there are some wonderful couplets by meer that i recently came upon and would like to share them with my readers...
bas yeh jana ke kuch na jana, haye!!
yeh bhi ik umr mein hua ma'aloom.
the wonderful thing about the couplet is its use of haye!..a version of Alas!...which brings in all the feelings of loss of life and the idea of gain which is miniscule in comparison to the loss...to a religious reader it ought to bring to the mind the meccan surah in the qur'aan called ' wal asr'....
wal asr! innal insana lafi khusr
khusr means loss...in this surah...Allah swears by 'Time'...eternal, temporal, duree real or reel, insaan, man is in a state of loss....except those who believe and do good deeds.
the first line of meers couplet brings to mind this state of loss...with the Haye! which brings out the state of regret at a life 'wasted'. the next couplet clarifies the first when it shows that the life has actually come to an end...ek umr mein hua ma'aloom.
haven't come across such laconic and packed lines in many writers.
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- Senior assistant professor at Zakir Husain Delhi College (Eve.) of the Delhi University
Monday, April 27, 2009
meer sahab se dosti kar lo!
there are some wonderful couplets by meer that i recently came upon and would like to share them with my readers...
bas yeh jana ke kuch na jana, haye!!
yeh bhi ik umr mein hua ma'aloom.
the wonderful thing about the couplet is its use of haye!..a version of Alas!...which brings in all the feelings of loss of life and the idea of gain which is miniscule in comparison to the loss...to a religious reader it ought to bring to the mind the meccan surah in the qur'aan called ' wal asr'....
wal asr! innal insana lafi khusr
khusr means loss...in this surah...Allah swears by 'Time'...eternal, temporal, duree real or reel, insaan, man is in a state of loss....except those who believe and do good deeds.
the first line of meers couplet brings to mind this state of loss...with the Haye! which brings out the state of regret at a life 'wasted'. the next couplet clarifies the first when it shows that the life has actually come to an end...ek umr mein hua ma'aloom.
haven't come across such laconic and packed lines in many writers.
bas yeh jana ke kuch na jana, haye!!
yeh bhi ik umr mein hua ma'aloom.
the wonderful thing about the couplet is its use of haye!..a version of Alas!...which brings in all the feelings of loss of life and the idea of gain which is miniscule in comparison to the loss...to a religious reader it ought to bring to the mind the meccan surah in the qur'aan called ' wal asr'....
wal asr! innal insana lafi khusr
khusr means loss...in this surah...Allah swears by 'Time'...eternal, temporal, duree real or reel, insaan, man is in a state of loss....except those who believe and do good deeds.
the first line of meers couplet brings to mind this state of loss...with the Haye! which brings out the state of regret at a life 'wasted'. the next couplet clarifies the first when it shows that the life has actually come to an end...ek umr mein hua ma'aloom.
haven't come across such laconic and packed lines in many writers.
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