Ishq Ka Ain, a Great Novel

Aleem Ul Haq Haqqi is a big name of Urdu Adab. He contributed a great work for it. His field is Novel writing. He writes for many digests of Urdu, like Suspense Digest. He wrote many novels, but his most famous and successful novel is Ishq Ka Ayn (عشق كا عين).

The novel is a story about Ilahi Bakhsh, a poor person from Abbottabad, the beautiful valley of Pakistan, and Sadi (Sadia) a rich girl from Karachi. Ilahi Bakhsh goes from Abbotabad to Karachi to earn money and starts a job of loader in Karachi.

One day he sees Sadi and falls in love with her at first sight. (Later he comes to know that Sadi had also fallen in love with him at first sight.) In a consequence of an accident he is appointed as a driver in Sadi’s family and his job becomes taking Sadi to college and Picking her back home.

In Sadi’s family everybody likes him except Sadi’s mother as she realizes their emotion for each other. She was against his appointment as a driver but Sadi’s father did not listen to her, but she leaves no chance to insult and humiliate him.

He is not much educated but he is fond of reading and there are many books in his room in the servant quarter of Sadi’s house.

Sadi wants Ilahi Bakhsh to leave the job and house because she does not like to see him humiliated and insulted by her mother, but Ilahi Bakhsh continues his job and bear all the insulting behavior of Sadi’s mother. Sadi starts showing him that she is involved with other guys of her college so for that Ilahi Bakhsh dare to ask her hand from her father or leave the job but he does nothing.

One day her mother’s ring is missed and she blames Ilahi Bakhsh and later it proved wrong and the ring is found in the drawer of her dressing table. And Sadi takes extremely bold step. She calls Ilahi bakhsh in her room and asks him to sleep with her. That was very shocking for Ilahi Bakhsh and at that time he leaves the job and Karachi as well. He returns Abbotabad.

Now the most emotional part of the story begins. He starts business of selling vegetables and fruits in Abbottabad. He adopts a unique and the most successful way of business, which is based on Islamic teachings. He gets married with Hajira, daughter of his teacher Master Gee, in Abbottabad and has three sons.

His Ishq (Love) with Sadi was Ishq Majazi (the love with human) but turn into Ishq Haqeeqi (the love with Allah) and he becomes a saint and his dua (pray) is approved by Allah Almighty.

The book is very interesting and when one starts reading it, it is quite hard to leave it before finishing the book.