write the brief summary of the story idgah by Munshi Premchand.
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Idgah tells the story of a four-year-old orphan named Hamid who lives with his grandmother Amina. Hamid, the protagonist of the story, has recently lost his parents; however his grandmother tells him that his father has left to earn money,and that his mother has gone to Allah to fetch lovely gifts for him. This fills Hamid with hope, and despite Amina's worry surrounding their poverty and her grandson's well-being, Hamid is a happy and positive child.
The story begins on Eid morning, as Hamid sets out for the Eidgah with other boys from the village. Hamid is notably impoverished next to his friends, poorly dressed and famished-looking, and has only three paise as Idi for the festival. The other boys spend their pocket money on rides, candies and beautiful clay toys, and tease Hamid when he dismisses this as a waste of money for momentary pleasure. While his friends are enjoying themselves, he overcomes his temptation and goes to a hardware shop to buy a pair of tongs, remembering how his grandmother burns her fingers while cooking rotis.
As they return to the village Hamid's friends tease him for his purchase, extolling the virtues of their toys over his tongs. Hamid retorts with several clever arguments and before long his friends become more enamoured with the tongs than their own playthings, even offering to trade their items for his, which Hamid refuses. The story ends on a touching note when Hamid gifts the tongs to his grandmother. At first she scolds him for making the purchase, rather than buying something to eat or drink at the fair, until Hamid reminds her of how she burns her fingers daily. She bursts into tears at this and blesses him for his kindness.
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The story opens with a bright morning. The long fasting of thirty days is over and the day is of festival Eid. People all around are chirpy and getting ready to go to Idgah, which is at a distance of three miles from the village. Rich children will get good amount of money (in the form of Idi) to spend while poor ones will have to control their buying temptations. Despite these economical differences, children are happy and positive beyond a limit.
Hamid is a five-year-old orphan boy. He is poor and lives with the only guardian of his life – his grandmother Amina. Hamid is oblivion of the fact that his parents are dead; instead Amina has assured him that his father is gone to faraway land to bring lots of gifts for him while his mother will bring a lot of merits from the home of Allah. Hamid believes in their homecoming, hence he is always optimistic and full of life.
Amina does some petty needle work to keep their lives get going, but in a sense too poor to afford a sumptuous meal on a special day like Eid. Initially Amina hesitates to send Hamid out to Idgah without a chaperone as she fears he may get lost in the crowd but when he insists she lets him go. Soon he catches up with his friends: Mahmud, Mohsin, Noor and Sammi. All his friends hail from well to do families; they have over ten paisa as compared to his three paisa Idi. Hamid being poor is obviously ill dressed, bare foot, and poor-looking boy.
All of his friends buy sweets, clay toys and take rides. Though he wishes to feel, touch and buy those toys, but lack of money stops him and he is aware of it. The best thing is his self-control and spontaneous wisdom. He knows that all the joy rides are temporary; toys will perish sooner or later. While walking in the fair, which is crowded with people and has sundry of shops and vendors, he stops by a hardware shop. It is not selling toys but hardware items like pincers, spade, hoe, scythe, tongs, etc. These items are used by adults like farmers or labourers. At the sight of a pair of tongs, his mind races back to kitchen where his grandma cooks rotis without any pair of tongs (chimta). In the process she burns her hand so often. Thinking a pair of tongs will be a fitting gift for her, he buys one with his little money.
All his friends jest about his chimta but Hamid is clever at argument. He proves to them that his chimta is imperishable and invincible; it is made of metal hence it can work in and resist rain as well as fire. In the late afternoon he returns home famished. When he presents it to Amina, at first she shows anger, but then Hamid reminds her about her cooking plight. She instantly takes him in her lap and blesses him for his kindness so profoundly that tears become unstoppable. The boy sacrifices his childish temptations in order to mitigate his grandma’s agonized cooking process.
In this story Premchand shows that children epitomise love, care and kindness towards their elders and notice all trivial things happening around them.
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