Niaz o Naz Ke Jhagde Mitaye Jate Hain – JIGAR MORADABADI | URDU POETRY

Romantic Urdu Poetry by JIGAR MORADABADI. Recited by Raheel Farooq.

Ghazal: Nazar Milate Nahin Muskuraye Jate Hain

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POET

Sheikh Ali Sikandar ( 1890-1960), known as a poet with the pen name of Jigar, was born at Moradabad, a place that he suffixed with his name like many other poets did as a matter of tradition. He did not receive any regular or formal education but learnt Persian at the initial stage and English at the level of his matriculation. He came to be known as an epicurean and a highly sociable man of pleasant disposition. He also acquired a somewhat mythic reputation as one who must drink in order to please the muse. Later, he abandoned this way of life and sought solace in a religious way of life.

Jigar got his first lessons in poetry from his father, Ali Nazar, who was a poet himself before he sought occasional advice from major poets like Dagh Dehlavi and Asghar Gondavi with whom he also lived in Gonda as a friend and benefactor. He emerged as a poet of acute romantic leanings and evolved a poetics that suited his thematic preferences and gave a definite identity to his poetry. He also earned his reputation as an iconic mushaira poet who earned huge applause from the audience. Known essentially for his ghazal that represented the stock themes of love and wine in a manner characterised by a unique musicality, he published his first collection Daagh-e-Jigar in 1928 followed by Shola-i-Toor in 1932. His third collection Aatish-e-Gul which appeared more than two decades later in 1954 earned him the prestigious Sahitya Akademi award. Jigar retains his position as one of the pillars of ghazal before the coming of the high modernists.

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Full Text of the Urdu Ghazal in Roman Transliteration (Courtesy: Rekhta):

niyāz o naaz ke jhagḌe miTā.e jaate haiñ
ham un meñ aur vo ham meñ samā.e jaate haiñ

shurū-e-rāh-e-mohabbat are ma.āz-allāh
ye haal hai ki qadam Dagmagā.e jaate haiñ

ye nāz-e-husn to dekho ki dil ko taḌpā kar
nazar milāte nahīñ muskurā.e jaate haiñ

mire junūn-e-tamannā kā kuchh ḳhayāl nahīñ
lajā.e jaate haiñ dāman chhuḌā.e jaate haiñ

jo dil se uThte haiñ sho.ale vo rañg ban ban kar
tamām manzar-e-fitrat pe chhā.e jaate haiñ

maiñ apnī aah ke sadqe ki merī aah meñ bhī
tirī nigāh ke andāz paa.e jaate haiñ

ravāñ davāñ liye jaatī hai ārzū-e-visāl
kashāñ kashāñ tire nazdīk aa.e jaate haiñ

kahāñ manāzil-e-hastī kahāñ ham ahl-e-fanā
abhī kuchh aur ye tohmat uThā.e jaate haiñ

mirī talab bhī usī ke karam kā sadqa hai
qadam ye uThte nahīñ haiñ uThā.e jaate haiñ

ilāhī tark-e-mohabbat bhī kyā mohabbat hai
bhulāte haiñ unheñ vo yaad aa.e jaate haiñ

sunā.e the lab-e-nai se kisī ne jo naġhme
lab-e-'jigar' se mukarrar sunā.e jaate haiñ

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