Mir
Taqi Mir: Life and Ghazals
kaha main ne kitna hai gul ka sabaat
kali ne yeh sun kar tabassum kiya
Mir Taqi Mir was
born at
Mir is one of the
immortals among Urdu poets. He is a perfect artist of the ghazal, which
makes its peculiar appeal through compression, suggestion, imagery and
musicality. He builds his poetry on the foundations of his personal experience.
His favourite theme is love - love unfulfilled - and his favourite manner is
conversational. Mir lived at a time when Urdu poetry was yet at a formative
stage - its language was getting reformed and purged of native crudities, and
its texture was being enriched with borrowings from Persian imagery and idiom.
Aided by his aesthetic instincts, Mir struck a fine balance between the old and
the new, the indigenous and the imported elements. Knowing that Urdu is
essentially an Indian language, he retained the best in native Hindi speech and
leavened it with a sprinkling of Persian diction and phraseology, so as to
create a poetic language at once simple, natural and elegant, acceptable alike
to the elite and the common folk. Consequently he has developed a style which
has been the envy of all succeeding poets...
It is a commonplace
of criticism that Mir is a poet of pathos and melancholy moods. His pathos, it
should be remembered, is compounded of personal and public causes. His life was
a long struggle against unfavourable circumstances...
Mir was a prolific
writier. His complete works, Kulliaat,
consist of 6 dewans,
containing 13,585 couplets comprising all kinds of poetic forms: ghazal, masnavi, qasida, rubai, mustezaad, satire, etc.
... He died in
Some of
Mir's ghazals
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Ibtadaae ishq hai rota hai kya
·
Faqiraana aae sadaa kar chale
·
Kya kahun tum se main ke kya hai ishq
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Patta patta, boota boota, haal hamaaraa jaane hai
Ibtadaae
ishq hai rota hai kya,
Aage aage dekhiye hota hai kya.
Qafile mein subah
ke ek shor hai,
Yaani ghaafil ham chale sota hai kya.
Sabz hoti hi
nahin yeh sar zamin,
Tukhm-e-khwahish dil mein tu bota hai kya.
Yeh
nishaan-e-ishq hain jaate nahin,
Daagh chhaati ke abas dhota hai kya.
Ghairat-e-Yousaf
hai yeh waqt-e-aziz,
Mir isko raigaan khota hai kya.
Faqiraana
aae sadaa kar chale,
Miyaan khush raho ham dua kar chale.
Jo tujh bin na
jeene ko kahte the ham,
So is ahd ko ab wafa kar chale.
Koi naumidana
karte nigah,
So tum ham se munh bhi chhipa kar chale.
Bahut aarzoo thi
gali ki teri,
So yaan se lahu mein
Dikhai diye yun
ke bekhud kiya,
Hamen aap se bhi juda kar chale.
Jabin sijda karte
hi karte gayi,
Haq-e-bandgi ham ada kar chale.
Prastash ki yaan
taeen ke ai but tujhe,
Nazr mein sabhon ki Khuda kar chale.
Gayi umr dar
band-e-fikr-e-ghazal,
So is fan ko aisa bara kar chale.
Kahen kya jo
puchhe koi ham se Mir,
Jahaan mein tum ae the kya kar chale.
Kya
kahun tum se main ke kya hai ishq,
Jaan ka rog hai, bala hai ishq.
Ishq hi ishq hai
jahaan dekho,
Saare aalam mein bhar raha hai ishq.
Ishq maashuq ishq
aashiq hai,
Yaani apna hi mubtala hai ishq.
Ishq hai
tarz-o-taur ishq ke taeen,
Kahin banda kahin Khuda hai ishq.
Kaun maqsad ko
ishq bin pohuncha,
Aarzoo ishq wa mudda hai ishq.
Koi khwaahan
nahin mahabbat ka,
Tu kahe jins-e-narawa hai ishq.
Mir ji zarad hote
jaate hain,
Kya kahin tum ne bhi kiya hai ishq?
Patta
patta, boota boota, haal hamaaraa jaane hai,
Jaane na jaane gul hi na jaane, baagh to saaraa jaane hai.
Aage us mutkabbar
ke ham Khuda Khuda kiya karte hain,
Kab maujud Khuda ko woh maghrur khud-aara jaane hai.
Aashiq saa to
saada koi aur na hoga dunya mein,
Ji ke zian ko ishq mein uske apna waara jaane hai.
Chaaraa gari
beemari-e-dil ki rasm-e-shahr-e-husn nahin,
Warna dilbar-e-naadaan bhi is dard kaa chaara jaane hai.
Mehr-o-wafa-o-lutaf-o-inait,
ek se waqif in mein nahin,
Aur to sab kuchh tanz-o-kanaya, ramz-o-ishara jaane hai.
Aashiq to murdah
hai hamesha ji uthta hai dekhe use,
Yaar ke aa jaane ko yakaayak umr do baara jaane hai.
Tashna-e-khun hai
apna kitna, Mir bhi naadaan, talkhi-kash,
Damdaar aab-e-tegh ko uske aab-e-gawara jaane hai.