From : KhamoshTamashai
Added: Sep 12, 2009
The Poet: Muhammad Taqi محمّد تقی , (takhallus: Mir میر), commonly known as Mir Taqi Mir میر تقی میر was born in Agra آگرہ (then Akbarabad اکبر آباد ), UP, India in 1723 CE. He moved to Delhi when he was about 11 years old. He left for Lukhnow لکھنؤ sometimes after 1748 CE, where he died in 1810 CE. It is said that in the first mushaira مشاعرہ (a gathering where poets sing ghazals to a live audience) he attended in Lukhnow, people were not attentive since they did not know him. Some started passing remarks like, who is this guy?, ... where is he from? In response, he said these verses, most probably extempore: کیا بود و باش پوچھو ہو پورب کے ساکنو؟ ہم کو غریب جان کے ، ہنس ہنس پکار کے دلی جو ایک شہر تھا عالم میں انتخاب رہتے تھے منتخب ہی جہاں روزگار کے جسکو فلک نے لوٹ کے ویران کر دیا ہم رہنے والے ہیں اسی اجڑے دیار کے There was a pin-drop silence after that. His time is when the Urdu اردو language was evolving from various local dialects and Arabi, Farsi, and Turkish. Farsi was still the language of the Mughal court, but it had people from all the Muslim countries coming to India for work. Urdu itself means a camp in Turkish. One term used for early Urdu is Rekhta ریختہ (meaning, in Farsi: the scatterd, or the broken) . Mirza Ghalib, who was born 73 years after him has said: ریختہ کے تمہیں استاد نہیں ہو غالب کہتے ہیں اگلے زمانے میں کوئ میر بھی تھا (Ghalib, you are not the only master of Rekhta, they say in the olden times there was someone named Mir). Mir used a nice blend of Farsi and Hindic terms. His poetry is known for taghazzul تغزل (difficult term to translate, but roughly, the best characteristics of ghazal). His Kulliyyat consist of more than 13,000 ash'aar اشعار , containing different forms of poetry, i.e.,ghazal, masnavi, qasida, rubai, mustezaad, and hejv (satire). Looking at the content, it is full of pathos, melancholy, and Sufi themes. He expresses the human sorrows and pain in a very personal manner. He is from the Delhi school of Urdu ghazal (more personal, full of emotions, expressing sadness), as compared to the Luckhnow school (with lofty language). That is why he is one of the best loved ghazal writers in Urdu poetry. He is indeed one of the pillars of Urdu poetry. He is called Shahinshah-e Ghazal شہنشاہِ غزل and Khuda-e Sukhan خداۓ سخن . The Singer: C.H. Atma خاموش تماشائی (KhamoshTamashai)
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