Showing posts with label Muhammad Iqbal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Muhammad Iqbal. Show all posts

Thursday, 4 June 2009

na aadamii kaa ko_ii bharosaa

na aadamii kaa ko_ii bharosaa written by Shakeel Badayuni for Aadmi (1968), had the following lines

na husn meN ab vo dilkashii hai na ishq meN ab vo zindagii hai
jidhar nigaaheN uThaa ke dekho sitam hai dhoka hai beruKii hai


which echoes this sher of Iqbal from one of his Ghazals

na vo ishq meN raheeN garmiyaan na vo husn meN raheeN shoKiyaaN
na vo Gazanavii meN taRap rahii na vo Kam hai zulf-e-ayaaz meN

Two years before, in 1966 this Iqbal GHazal was sung by Lata in Dulhan Ek Raat Ki.



Wednesday, 30 January 2008

chiin-o-arab hamaaraa

Muhammad Iqbal wrote the nazm 'taraana-e-millii":
chiin-o-arab hamaaraa hindostaa.n hamaaraa
muslim hai.n ham watan hai saaraa jahaa.n hamaaraa


Sahir Ludhiyanvi parodied it for Phir Subah Hogi (1958) as:
chiin-o-arab hamaaraa hindostaa.n hamaaraa
rahne ko ghar nahii.n hai saaraa jahaa.n hamaaraa