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Date: 18-Oct-2000
Poet: Yahya Jasdanwala
I received a number of requests to provide the lyrics of the other
ghazals in the Begum Akhtar album that I mentioned in my earlier
posts. So this week's remaining posts will feature the three remaining
ghazals.
Like I mentioned earlier, all the ghazals in this album ("Malika-e-Gazal
Begum Akhtar in Mehfil") have been penned by Yahya Jasdanwala. It
is a live recording but apart from a few comments that Begum Akhtar
makes during the course of the ghazals, you wouldn't know it to be so.
I love Begum Akhtar's style, her voice, her 'gaayaki'. For me, she is
indeed "Malika-e-Ghazal". I wish there were more of her ghazal albums.
The album has five ghazals:
1. jahaa.N ban ban ke aas dil kii TuuTiijaatii hai
2. josh par phir hai tabiyat tere diivaano.n kii
3. dil kii lagii ko aur vo bha.Dakaa rahe hai.n aaj
4. jaan-e-sukuun aa bhii jaa teraa hii intazaar hai
5. ek bekasii hai hijr ke maaro.n ke saath saath
Of these, I have already posted #2 and #5
Here is ghazal #1 from the album:
jahaa.N ban ban ke aas dil kii TuuTii jaatii hai
vahii.n qismat kha.Dii bechaaragii pe muskuraatii hai
[bechaaragii = helplessness]
Gam-e-ulfat ke haatho.n jo miTaa be-aasaraa ho kar
usii paamaal-e-Gam ko haaye ab duniyaa sataatii hai
[be-aasaraa = without hope; paamaal = downtrodden]
[paamaal-e-Gam = ]
kahaa.N rahataa hai qaabuu phir dil-e-naakaam par mujh ko
ke jab rah rah ke tanahaa_ii me.n terii yaad aatii hai
[qaabuu = control]
??? muntazar to huu.N vafuur-e-shauq me.n "Yahya"
magar ab dekhiye un kii tajallii kyaa dikhaatii hai
[muntazar = waiting; vafuur = abundance; tajallii = manifestation]
** ??? is not a riddle. :-) I couldn't make out the word from
the recording and I would really appreciate it if someone
who has heard this ghazal and knows what the word is/should be,
provides me with some hints **
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