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    Hindustani Lyrics
    Hindustani Lyrics
    Hindustani Lyrics
    Ebook97 pages45 minutes

    Hindustani Lyrics

    By Jessie Duncan Westbrook and Inayat Khan

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Hindustani Lyrics - Jessie Duncan Westbrook

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Hindustani Lyrics, by Various

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Hindustani Lyrics

      Author: Various

      Translator: Inayat Khan and Jessie Westbrook

      Release Date: February 7, 2006 [EBook #17711]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HINDUSTANI LYRICS ***

      Produced by Ron Swanson

      ZAFAR.

      HINDUSTANI LYRICS

      RENDERED FROM THE URDU

      BY

      INAYAT KHAN

      AND

      JESSIE DUNCAN WESTBROOK

      Sufism is the Religious Philosophy of Love, Harmony, and Beauty

      LONDON:

      THE SUFI PUBLISHING SOCIETY, LTD.,

      86, LADBROKE ROAD, LONDON, W. 11.

      All rights reserved.

      1919

      CONTENTS.

      PORTRAIT OF ZAFAR

      FOREWORD

      URDU LYRICS:—

      ABRU

      AMIR

      ASIF

      DAGH

      FIGHAN

      GHALIB

      HALI

      HASAN

      INSHA

      JURAT

      MIR

      MIR SOZ

      MIR TAQI

      MOMIN

      MUSHAFI

      MUZTAR

      NASIKH

      SAUDA

      SHAMSHAD

      TABAN

      WALI

      YAKRANG

      ZAFAR

      ZAHIR

      ZAUQ

      FRAGMENTS:—

      ARZU

      GHALIB

      HATIM

      MAZHAR

      MIR DARD

      MIR SOZ

      MIR TAQI

      SAUDA

      TABAN

      GLOSSARY

      FOREWORD.

      Of the many languages of India, Urdu (Hindustani) is the most widely known, especially in Upper India. Both as a written and a spoken language it has a reputation throughout Asia for elegance and expressiveness. Until the time of Muhammad Shah, Indian poetry was written in Persian. But that monarch, who mounted the throne of Delhi in 1719, greatly desired to make Urdu the vogue, and under his patronage and approval, Hatim, one of his ministers, and Wali of the Deccan, wrote Diwans in Urdu. This patronage of poets was continued by his successors, and exists indeed to the present day; and the cultivation of Urdu poetry has always been encouraged at the many Courts of India. Some of the Indian Rulers are themselves poets, and find their duty and pleasure in rewarding with gifts and pensions the literary men whose works they admire. The Court of Hyderabad has for long had a circle of poets: the late Nizam was himself eminent as a writer of verse. The Maharaja-Gaekwar of Baroda is a generous patron of literary men, and the present Rulers of lesser States such as Patiala, Nabha, Tonk, and Rampur, are deeply interested in the cultivation of poetry in their Dominions.

      In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries many towns in India had extensive and flourishing literary coteries, and it is from the poets Of that period that this handful of verses is gathered. The Mushaira—a poetical concourse, wherein rival poets meet to try their skill in a tournament of verse—is still an institution in India. Delhi, Agra, Lucknow, Lahore, Cawnpore, Allahabad, Benares, Calcutta, and Hyderabad, have all been, and some still are, nests of singing birds. Of the extent of Urdu literature some idea may be gained from the fact that a History of it written about 1870 gives the names of some three thousand authors, and that Tazkiras or anthologies containing selections from many poets are very numerous.

      The poetry is very varied and of great interest. It includes moral verses and counsels, sometimes in intermingled verse and prose; heroic poems telling the old tales of the loves of Khusru and Shirin, of Yusuf and Zuleika, of Majnun and Leila, and the romances of chivalry; elegies on the deaths of Hasan and Hussein, and of various monarchs; devotional poems in praise of Muhammad and the Imams; eulogies of the reigning Ruler or other patron or protector of the poor; satires upon men and institutions, sometimes upon Nature herself, specially upon such phenomena as heat, cold, inundations and pestilence; descriptive verse relating to the seasons and the months, the flowers and the trees. Above all there is a great wealth

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