiqa Jutt · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book in this book 3 stories are write in first one baz kuch log itnya achya hotya hain ka jb wo zindge sa chala Jain phr unke qadar hoti kuch kahmosh hoka be logo pa ahsan kr jatya hain in second one zindge ma bht see hasraty rha jati ha har dafa jasa hum sochtya Hain zindge hmra sath wasa ni krti hmesha kuch adhori kuwaishya rha jati Hain in third galtya insano sa hoti Hain orat ko chya wo maf krday mard zat ko

[Mehrose · Rating 4 out of 5]

 Husna aur Husan Ara, 3rd book of Umera Ahmed I've finished in a week. The words are not enough to describe Umera Ahmed's work. This book is her another great work that consist of 4 different stories, Husna or Husan Ara, Ab mera intezar kar, Bs ik daagh a nadamat, Aj or kal. But the most amazing, breathtaking is" Bs ik daagh a nadamat". This one has no match it was just mind blowing💕

[ف · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ajeeeeeb! Tbvh.

[Yusra · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.75 ⭐

[Iqra · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think these stories are more of a social lesson rather than complete novellas, and as Umera mentioned herself, they should be treated as Popular Fiction, not literature.
That doesn't lessen the beauty of this in anyway, though. I loved all stories in this book, especially the second and last one ( which is why I finished it overnight, haha!). Would recommend to my pakis who want a quick and inspiring read!

[KNShaikh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Considering as one of the old books of Umera Ahmed...it reflected that a big writer is coming. Simple and beautiful showing lot of emotions

[Nazish Islam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ankhon dekha or kano suna bhi dhoka ho sakta hai!!

[Muhammad Ahmed · Rating 5 out of 5]

بہت اچھی، یاد گار۔