This post is inspired by, and therefore, dedicated to my old friend and soul-sister Ranjani. Our shared love of Urdu poetry goes back to the time when we were teenagers. At that time, as students in Srinagar (Kashmir) we would scribble our favourite lines on the last pages of each other's notebooks.
Last evening Ranjani called me, frantic, because a fragment of a ghazal she's loved for long was stuck in a corner of her mind. She couldn't remember all its words and wanted me to look it up for her, for she knew that the poet is someone very close to my heart: Ahmed Faraz. It was with the greatest of pleasure that I pulled out a pile of books from my poetry shelf...
Serendipity!
This ghazal had been published as a part of Faraz's collection of ghazals and nazms called "Khanabadosh".
Read it and revel as I do in the felicity of Faraz's pen.
Thank you, Ranjani.
Kya aise kam-sukhan se koii guftagoo karey
jo mustakqil suuqoot se dil ko lahuu karey
Ab to humein bhi tarq-e-maraasim ka dukh nahi.n
par dil yeh chaahta hai ki aagaaz tuu karey
Tere baghair bhi to ganeemat hai zindagi
khud ko gawaa.n ke kaun teri justajuu karey
Ab to yeh arzoo hai ke wok zakhm khaiiye
taa-zindagi yeh dil na koii arzoo karey
Tujhko bhulaa ke dil hai woh sharmind-e-nazar
ab koii hadsaa hi tere rubaroo karey
Chupchaap apni aag mein jalte raho 'Faraz'
duniya to arz-e-haal se be-aabroo karey
Serendipity!
This ghazal had been published as a part of Faraz's collection of ghazals and nazms called "Khanabadosh".
Read it and revel as I do in the felicity of Faraz's pen.
Thank you, Ranjani.
Kya aise kam-sukhan se koii guftagoo karey
jo mustakqil suuqoot se dil ko lahuu karey
Ab to humein bhi tarq-e-maraasim ka dukh nahi.n
par dil yeh chaahta hai ki aagaaz tuu karey
Tere baghair bhi to ganeemat hai zindagi
khud ko gawaa.n ke kaun teri justajuu karey
Ab to yeh arzoo hai ke wok zakhm khaiiye
taa-zindagi yeh dil na koii arzoo karey
Tujhko bhulaa ke dil hai woh sharmind-e-nazar
ab koii hadsaa hi tere rubaroo karey
Chupchaap apni aag mein jalte raho 'Faraz'
duniya to arz-e-haal se be-aabroo karey
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6 comments:
Really beautiful.........book publish karaaaaaaaaaa
The way you write, it touches my heart........
Love you my soul mate.......
Thanks, dear girl. After you!!!
G:
I am *not* stalking you, only genuinely loving your blog.
S.
beautiful and great poetry of ahmed faraz
S: YAdmit it, you like stalking me :)
Autar-ji, thank you.
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