短篇小说（阿夫萨纳） · 1922
前两章免费贵妇们的眼泪
بیگمات کے آنسو
赫瓦贾·哈桑·尼扎米
1857年兵变的故事。霍加·哈桑·尼扎米寻访莫卧儿王朝最后的王子与公主们——他们被逐出红堡，抛进烈火中的德里——让他们亲口讲述自己的遭遇：一位当了旅馆管家的王子，在集市上乞讨的公主们，巴哈杜尔·沙的一个女儿。此书在作者生前一再重印，是乌尔都语散文中最温柔动人的篇章。此处全文译出，并附作者1930年的后记；序言与第一个故事可免费阅读。
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短篇小说（阿夫萨纳）
前两章免费Chughtai ke Afsane (Chughtai's Stories)
چغتائی کے افسانے
Mirza Azim Beg Chughtai
Seven comic pieces by Mirza Azim Beg Chughtai (1895-1941), the best-loved Urdu humorist between the wars and elder brother of Ismat Chughtai. A young law graduate who loathes betel-chewers insults a fellow passenger on the train to Agra and discovers that the man is his examiner; a grazed hand, bandaged for fear of tetanus, draws so many questions that its owner starts inventing crocodiles and cobras; a new telephone becomes a weapon against a shoe shop that half the town rings to ask the price of boots; a schoolboy eleven, more interested in the refreshment tent than the game, beats a regiment of Highlanders by sheer cheek; and a set of sketches of bullocks. With two essays in which Chughtai mocks the self-styled story-writers of his day and explains, half in jest, how he wrote his own stories. Complete Urdu text with a facing English translation, introduction and glossary. Cite as: Mirza Azim Beg Chughtai, Chughtai ke Afsane, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/chughtai-ke-afsane. The first two chapters are free to read.
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前两章免费Yildirim ke Afsane (Stories and Sketches of Sajjad Haidar Yildirim)
یلدرم کے افسانے
Sajjad Haidar Yildirim
Ten stories, sketches and comic essays by Sajjad Haidar Yildirim (1880-1943), the Aligarh writer who learnt Turkish, brought the romantic short story into Urdu, and was the father of Qurratulain Hyder. A heart writes its autobiography; a cock sparrow mocks the hypocrisy of human lovers; a writer begs to be saved from his friends; a girl raised on an island of flowers, kept from all knowledge of men, grows weary of paradise. A doctor marries the lady doctor all Hyderabad slanders; a betrayed wife walks into the house of the courtesan who has taken her husband; and two school friends, unhappily married in 1925, one to a belching lover of theatre songs and one to a silent engineer who plays cards, write each other letters on what marriage ought to be. Complete Urdu text from Wikisource with a facing English translation, introduction and glossary. Cite as: Sajjad Haidar Yildirim, Yildirim ke Afsane, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/yildirim-ke-afsane. The first two chapters are free to read.
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前两章免费Saras ki Tarik-ul-Watani (The Cranes Leave Their Homeland): An Allegory
سارس کی تارک الوطنی
Rashid ul Khairi
A pair of sarus cranes, the Indian birds famous for lifelong faithfulness, decide to leave their homeland for ever because man has come too near. The female pleads for man, the maker of fields and orchards; the male answers with what he has seen of him: a prince who stabs the wife he once adored, a rich woman who forbids her wet nurse to suckle her own baby, and a pious-looking elder brother who swears an oath on God and then has his younger brother exiled for a village. Called 'the first symbolic story in the Urdu language', this allegory by Rashid ul Khairi (1868-1936), 'the painter of sorrow', turns the 'noblest of creatures' into the basest. Complete Urdu text (Urdu Wikisource) with a facing English translation, introduction and glossary. Cite as: Rashid ul Khairi, Saras ki Tarik-ul-Watani, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/saras-ki-tarik-ul-watani. The first two chapters are free to read.
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前两章免费Gohar-e-Maqsood (The Pearl of Desire): Two Tales
گوہر مقصود
Rashid ul Khairi
Two tales by Rashid ul Khairi (1868-1936), 'the painter of sorrow', published in Lahore in 1918. In 'The Fairy of Khayalistan' a fairy banished from the Land of Imagination may return only if she brings the king the best thing in the world; year after year, when the wall of fairyland opens at Nauroz, she brings what she has found among men: a reformer's first drop of blood, a divorced young wife's last breath, a mother's tear, the flood that drowned a woman who would not break purdah, a slighted little girl's tear, and at last the dying breath of a faithful wife. In 'In Search of the Ruby' a young Delhi widow loses her only surviving son at a family celebration and searches for him for twelve years, through suspicion, nightmare and the forests of the Vindhyachal, until he finds her at the altar of a goddess. Complete Urdu text (Urdu Wikisource, checked against the 1918 Dar-ul-Isha'at Punjab edition, archive.org dli.ernet.409249) with a facing English translation, introduction and glossary. Cite as: Rashid ul Khairi, Gohar-e-Maqsood, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/gohar-e-maqsood. The first two chapters are free to read.
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前两章免费1857年纪事
۱۸۵۷ء کی تحریریں
赫瓦贾·哈桑·尼扎米
《贵妇们的眼泪》的姊妹篇：霍加·哈桑·尼扎米另外十一篇关于莫卧儿德里陷落的文字，从未收入那部名著。托钵僧皇帝巴哈杜尔·沙在离开红堡的那一夜交出圣物；一封以他的口吻写给威尔士亲王的祝福信；一位耳聋的王子推着板车运砖，站上治安法官的公堂；一位以割草为生的皮尔；一位在报馆扫地的王子；两位身陷囹圄的王子；绿衣女子的战斗。全文译出；前两篇可免费阅读。
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