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ashok lal

گھر  واپسی  ۔  اشوک  لعل  اشوکؔ

۱

ٹوپی،  جنیوو،  ٹیکہ  مالا،  چھاپ  تِلک  کی  جھوٹی  ہالا

ہیں  یہ  سب  بازار  کی  چیزیں  نقلی  اور  بے  کار  کی  چیزیں

۲

تن  من  میں  گر  کوڑھ  ہوا  ہے  کب  اُس  کو  ریشم  نے  ڈھکا  ہے

پھیکا  ہے  ہر  ایک  لباس  دل  میں  اگر  نہیں  وشواس

۳

کالی  سفید  اگر  ہیں  نظریں،  جیون  پہ  لگتی  ہیں  قیدیں

پھیکے  پھیکے  چاند  ستارے،  اِندر  دھنُش  کے  رنگ  بھی  سارے

۴

ایسا  ہے  پر  میرا  گھر

جس  میں  نہیں  دیوار  یا  در

۵

کِرنوں  کا  سایا  پڑتا  ہے

انساں  بس  انساں  رہتا  ہے

۶

میرا  گھر  ہے  روح  مری

رستہ  منزل  سبھی  وہی

घर वापसी – अशोक लाल अशोक

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टोपी, जनेऊ, टीका, माला, छाप तिलक की झूटी हाला

हैं ये सब बाज़ार की चीज़ें, नक़्ली और बेकार की चीज़ें

२

तन मन में गर कोढ़ हुआ है, कब उस को रेशम ने ढका है

फीका है हर एक लिबास, दिल में अगर नहीं विश्वास

३

काली सफ़ेद अगर हैं नज़रें, जीवन पे लगती हैं क़ैदें

फीके फीके चाँद सितारे, इन्द्र-धनुष के रंग भी सारे

४

ऐसा है पर मेरा घर

जिस में नहीं दीवार या दर

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किरनों का साया पढता है

इन्साँ बस इन्साँ रहता है

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मेरा घर है रूह मेरी

रस्ता मंज़िल सभी वही

Click here for background and on any passage for word meanings and explanatory discussion. ashok lal (xxxx-living) dehli. urdu poet, playwrite, screen writer, theatre director. His father, vinod lal taalib was an urdu poet and his mother was a hindi writer and poet. Their house had frequent gatherings of poetry recitation. Two of his older pramod lal yakta and subodh lal saaqi are poets also featured on urdushahkar. All three are committed secularists. They trace their heritage to Ghalib’s shaagird, munshi hargopal tufta. ashok lal’s collection of poems is titled ‘raushnaaii’.

ashok lal (xxxx-living) dehli.  urdu poet, playwrite, screen writer, theatre director.  His father, vinod lal taalib was an urdu poet and his mother was a hindi writer and poet.  Their house had frequent gatherings of poetry recitation.  Two of his older pramod lal yakta and subodh lal saaqi are poets also featured on urdushahkar.  All three are committed secularists.  They trace their heritage to Ghalib’s shaagird, munshi hargopal tufta.  ashok lal’s collection of poems is titled ‘raushnaaii’.

1.muslim skull cap 2.hindu ceremonial thread 3.forehead ornament 4.prayer beads 5.vermillion prayer mark on forehead 6.halo, glow 7.fake 8.useless

All religious symbols – the muslim cap, the hindu ceremonial thread, a married woman’s head ornament, prayer beads, the halo associated with the vermillion mark – these are all fake and useless things.

1.body and soul 2.leprosy, disease 3.silk 4.cover up, hide 5.pale 6.garment 7.faith, trust, confidence

If the body and soul are diseased, how can silk cover it up.  Every garment will appear pale if there is no real faith.

1.gaze 2.life 3.restrictions 4.pale 5.rainbow

Black and white kaali-safed can be interpreted to mean bland/colourless or to mean sharp/intolerant distinction between right and wrong, allowed and forbidden.  I prefer the second interpretation … if you gaze is intolerant, if there are restrictions on life, then the moon and the stars and pale as are the colours of the rainbow.

1.but 2.home, heart, soul 3.door

Such are things, but my heart/my home, which has no walls, no doors i.e., is wide open and welcoming to all …

1.rays of light 2.human

… my home/my soul is bathed in rays of light, it is where humans and humans with no distinction of race or religion.

1.soul 2.path 3.destination 4.same

My home is my soul; it is the path and it is the destination i.e., it is the essence of everything that is me.

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