I welcome You, Oh! The Month of Moharram ! With a stream of tears rolling down my eyes, I welcome you, Oh! The month of Moharram. As you c...
I welcome You, Oh! The Month of Moharram !
With a stream of tears rolling down my eyes,
I welcome you, Oh! The month of Moharram.
As you change the year of Islamic calendar,
You fill the hearts with pain and sorrow;
You revive the memory of an unequalled grief,
Which offers the hope for a better tomorrow.
With a storm of pride rocking my soul,
I welcome you, Oh! The month of Moharram.
Embedded in your name is the glory of my faith,
Hidden in your days are the wails and woes;
Lying in your lap is the scale of truth,
To draw a line between friends and foes.
With an ocean of piety, giving me frenzied thrills,
I welcome you, Oh! The month of Moharram.
You witnessed the journey of the Prophet's family,
Who faced death, anguish and agony for Allah's Sake;
The eternal verities which they preserved,
All the brutal onslaughts have failed to shake.
Haqeeqate abadee hei muqame Shabbeeree,
Badalte rahtey hein andaze Kufiyo Shamee."
(The position of Shabbeer (Hazrat Imam Husain)
represents an everlasting reality,
Though the ways (of atrocities) of Koofa ( Karbala ) and
Sham( Syria ) keep changing.)
"Sir Dr. Allama Iqbal"
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Dr.Mustafa Kamal Sherwani,LL. D.
Chairman, All India Muslim Forum
Lucknow,U.P. India
sherwanimk@yahoo. com
+91-9919777909
+91-522-2733715
I was terribly impressed by the poem of Dr. M.K.Sherwani
and found no better way to express my appreciation than
converting his English poem into an Urdu Nazm with
utmost care to make a word-to-word translation. More often than not, it is extremely difficult to convert English poem into Urdu Nazm in view of hard rules of Urdu poetry in regard to Bahr, Radeef and Qafiya...
Jawaid Badauni.
ZabaN ne meri Moharram khush aamdeed kaha
Magar ik ashk miree aaNkh se Tapakta raha
Ik aisa maah jo laya hai saal-e nau ki Khabar
Ik aisa maah jo karta hai chaak qulb.o jigar
Ik aisa maah ke jo gham ki yaad laata hai
Umeed-e subH bhi jo shub ke baa’d lata hai
Yeh woh mahina hai jis per hai mere dil ko naaz
Khush aamadeed ka nara hai qalb ki aawaaz
Hai is maheene se waabasta deen.e Haq ka vaqaar
Kiya isee ke shub.o.roz ka ghamoN ne Hisaar
Isee mahene meN Haq ka huuwa buland maqaam
Isee mahine ne aa'da ke bhi bataaye naam
Nah dil tha bus men mire aur na qaid meN jazbaat
Khush aamadeeedd Moharaam kaha uTha ke haath
Yeh woh mahina hai dekha tha jis ne qahr-e sitam
Rah-e Khuda meN sahe Aale Mustafa* ne alam
Woh Haq ko baKhsh ke ik jawidaaN Hayat gaye
SitamgaroN ke sitam kha ke unse maat gaye
* SAWW
Jawaid Badauni
