POST 18: Kal choudvi ki raat thi
07.11.2020
This is the story, where a single ghazal has made the shayar famous. This ghazal was written by Sher Muhammad Khan, who wrote under the takallus ‘INSHA’. Also as ibn e I nsha, which means son of Insha. The Christ.He lived a short life, having born in 1927 and expiring in 1978, of cancer in UK.
IMPORTANT WORDS:रस्म-ए-बंदगी : tradition of devotion; आशुफ़्तगी uneasiness, distress; उफ़्तादगी: helplessness, misery; हुस्न-ए-बे-परवा carefree beauty; अल्ताफ़ favour; इकराम : Honour ;-दरेग़ बे-अमाँ फ़ुग़ाँ clamour, cry of lamentation,cry of a broken heart;
कल चौदहवीं की रात थी
कल चौदहवीं की रात थी शब भर रहा चर्चा तिरा
कुछ ने कहा ये चाँद है कुछ ने कहा चेहरा तिरा
Yesterday was the fourteenth day of rising moon!
The whole night, people were talking, discussing about you.
Some observed that it was the moon.
While others claimed it was your countenance.
हम भी वहीं मौजूद थे हम से भी सब पूछा किए
हम हँस दिए हम चुप रहे मंज़ूर था पर्दा तिरा
Even I was present there.
People kept on asking me,
I just laughed it off,
kept silent.
To me, your desire to be behind the scene,
was acceptable to me.
इस शहर में किस से मिलें हम से तो छूटीं महफ़िलें
हर शख़्स तेरा नाम ले हर शख़्स दीवाना तिरा
In this city of yours, whom can I meet?
I have been compelled to forsake parties!
At any party,every one of them ,talks of you and you only!
Each one is an admirer of yours!
कूचे को तेरे छोड़ कर जोगी ही बन जाएँ मगर
जंगल तिरे पर्बत तिरे बस्ती तिरी सहरा तिरा
I would disown your locality, abandon it,
Become a recluse, but alas!
The Jungles belong to you, mountains belong to you, colonies are yours and villages belong to you!!
हम और रस्म-ए-बंदगीआशुफ़्तगी उफ़्तादगी
एहसान है क्या क्या तिरा
ऐ हुस्न-ए-बे-परवा तिरा
I and my sense of devotion, my uneasiness and my distress,
These are all your gifts, your favours,
O heartless, feeling-less, carefree beauty!
दो अश्क जाने किस लिए पलकों पे आ कर टिक गए
अल्ताफ़ की बारिश तिरी इकराम का दरिया तिरा
Two tears unknowingly have appeared and stayed in my lashes!
A showering of favours, a stream of honour from you
ऐ बे-दरेग़ ,ओ बे-अमाँ हम ने कभी की है फ़ुग़ाँ
हम को तिरी वहशत सही, हम को सही सौदा तिरा
O you the rash one jumping into things without a way out,
Have I ever cried in pain, lamented or wailed?
To me your frenzy was justified,
To me your terms of agreement were fair.
हम पर ये सख़्ती की नज़र हम हैं फ़क़ीर-ए-रहगुज़र
रस्ता कभी रोका तिरा, दामन कभी थामा तिरा
Why this strictness of attitude towards me?
I am just a beggar on the way.
Have I blocked your way?
Have I ever touched your trailing clothes?
हाँ हाँ तिरी सूरत हसी
लेकिन तू ऐसा भी नहीं
इक शख़्स के अशआ’र से
शोहरा हुआ क्या क्या तिरा
Yes,yes I agree you have a beautiful face.
But then things are not that simple!
It is the couplets of a person,
That have made you so famous !
बेदर्द ,सुननी हो तो चल,
कहता है क्या अच्छी ग़ज़ल
आशिक तेरा, रुसवा तेरा,
शायर तेरा, इंशा तेरा
O heartless come with me
if you want to listen to a good ghazal,
That lover of yours, that abandoned lover of yours,
That teller of a good ghazal, that ‘insha’ of yours.
कल चौदहवीं की रात थी...
The same ghazal has also been rendered by famous Ghulam Ali.
Enjoy the weekend with these two masterpieces.
To add pleasure to the weekend, let me introduce the same ghazal sung by
Abida Parveen.
07.11.2020.
