Saddi Yaari SubhanAllah By Sajeela Nisar

About this novel

Saddi Yaari SubhanAllah (Urdu: ساڈی یاری سبحان اللہ) by Sajeela Nisar is a light, funny Urdu novel about four inseparable friends and their mischief. Shayan, Sufyan, Asim and Shaheer are best friends, and their yaari mostly consists of getting each other into trouble.

It opens at night. Shayan, Shani to his friends, is sound asleep in his room when three figures sneak past the chowkidar, creep up the stairs and stop outside his door. On the count of three they all jump onto his bed at once, and with a loud crack the bed gives way. Shani crawls out from under them groaning that only donkeys land like that. The other three are in fits of laughter, and the bickering starts before anyone has even got up off the floor.

چار دوست، ٹوٹا ہوا بیڈ، اور ایسی یاری جو ہر شرارت میں ساتھ دیتی ہے۔

That sets the tone. The four can’t stop teasing each other, and the funniest moments come when they turn out to be scared of the girls in their lives. Shaheer admits his fiancée won’t spare him if she finds out where he is tonight, Asim says the same about his, and they make a solemn pact that nobody will tell. Of course, Shani has already had one of his shaitani ideas: a phone rings, it’s on speaker, and the friends realise who is on the other end.

Sajeela Nisar (who also writes as Miral) keeps the chapters full of quick dialogue and banter, and the title, a Punjabi phrase for “our friendship, praise be to God”, says what the novel is really about. At 202 pages it’s an easy, cheerful read about friendship first, with romance following behind.

You can read Saddi Yaari SubhanAllah online here or download the complete PDF for free. Sajeela Nisar’s other novels on the site include Tere Ishq Mein Pagal, Tery Ishq Main Hari and Darinda (Adam Khoor). See all of them on the Sajeela Nisar novels page.