Tu Kitni Masoom Hai By Aymen Nauman

About this novel

Tu Kitni Masoom Hai (Urdu: تو کتنی معصوم ہے) by Aymen Nauman is an Urdu novel about two families and two girls whose marriages others decide. Israa’s uncle settles her nikah with his son Shah Hamdan, and Hijab’s brother Sameer begs his best friend to marry her.

It opens with Sameer pleading with his friend Bashar. “Meri behan bohat masoom hai.” He’s in serious trouble, he says. Even if Bashar can’t accept Hijab with his heart, couldn’t he take her in for a while? Bashar refuses gently: Hijab is far too young, and he can’t do something so unjust to her.

معصوم سی دو لڑکیاں، اور بڑوں کے کیے ہوئے فیصلے۔

Then we meet Israa, who has no one in the world but her mother. Her father, Mustafa, the son of a village wadera, married Qudsia Begum, an educated girl he met at university, against his family’s wishes and despite their threats. A few years later a car accident took him away, leaving mother and daughter alone. His elder brother, Shah Muqeem, then decided Israa would be married to his son Shah Hamdan, and Qudsia Begum, with no one to turn to, couldn’t say no. Now Israa works in a newspaper office and looks after her mother, whose health has been fragile since a heart attack.

Aymen Nauman also fills in Sameer’s home. His father, Safdar Sahib, died of heart failure when Sameer was thirteen and Hijab only two. Sameer is the son of his father’s first wife, who left after a khula, but his stepmother Aneela Begum raised both children with equal love. Hijab grew up lively, protected and so innocent that the rest of the world simply passed her by. Bashar and Sameer became friends years ago, after Sameer pulled Bashar from a car crash and got him to hospital.

The PDF is 475 pages, a family drama about decisions made for girls who were never asked.

You can read Tu Kitni Masoom Hai online here or download the complete PDF for free. More by Aymen Nauman: Hararat-E-Jaan, Sitamgar Ko Hum Aziz, Muhabbat Barsadena Tu, on the Aymen Nauman novels page.