Meg Index | July 2001 Index

Date: 16-Jul-2001
Poet: Qateel Shifai


Qateel Shifai's words and Mehdi Hassan's voice can only mean magic for the listeners. Here is a beautiful nazm, well known to most Urdu poetry lovers:


zindagii me.n to sabhii pyaar kiyaa karate hai.n 
mai.n to mar kar bhii merii jaan tujhe chaahuu.Ngaa 

tuu milaa hai to ye ehasaas huaa hai mujh ko 
ye merii umr mohabbat ke liye tho.Dii hai 
ik zaraa saa Gam-e-dauraa.N kaa bhii haq hai jis par 
mai.n ne vo saa.Ns bhii tere liye rakh chho.Dii hai 
tujh pe ho jaa_uu.Ngaa qurbaan tujhe chaahuu.ngaa 

apane jazbaat me.n naGmaat rachaane ke liye 
mai.n ne dha.Dakan kii tarah dil me.n basaayaa hai tujhe 
mai.n tasavvur bhii judaa_ii kaa bhalaa kaise karuu.N 
mai.n ne qismat kii lakiiro.n se churaayaa hai tujhe 
pyaar kaa ban ke nigeh_baan tujhe chaahuu.ngaa 

terii har chaap se jalate hai.n Khayaalo.n me.n chiraaG 
jab bhii tuu aaye jagaataa huaa jaaduu aaye 
tujh ko chhuu luu.N to phir ai jaan-e-tamannaa mujh ko 
der tak apane badan se terii Khushbuu aaye 
tuu bahaaro.n kaa hai unavaan tujhe chaahuu.Ngaa