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For word meanings and explanatory discussion in English click on the tabs marked “Roman” or “Notes”.
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Recitation
منصور کا سر لے کے چلیں ۔ کانتی موہن سوزؔ
۱
اپنی تاریخ سے کوئی تو اثر لے کے چلیں
اپنے کاندھے کسی منصور کا سر لے کے چلیں
۲
اُس گُل اندام کو ویرانے کی پہچان نہیں
دل کے نقشے پہ کسی قیس کا گھر لے کے چلیں
۳
ساری تجویز کو اک بار اُلٹنا ہوگا
اب نشیمن کے لیے شاخِِ شجر لے کے چلیں
۴
اُس کی محفِل میں سماجت کی کوئی پوچھ نہیں
برق پہلو میں نگاہوں میں شرر لے کے چلیں
۵
آخری بار تِری مان لیں اے جوشِ جنوں
جنسِ دل یوں تو ہے ناکارہ مگر لے کے چلیں
۶
سوزؔ کی آن رہے جاں کی کوئی بات نہیں
دار پہ بھی یہی بدمست نظر لے کے چلیں
मंसूर का सर ले के चलें – कान्ती मोहन सोज़
१
अपनी तारीख़ से कोई तो असर ले के चलें
अपने कांधे किसी मन्सूर का सर ले के चलें
२
उस गुल-अंदाम को वीराने की पहचान नहीं
दिल के नक़्शे पे किसी क़ैस का घर ले के चलें
३
सारी तज्वीज़ को एक बार उलटना होगा
अब नशेमन के लिये शाख़-ए शजर ले के चलें
४
उस की महफ़िल में समाजत की कोई पूछ नहीं
बर्क़ पहलू में निगाहों में शरर ले के चलें
५
आख़री बार तेरी मान लें अए जोश-ए जुनूँ
जिन्स-ए दिल यूँ तो है नाकारा मगर ले के चलें
६
सोज़ की आन रहे, जाँ की कोई बात नहीं
दार पे भी यही बदमस्त नज़र ले के चलें
Click here for background and on any passage for word meanings and explanatory discussion. soz-kanti mohan (1935-xxxx), muraadabad and dehli. His life is illustrative of prevailing bigotry and the pull of urdu. His father went to school only up to 4th grade but read a lot – urdu, faarsi, hindi and sanskrit. His father wanted him to learn faarsi and urdu; was staunchly against communalism but the son joined RSS before 6th grade and was dead set against urdu. Never learnt urdu script. However his diction and pronunciation of urdu was strictly enforced by his urdu loving father. He got a PhD in hindi but his father was unhappy and considered him uneducated. During his PhD, he taught at a college, befriended a couple of urdu teachers, his love of urdu language surfaced, he got disillusioned with RSS and left the saNgh. First memory of poetic composition 1948 with many nazm on gandhi. Read classical shu’araa in naagiri script. BA in muradabad, MA and PhD in dehli. Joined the communist party (marxist) in 1964. Dedicates his book to ranadive, calling him ‘the greatest advocate of the democratic rights of urdu language’. He had published writings, which he classifies as urdu, in hindi magazines where it was largely ignored. Finally, his friends persuaded him to compile his Ghazal which he got published in urdu script, in 1990, even if he himself could not read or write it.
1
apni taariiKh1 se koii to asar2 le ke chaleN
apne kaandhe3 kisi mansoor4 ka sar le ke chaleN 1.history 2.influence, impact 3.shoulders 4.mansoor-al-hallaaj
mansoor-al-hallaaj (858-922) was a sufi scholar/mystic who travelled among other places to India, learnt sanskrit and read the vedas. Upon his return he continued to teach and acquired a following. He declared an-al-haq I am the Truth aham brahmasmi. He was charged with heresy and ordered executed unless he recanted. He refused, and was executed. He is held up as a symbol of defiance and courage in the face of oppression. Thus, let us draw a lesson from our history. Let us carry the head of mansoor on our shoulders i.e., let us defy oppression, in the face of execution.
2
uss gul-andaam1 ko viiraan’e2 kii pahchaan3 nahiiN
dil ke naqshe4 pe kisii qais5 kaa ghar6 le ke chaleN 1.rose-bodied 2.desolation 3.knowledge, recognition 4.map, sketch 5.majnuN 6.home
Here gul-andaam is symbolic of the priveleged and/or ruling class and qais ka ghar – the home of majnuN is desolation/desert. Thus, the priveleged have no recognition of what desolation/deprivation is. Let us carry a sketch of our destitution on our breast as we march demanding justice.
3
saarii tajviiz1 ko ek baar ulTnaa2 hogaa
ab nasheman3 ke liye shaaKh4-e shajar5 le ke chaleN 1.proposal, plan 2.overturn, turn upside down 3.nest 4.branch 5.tree
The people in power have a plan to build homes for us, the homeless. These are all hypocritical plans for ‘show and tell’. We have to overturn these plans. Let us take our own means (shaaKh-e shajar) to build our own dwellings.
4
uss kii mahfil1 meN samaajat2 ki koii poochh3 nahiiN
barq4 pahlu5 meN nigaahoN6 meN sharar7 le ke chaleN 1.gathering, presence 2.pleading 3.asking, hearing 4.lightning 5.side, beside 6.eyes 7.sparks
Here ‘uss‘ is used to mean the priveleged and the powerful. In their presence, there is no hearing for our pleading. Let us march their with lightning beside us and fiery sparks in our eyes.
5
aaKhrii-baar1 terii maan2 leN aye josh3-e junooN4
jins5-e dil yuN to hai naakaara6 magar7 le ke chaleN 1.last time 2.agree, accept 3.fervour 4.madness, passion 5.merchandise, commodity 6.useless 7.but
The commodity of the heart – jins-e dil – is love. O intensity of passion, this commodity of the heart is not of much use but let us take it with us, let us give it a chance one last time (before we undertake revolutionary change).
6
soz1 kii aan2 rahe, jaaN3 kii koii baat nahiiN
daar4 pe bhii yahii badmast5 nazar6 le ke chaleN 1.poet, pen-name 2.pride, dignity 3.life 4.gallows 5.intoxicated, ecstatic, defiant 6.eyes
Let the dignity of soz remain in place, steadfast; his life is of no consequence; it can be sacrificed. Even on the gallows let him carry his defiant ecstacy in his eyes.
soz-kanti mohan (1935-xxxx), muraadabad and dehli. His life is illustrative of prevailing bigotry and the pull of urdu. His father went to school only up to 4th grade but read a lot – urdu, faarsi, hindi and sanskrit. His father wanted him to learn faarsi and urdu; was staunchly against communalism but the son joined RSS before 6th grade and was dead set against urdu. Never learnt urdu script. However his diction and pronunciation of urdu was strictly enforced by his urdu loving father. He got a PhD in hindi but his father was unhappy and considered him uneducated. During his PhD, he taught at a college, befriended a couple of urdu teachers, his love of urdu language surfaced, he got disillusioned with RSS and left the saNgh. First memory of poetic composition 1948 – with many nazm on gandhi. Read classical shu’araa in naagiri script. BA in muradabad, MA and PhD in dehli. Joined the communist party (marxist) in 1964. Dedicates his book to ranadive, calling him ‘the greatest advocate of the democratic rights of urdu language’. He had published writings, which he classifies as urdu, in hindi magazines where it was largely ignored. Finally, his friends persuaded him to compile his Ghazal which he got published in urdu script, in 1990, even if he himself could not read or write it.
1
apni taariiKh1 se koii to asar2 le ke chaleN
apne kaandhe3 kisi mansoor4 ka sar le ke chaleN
1.history 2.influence, impact 3.shoulders 4.mansoor-al-hallaaj
mansoor-al-hallaaj (858-922) was a sufi scholar/mystic who travelled among other places to India, learnt sanskrit and read the vedas. Upon his return he continued to teach and acquired a following. He declared an-al-haq I am the Truth aham brahmasmi. He was charged with heresy and ordered executed unless he recanted. He refused, and was executed. He is held up as a symbol of defiance and courage in the face of oppression. Thus, let us draw a lesson from our history. Let us carry the head of mansoor on our shoulders i.e., let us defy oppression, in the face of execution.
2
uss gul-andaam1 ko viiraan’e2 kii pahchaan3 nahiiN
dil ke naqshe4 pe kisii qais5 kaa ghar6 le ke chaleN
1.rose-bodied 2.desolation 3.knowledge, recognition 4.map, sketch 5.majnuN 6.home
Here gul-andaam is symbolic of the priveleged and/or ruling class and qais ka ghar – the home of majnuN is desolation/desert. Thus, the priveleged have no recognition of what desolation/deprivation is. Let us carry a sketch of our destitution on our breast as we march demanding justice.
3
saarii tajviiz1 ko ek baar ulTnaa2 hogaa
ab nasheman3 ke liye shaaKh4-e shajar5 le ke chaleN
1.proposal, plan 2.overturn, turn upside down 3.nest 4.branch 5.tree
The people in power have a plan to build homes for us, the homeless. These are all hypocritical plans for ‘show and tell’. We have to overturn these plans. Let us take our own means (shaaKh-e shajar) to build our own dwellings.
4
uss kii mahfil1 meN samaajat2 ki koii poochh3 nahiiN
barq4 pahlu5 meN nigaahoN6 meN sharar7 le ke chaleN
1.gathering, presence 2.pleading 3.asking, hearing 4.lightning 5.side, beside 6.eyes 7.sparks
Here ‘uss‘ is used to mean the priveleged and the powerful. In their presence, there is no hearing for our pleading. Let us march their with lightning beside us and fiery sparks in our eyes.
5
aaKhrii-baar1 terii maan2 leN aye josh3-e junooN4
jins5-e dil yuN to hai naakaara6 magar7 le ke chaleN
1.last time 2.agree, accept 3.fervour 4.madness, passion 5.merchandise, commodity 6.useless 7.but
The commodity of the heart – jins-e dil – is love. O intensity of passion, this commodity of the heart is not of much use but let us take it with us, let us give it a chance one last time (before we undertake revolutionary change).
6
soz1 kii aan2 rahe, jaaN3 kii koii baat nahiiN
daar4 pe bhii yahii badmast5 nazar6 le ke chaleN
1.poet, pen-name 2.pride, dignity 3.life 4.gallows 5.intoxicated, ecstatic, defiant 6.eyes
Let the dignity of soz remain in place, steadfast; his life is of no consequence; it can be sacrificed. Even on the gallows let him carry his defiant ecstacy in his eyes.
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For word meanings and explanatory discussion in English click on the tabs marked “Roman” or “Notes”.
https://urdushahkar.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/kms-mansoor-ka-sar-le-ke-chaleN-audio.mp3
Recitation
منصور کا سر لے کے چلیں ۔ کانتی موہن سوزؔ
۱
اپنی تاریخ سے کوئی تو اثر لے کے چلیں
اپنے کاندھے کسی منصور کا سر لے کے چلیں
۲
اُس گُل اندام کو ویرانے کی پہچان نہیں
دل کے نقشے پہ کسی قیس کا گھر لے کے چلیں
۳
ساری تجویز کو اک بار اُلٹنا ہوگا
اب نشیمن کے لیے شاخِِ شجر لے کے چلیں
۴
اُس کی محفِل میں سماجت کی کوئی پوچھ نہیں
برق پہلو میں نگاہوں میں شرر لے کے چلیں
۵
آخری بار تِری مان لیں اے جوشِ جنوں
جنسِ دل یوں تو ہے ناکارہ مگر لے کے چلیں
۶
سوزؔ کی آن رہے جاں کی کوئی بات نہیں
دار پہ بھی یہی بدمست نظر لے کے چلیں
मंसूर का सर ले के चलें – कान्ती मोहन सोज़
१
अपनी तारीख़ से कोई तो असर ले के चलें
अपने कांधे किसी मन्सूर का सर ले के चलें
२
उस गुल-अंदाम को वीराने की पहचान नहीं
दिल के नक़्शे पे किसी क़ैस का घर ले के चलें
३
सारी तज्वीज़ को एक बार उलटना होगा
अब नशेमन के लिये शाख़-ए शजर ले के चलें
४
उस की महफ़िल में समाजत की कोई पूछ नहीं
बर्क़ पहलू में निगाहों में शरर ले के चलें
५
आख़री बार तेरी मान लें अए जोश-ए जुनूँ
जिन्स-ए दिल यूँ तो है नाकारा मगर ले के चलें
६
सोज़ की आन रहे, जाँ की कोई बात नहीं
दार पे भी यही बदमस्त नज़र ले के चलें
Click here for background and on any passage for word meanings and explanatory discussion. soz-kanti mohan (1935-xxxx), muraadabad and dehli. His life is illustrative of prevailing bigotry and the pull of urdu. His father went to school only up to 4th grade but read a lot – urdu, faarsi, hindi and sanskrit. His father wanted him to learn faarsi and urdu; was staunchly against communalism but the son joined RSS before 6th grade and was dead set against urdu. Never learnt urdu script. However his diction and pronunciation of urdu was strictly enforced by his urdu loving father. He got a PhD in hindi but his father was unhappy and considered him uneducated. During his PhD, he taught at a college, befriended a couple of urdu teachers, his love of urdu language surfaced, he got disillusioned with RSS and left the saNgh. First memory of poetic composition 1948 with many nazm on gandhi. Read classical shu’araa in naagiri script. BA in muradabad, MA and PhD in dehli. Joined the communist party (marxist) in 1964. Dedicates his book to ranadive, calling him ‘the greatest advocate of the democratic rights of urdu language’. He had published writings, which he classifies as urdu, in hindi magazines where it was largely ignored. Finally, his friends persuaded him to compile his Ghazal which he got published in urdu script, in 1990, even if he himself could not read or write it.
1
apni taariiKh1 se koii to asar2 le ke chaleN
apne kaandhe3 kisi mansoor4 ka sar le ke chaleN 1.history 2.influence, impact 3.shoulders 4.mansoor-al-hallaaj
mansoor-al-hallaaj (858-922) was a sufi scholar/mystic who travelled among other places to India, learnt sanskrit and read the vedas. Upon his return he continued to teach and acquired a following. He declared an-al-haq I am the Truth aham brahmasmi. He was charged with heresy and ordered executed unless he recanted. He refused, and was executed. He is held up as a symbol of defiance and courage in the face of oppression. Thus, let us draw a lesson from our history. Let us carry the head of mansoor on our shoulders i.e., let us defy oppression, in the face of execution.
2
uss gul-andaam1 ko viiraan’e2 kii pahchaan3 nahiiN
dil ke naqshe4 pe kisii qais5 kaa ghar6 le ke chaleN 1.rose-bodied 2.desolation 3.knowledge, recognition 4.map, sketch 5.majnuN 6.home
Here gul-andaam is symbolic of the priveleged and/or ruling class and qais ka ghar – the home of majnuN is desolation/desert. Thus, the priveleged have no recognition of what desolation/deprivation is. Let us carry a sketch of our destitution on our breast as we march demanding justice.
3
saarii tajviiz1 ko ek baar ulTnaa2 hogaa
ab nasheman3 ke liye shaaKh4-e shajar5 le ke chaleN 1.proposal, plan 2.overturn, turn upside down 3.nest 4.branch 5.tree
The people in power have a plan to build homes for us, the homeless. These are all hypocritical plans for ‘show and tell’. We have to overturn these plans. Let us take our own means (shaaKh-e shajar) to build our own dwellings.
4
uss kii mahfil1 meN samaajat2 ki koii poochh3 nahiiN
barq4 pahlu5 meN nigaahoN6 meN sharar7 le ke chaleN 1.gathering, presence 2.pleading 3.asking, hearing 4.lightning 5.side, beside 6.eyes 7.sparks
Here ‘uss‘ is used to mean the priveleged and the powerful. In their presence, there is no hearing for our pleading. Let us march their with lightning beside us and fiery sparks in our eyes.
5
aaKhrii-baar1 terii maan2 leN aye josh3-e junooN4
jins5-e dil yuN to hai naakaara6 magar7 le ke chaleN 1.last time 2.agree, accept 3.fervour 4.madness, passion 5.merchandise, commodity 6.useless 7.but
The commodity of the heart – jins-e dil – is love. O intensity of passion, this commodity of the heart is not of much use but let us take it with us, let us give it a chance one last time (before we undertake revolutionary change).
6
soz1 kii aan2 rahe, jaaN3 kii koii baat nahiiN
daar4 pe bhii yahii badmast5 nazar6 le ke chaleN 1.poet, pen-name 2.pride, dignity 3.life 4.gallows 5.intoxicated, ecstatic, defiant 6.eyes
Let the dignity of soz remain in place, steadfast; his life is of no consequence; it can be sacrificed. Even on the gallows let him carry his defiant ecstacy in his eyes.
soz-kanti mohan (1935-xxxx), muraadabad and dehli. His life is illustrative of prevailing bigotry and the pull of urdu. His father went to school only up to 4th grade but read a lot – urdu, faarsi, hindi and sanskrit. His father wanted him to learn faarsi and urdu; was staunchly against communalism but the son joined RSS before 6th grade and was dead set against urdu. Never learnt urdu script. However his diction and pronunciation of urdu was strictly enforced by his urdu loving father. He got a PhD in hindi but his father was unhappy and considered him uneducated. During his PhD, he taught at a college, befriended a couple of urdu teachers, his love of urdu language surfaced, he got disillusioned with RSS and left the saNgh. First memory of poetic composition 1948 – with many nazm on gandhi. Read classical shu’araa in naagiri script. BA in muradabad, MA and PhD in dehli. Joined the communist party (marxist) in 1964. Dedicates his book to ranadive, calling him ‘the greatest advocate of the democratic rights of urdu language’. He had published writings, which he classifies as urdu, in hindi magazines where it was largely ignored. Finally, his friends persuaded him to compile his Ghazal which he got published in urdu script, in 1990, even if he himself could not read or write it.
1
apni taariiKh1 se koii to asar2 le ke chaleN
apne kaandhe3 kisi mansoor4 ka sar le ke chaleN
1.history 2.influence, impact 3.shoulders 4.mansoor-al-hallaaj
mansoor-al-hallaaj (858-922) was a sufi scholar/mystic who travelled among other places to India, learnt sanskrit and read the vedas. Upon his return he continued to teach and acquired a following. He declared an-al-haq I am the Truth aham brahmasmi. He was charged with heresy and ordered executed unless he recanted. He refused, and was executed. He is held up as a symbol of defiance and courage in the face of oppression. Thus, let us draw a lesson from our history. Let us carry the head of mansoor on our shoulders i.e., let us defy oppression, in the face of execution.
2
uss gul-andaam1 ko viiraan’e2 kii pahchaan3 nahiiN
dil ke naqshe4 pe kisii qais5 kaa ghar6 le ke chaleN
1.rose-bodied 2.desolation 3.knowledge, recognition 4.map, sketch 5.majnuN 6.home
Here gul-andaam is symbolic of the priveleged and/or ruling class and qais ka ghar – the home of majnuN is desolation/desert. Thus, the priveleged have no recognition of what desolation/deprivation is. Let us carry a sketch of our destitution on our breast as we march demanding justice.
3
saarii tajviiz1 ko ek baar ulTnaa2 hogaa
ab nasheman3 ke liye shaaKh4-e shajar5 le ke chaleN
1.proposal, plan 2.overturn, turn upside down 3.nest 4.branch 5.tree
The people in power have a plan to build homes for us, the homeless. These are all hypocritical plans for ‘show and tell’. We have to overturn these plans. Let us take our own means (shaaKh-e shajar) to build our own dwellings.
4
uss kii mahfil1 meN samaajat2 ki koii poochh3 nahiiN
barq4 pahlu5 meN nigaahoN6 meN sharar7 le ke chaleN
1.gathering, presence 2.pleading 3.asking, hearing 4.lightning 5.side, beside 6.eyes 7.sparks
Here ‘uss‘ is used to mean the priveleged and the powerful. In their presence, there is no hearing for our pleading. Let us march their with lightning beside us and fiery sparks in our eyes.
5
aaKhrii-baar1 terii maan2 leN aye josh3-e junooN4
jins5-e dil yuN to hai naakaara6 magar7 le ke chaleN
1.last time 2.agree, accept 3.fervour 4.madness, passion 5.merchandise, commodity 6.useless 7.but
The commodity of the heart – jins-e dil – is love. O intensity of passion, this commodity of the heart is not of much use but let us take it with us, let us give it a chance one last time (before we undertake revolutionary change).
6
soz1 kii aan2 rahe, jaaN3 kii koii baat nahiiN
daar4 pe bhii yahii badmast5 nazar6 le ke chaleN
1.poet, pen-name 2.pride, dignity 3.life 4.gallows 5.intoxicated, ecstatic, defiant 6.eyes
Let the dignity of soz remain in place, steadfast; his life is of no consequence; it can be sacrificed. Even on the gallows let him carry his defiant ecstacy in his eyes.
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