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Recitation

راہگزر  یاد  آیا  ۔  حبیب  جالبؔ

۱

لوک  گیتوں  کا  نگر  یاد  آیا

آج  پردیس  میں  گھر  یاد  آیا

۲

جب  چلے  آئے  چمن  زار  سے  ہم

اِلتفاتِ  گُلِ  تر  یاد  آیا

۳

تیری  بیگانہ  نگاہی  سرِ  شام

یہ  ستم  تا  بہ  سحر  یاد  آیا

۴

ہم  زمانے  کے  ستم  بھول  گئے

جب  ترا  لُطفِ  نظر  یاد  آیا

۵

تو  بھی  مسحُور  تھا  اُس  شب  سرِ  بزم

اپنے  شعروں  کا  اثر  یاد  آیا

۶

پھر  ہوا  دردِ  تمنّا  بیدار

پھر  دلِ  خاک  بہ  سر  یاد  آیا

۷

ہم  جسے  بھول  گئے  تھے  جالبؔ

پھر  وہی  راہگزر  یاد  آیا

राहगुज़र याद आया-हबीब जालिब

१

लोक-गीतौं का नगर याद आया

आज परदेस में घर याद आया

२

जब चले आए चमन-ज़ार से हम

इल्तेफ़ात-ए गुल-ए तर याद आया

३

तेरी बेगाना-निगाही सर-ए शाम

ये सितम ता ब सहर याद आया

४

हम ज़माने के सितम भूल गये

जब तेरा लुत्फ़-ए नज़र याद आया

५

तू भी महसूर था उस शब सर-ए बज़्म

अपने शेरौं का असर याद आया

६

फिर हुआ दर्द-ए तमन्ना बेदार

फिर दिल-ए ख़ाक ब-सर याद आया

७

हम जिसे भूल गये थे जालिब

फिर वही राहगुज़र याद आया

Click here for background and on any passage for word meanings and explanatory discussion. habib jalib (1929-1993), people’s poet. Wrote and spoke/recited fearlessly against dictatorship, inequality and injustice in simple straightforward language. This Ghazal, in the zamin of Ghalib’s, ‘diida-e tar yaad aaya’ is linked to ‘Ghalib naqsh-e qadam’.

habib jalib (1929-1993), people’s poet.  Wrote and spoke/recited fearlessly against dictatorship, inequality and injustice in simple straightforward language.  This Ghazal, in the zamin of Ghalib’s, ‘diida-e tar yaad aaya’ is linked to ‘Ghalib naqsh-e qadam’.

1.folk songs 2.homeland 3.foreign land

habib jaalib was born in a small village in hoshiarpur district.  In his late teens, when the family migrated to the pakistan side of the border, it is possible that he remembers it and means his birthplace as home and that it is known for its folk-songs.  In this context he considers lahore ‘foreign’ or ‘away from home’ and remembers the folk-songs of his birthplace.

1.garden 2.love, pleasures 3.fresh rose

When we left that expansive garden, memories of fresh flowers return.  Fresh flowers could here literally mean that, or loving associations of his homeland.

1.ignoring/casual glance 2.beginning of the evening 3.cruelty 4.until dawn

Your casual glance last night, as if I were a stranger – I remembered its cruelty all through the night until dawn.

1.times 2.cruelties 3.pleasure, favourable 4.glance

I forgot the cruelties of the times when I remembered your loving glance.

1.enchanted, enraptured 2.night 3.head/front of the gathering 4.verse 5.effect

You too were enraptured in front of the whole gathering.  I remember, such was the effect of verse.

1.pain 2.desire, longing 3.awake 4.dust 5.on the head

Again, the pain of longing for you refreshed.  Again, I remembered my dust-trodden and trampled heart.  Is he still remembering the village of his birth?

1.pen-name of the poet 2.walkway, pathway

That which we had already forgotten, O jaalib, once again, memories of that pathway came back.  This could be the walkway that the beloved traveled or it could be any walkway in the village of his birth.   Said Ghalib …

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