ایک بار ہیگ سے شہاب بھائی نے مزاح میں لکھا تھا:
اشفاق!
ثاقب خوب باتیں بناتا ہے۔ اگلے خط میں اس کی تصویر بھیجوں گا۔ راہ چلتی ہر میم اسے گھورتی ہے، پیار کرتی ہے، گال کھینچتی ہے پھر کہتی ہے
What a sweet darling. Looks exactly like his father.
یہ کلمات سن کر عفت خار کھاتی ہے لیکن اپنا دل پشاوری ہو جاتا ہے۔
Once Shahab bhai wrote a letter full of humour from The Hague:
Ashfaq!
Saqib makes up so many things. Will send his picture in the next letter. Each woman that passes by stares at him, shows affection, pulls his cheeks and then says:
'What a sweet darling, looks exactly like his father'
Iffat gets jealous on hearing this but my heart blossoms with happiness
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November 28, 2011
ڈرائی فروٹ اور آٹو گراف
آج صبح اشفاق سے دو ایسے آدمی ملنے آئے جو ‘پین ان دی نیک‘ تھے اُس کے لئے ۔ ۔ ۔ لیکن میرا وقت اچھا گزرا ۔ ۔ ۔ پھر میں نے خالد زہری اور ہیڈی کو خط لکھا۔ دوپہر کو ہم دونوں بیڈن روڈ گئے اور ڈرائی فروٹ خریدا۔ لیکن اشفاق نے کاجو اور بادام زیادہ خود کھائے اور مجھے کم دیئے ۔ ۔ ۔ مونگ پھلی اس نے کم کھائی اور مجھے زیادہ کھلائی ۔ ۔ ۔ ابھی آنے سے پہلے تھوڑی دیر کے لئے ہم لارنش باغ گئے تھے وہاں ہم نے کینو کھائے اور ایک ایسی عورت سے ملے جس نے اشفاق سے اپنے دوپٹے پر آٹوگراف لیئے۔ مجھے اُس نے پہچانا نہیں ورنہ مجھ سے ضرور آٹوگراف لیتی ۔ ۔ ۔
"Today morning, two men came to visit Ashfaq who were a 'pain in the neck' for him... My time went well though... Then I wrote a letter to Khalid Zehri and Heidi. We both went to Biden Road in the afternoon and bought dry fruit. But Ashfaq himself ate lots of cashew-nuts and almonds and offered me only a few... He had very few peanuts and gave more to me... Before coming here we went to Lawrence Garden for a while... There, we had some oranges and met with a woman who took Ashfaq's autograph on her dupatta. She did not recognize me else she would have definitely taken an autograph from me..."
[From Mard e Abraisham. Translated by Zaki Khalid]
"Today morning, two men came to visit Ashfaq who were a 'pain in the neck' for him... My time went well though... Then I wrote a letter to Khalid Zehri and Heidi. We both went to Biden Road in the afternoon and bought dry fruit. But Ashfaq himself ate lots of cashew-nuts and almonds and offered me only a few... He had very few peanuts and gave more to me... Before coming here we went to Lawrence Garden for a while... There, we had some oranges and met with a woman who took Ashfaq's autograph on her dupatta. She did not recognize me else she would have definitely taken an autograph from me..."
[From Mard e Abraisham. Translated by Zaki Khalid]
قومی لنچ
مرکزی اردو بورڈ جو بعد میں اردو سائینس بورڈ ہوگیا، یہیں پر شہاب بھائی دوپہر کے وقت خان صاحب (اشفاق احمد) کے ساتھ سلاد اور روٹی کھاتے اور بڑی تعریف کرتے:
یار پاکستان میں یہ لنچ رائج ہونا چاہیے ۔ ۔ ۔ تھوڑا سا کچومر اور روٹی۔ لیکن اس میں ایک قباحت ہے ۔ ۔ ۔ یہ ہضم بہت جلد ہو جاتا ہے۔
Federal Urdu Board, which later became the Urdu Science Board, was where Shahab bhai ate chapatti and salad with Khan sahab (Ashfaq Ahmed) in the afternoon and used to speak highly of it thus:
"Yaar, this lunch should be imposed in Pakistan, some kachoomar (sliced up vegetables) and chapatti. But there is a drawback to it... it digests too quickly"
[From Mard e Abraisham. Translated by Zaki Khalid]
یار پاکستان میں یہ لنچ رائج ہونا چاہیے ۔ ۔ ۔ تھوڑا سا کچومر اور روٹی۔ لیکن اس میں ایک قباحت ہے ۔ ۔ ۔ یہ ہضم بہت جلد ہو جاتا ہے۔
Federal Urdu Board, which later became the Urdu Science Board, was where Shahab bhai ate chapatti and salad with Khan sahab (Ashfaq Ahmed) in the afternoon and used to speak highly of it thus:
"Yaar, this lunch should be imposed in Pakistan, some kachoomar (sliced up vegetables) and chapatti. But there is a drawback to it... it digests too quickly"
[From Mard e Abraisham. Translated by Zaki Khalid]
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