MALALE TRAVITH | Kalam-e-Mahjoor | Abdul Rashid Hafiz | Lyrics w/ Subtitles | Kashmiri Sufism

سُے ہو اوس تے سُے ہو آسی
He (Allah) was, and He shall remain/He alone was, and he alone will be.

سُے سُے کری زے ہَے زُوٕ⁠
O' my soul, remember Him continually "Zikr" (chant His name).

سُے سأری اندیشہ کاسی
He will remove/ solve all your worries/anxieties.

ہَے زُوٕ پایَس پیتو
O' my Soul, cling to His feet, attach yourself to Him/Him only, place your trust in Him.

سُہ چُھنہ وچھان کیلس تہ کالس
He (Allah)) does not look at the body and its form/outer appearance.

سُہ چُھ وچھان دلکس حالس کُن
He looks at the condition of the heart (the state of heart / inner devotion).

تیمسُند یاد کر زیو دِتھ تالس
Remember Him with deep sincerity and devotion, by chanting His name with the tongue and Heart.

اَدٕ یے راز ہوز زالس منز
Then this secret (of existence/being) will be revealed in the net (of life & death).

مقامہ مہمود مقام بیوٗٹُھم
I desired/attained/made the Praised/high station of 'Maqam-e-Mahmood' my residence (A high Spiritual rank).

فرض تہ سنت بأونم کأتی
I made the (Fardh) and the (Sunnah) prayers obligatory & permanent practice.

سمندرس جہاز تورم
I sailed the ship across the ocean (of life/mysticism).

جہاز پان کیہنہ اوسم نہ ستٕھی
Though I myself was nothing but straw (insignificant/humble).


This is a deeply spiritual poem in Kashmiri by the revered saint, Sheikh-ul-Alam (RA) (Nund Rishi). It speaks about the eternal nature of God, the importance of inner devotion, and the poet's own spiritual journey.

Mahjoor "The poet of Kashmir" was born on 11 August 1887 and died on 9th of April 1952. His actual name was Peerzada Ghulam Ahmad and his father’s name was Peerzada Abdullah Shah.
He was a patwari by profession and possessed great power of imagination which he used in creating art with a distinction. It was this ability which earned him the title of the Poet of Kashmir.
He is considered as a poet who revolutionized the traditional forms of poetry which put him in the company of great poets of the valley.
His contemporary writers/ poets were, Zinda Koul, Abdul Ahad Azad and Dinnath Nadim He is noted for introducing a new style into Kashmiri poetry which pushed it into great realms of art created for arts sake.
He introduced his pen name Mahjoor when he visited Punjab and started writing poetry under the influence of great Urdu poet, Shibli Noamani. He followed in the academic footsteps of his father, who was a scholar of Persian language. 
He received the primary education from the Maktab of Aashiq Trali (a renowned poet) in Tral. After passing the middle school examination from Nusrat-ul-Islam School, Srinagar, he went to Punjab where he came in contact with Urdu poets like Bismil Amritsari and Moulana Shibli Nomani.
He returned to Srinagar in 1908 and started writing in Persian and then in Urdu. But he was more interested to writing in his native language to express his emotions. He spent his free time writing poetry, and his first Kashmiri poem ‘Vanta hay Vesy’ was published in 1918
The ability and proficiency of Mahjoor as a leading twentieth century Kashmiri poet has been accepted by all in the state as well as in the country. He is great because he symbolizes the brilliance of the Romantic movement of the Kashmiri literature.
Through his verses in Kashmiri, Mahjoor also contributed to the sentiment and movement of freedom struggle during the tyrannical and autocratic Dogra regime.

In other beautiful poem, “Gulshan Watan Chu Souni” Mahjoor expresses his love for his nation and breathes out the idea symbolically and that too with candor and pride that there is nothing dear to him than his nation.
“Bulbul wanan chu poshan gulshan watan chu souni
Andi andi safaid sangar deware sange mar mar”

There is no doubt that the themes of the poetry of Mahjoor involved freedom and progress in Kashmir and his poems awakened latent nationalism among people against the regime of those times.
His popular verses engaged such topics as love, communal harmony, social reform, and the plight of the Kashmiris. He also wrote on such timeless themes as youth, the flowers of Nishat Garden, peasant girls, gardeners, and the blond shades.
Mahjoor through his immortal verses teaches lessons about nature, love, peace, unity, faith in God, upholding of human values, uselessness of strife, jealousy and hatred. His poems reveal that he is a poet with lofty ideals and aspirations.

He is simple and writes with great variety and it is due to this distinct artistic quality that he has been able to write lyrics, songs, odes, elegies, prose, biography, novel, translations, and criticism.
Mehjoor, stands out as a poet par excellence for his valuable contribution towards Kashmiri poetry. He could be easily called as the harbinger of modern Kashmiri poetry, because he widened and diversified its parameters, enriched its language and extended its use of idiom and put it on the pedestal of vibrancy and exuberance.