MIRZA DAGH DAHLVI

Introduction

Mirza Dagh Dahlvi was born in25 may 1831 at Dahli. His father Nawab Shasm uddin Ahmad Khan was the Empire of Firoz Pur Jherkah. His birth name was Ibrahim but changed to Dagh due to the saying of relatives. The house in which Dagh born is situated at Chandni Chaok of Dili (Dahli) & now called the house of Ostad Dagh. He was 4 years old when his father involved in murdered case as result He hanged till death.

Dagh started writing poetry at the age of 12 years. He was the great writer of urdu poetry and ghazals. In the era of Allama Iqbal & Mirza Ghalib he wrote the perfect ghazal. He has more than five thousands (5000) students. Allama was also the student of Dagh. Dagh opened his eyes during the downfall of his country, the downfall not in politics but also in literature. His poetry is the image of feelings and thoughts. Which means the part of animals of human nature.

Now I write the unique poetry of Dagh. In which he described his thoughts about paradise.

Shoq main janat ky hy mati kharab

Chain sy dunia me kia adam rahy

He told his concept of paradise in poetry, according to him human will live in paradise million years and the will get million years old hooren. He don’t want to get hooren because he knows that the human don’t afford the 40, 45 years old woman.

Jis me lakhu baras ki hooren hu

Aisi janat ka kia kary koi.

He was in favor of dignity of human. He knows that the angels have specific property and do specific work only. But humans have different properties such as some good and bad properties. They also see the different color of nature. These different colors are the destiny of humans.

Farishty bhi dhikhen to khol jain ankheen

Bashar ko woh jalwy dikhay gay hain

The love of Dagh was not so strong and his lover leaves him alone due to the falling in the love of another person. The he said

Tu hy harjai to apna bhi yahi taor sahi

Tu nahi aur sahi, aur nahi aur sahi…….

               

Edhr dunia hy, odhr dil hy

Jis ko chaha otha k dikh lia

Yeh kia kaha ky hy tu kis me shumar

Yakta hu me hazar me kia so hazar me

At the end

Tum kahty ho mashoq ita’at nahi krty

Aashiq bhi to mashoq ka nokar nahi hota.

WRITER: MUHAMMAD YOUSIF SAANI