Rishtay Sang Muhabbato Kay By Bisma Khan

About this novel

Rishtay Sang Muhabbaton Kay (Urdu: رشتے سنگ محبتوں کے) by Bisma Khan is an Urdu family romance about a girl who refuses her Nana’s choice. Arij flatly refuses to marry Shah Zain, the man her Nana has chosen for her, and her mother Khadija Farooq refuses to listen.

“Kya? Us Shah Zain se? Ammi, aisa nahi ho sakta!” Arij begs her mother to stop Nana from turning an old friendship into a rishta. Khadija tells her not to talk nonsense about her own grandfather. Shah Zain is running the family business, and Nana knows him well. Arij points out that she’s a lawyer and he’s a businessman, so they have nothing in common. Khadija tells her that profession makes no difference, she has already said yes to Nana, and she’ll hear no more about it.

نانا کا فیصلہ، ماں کی ضد، اور ایک وکیل لڑکی جو ہار ماننے کو تیار نہیں۔

Arij’s brother Aman, just back from university, wanders in and can’t resist joining the argument, so Arij turns on him too. She tries another tack: why not marry off her younger sister Abeera first? But Abeera, who is studying to become a doctor, has already told their mother she won’t hear of marriage until she qualifies. Khadija loses her temper and Arij stamps out of the room.

Bisma Khan then lays out the family. Yasir Sahib had three children: Yaqoob, the eldest; Khadija; and the youngest, Jahangir Khan. So the Nana whose word Khadija won’t go against is Yasir Sahib himself, and these are the rishtay of the title: a family where the elders decide and the young are expected to agree.

It’s a 326-page novel about family pressure, arranged matches and a heroine with a mind of her own.

You can read Rishtay Sang Muhabbaton Kay online here or download the complete PDF for free. More by Bisma Khan: The Night Stalkers, Roshan Sawera and Ik Sitara Kehkashan Ho Giya, all on the Bisma Khan novels page.