SOM NATH SADHU , FAROQQ NAZKI AND INTESAAB..

                                           

SOM NATH SADHU , FAROQQ NAZKI AND INTESAAB..

INTESAAB ( Dedication ) is a thought provoking poem of Faiz Ahmed Faiz . It reflects poet’s unwavering commitment towards the marginalised , downtrodden and sufferers . A dedication to labourers , Tongawallas ,farmers , factory workers , housewives , young boys , girls, students and suffering women. With powerful imagery, poem 'Intesab' is the anthem of the oppressed and the betrayed. It is dedicated to the forgotten, ignored , banished , unheard and unacknowledged . A dedication to their collective pain , suffering and sorrow .I quote some lines from this great poem of Faiz.....

“Aaj ke naam

Aur

Aaj ke gham ke naam

Aaj ka gham ki hai zindagi ke bhare gulistaan se khafaa

Zard Patton ka ban

Zard patton ka ban jo mera des hai

Dard ki anjuman jo mera des hai.....

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un dukhi maaon ke naam

raat mein jin ke bachche bilakhate hain aur

neend kii maar khaaye hue baazuuon se sanbhalate nahin

dukh bataate nahiin

Minnaton zaariyon se bahalate nahiin'

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( Dedicated to this day

And to the sorrows of these times,

The sorrow of these times

set against the garden of life

brimming with flowers .

My land ,my motherland is nothing but a 

forest of pale leaves.

My land, My motherland,

 an assembly of suffering and pain .....

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Dedicated to those unhappy mothers 

Whose children weep and wail at night 

And then are cradled in tired and sleep deprived shoulders and arms . 

A dedication to those mothers who shall never tell their woes 

And will not be consoled by tears and entreaties) 

And then what about poet Farooq Nazki’s “Intesaab” for his closest friend and dear colleague Som Nath Sadhu. Nazki’s anguish over the loss of composite culture in Kashmir is deep and profound . He misses Kamla Ji ( Kamli ) who was like a mother to him ..Why was Kamla Ji (mother of Som Nath Sadhu ) made to leave Kashmir ? What had this simple and god fearing woman done? I quote him....

 

“Ek Intesaab Aur

Som Nath Sadhu, 

Teray naam.

Jaanta hai tumhari maa, 

Kamli,

Kashmir chho’rr kar gayi hai

Aur apnay saath chaandi ki woh thaali bhi ley gayi hai

Jis mein woh 

Hum donon kay liye khaana parosti thi.

Kya tu jaanta hai ke

Woh meray dar se kashmir se bhaag gayi hai.

Tumhaara,

Farooq.”

My English rendering of these lines would be .......

" Once More a dedication to you ,

My Somnath Sadhu,

 Do you know Kamli ,

Your mother ,

Left Kashmir,

Taking her silver plate along ,

Yes the very plate ,

from which you and I ate ,

the food that she served us,

Do you know Som Nath Sadhu ,

Fearing me ,

She left Kashmir.

Your Farooq "

( Farooq Nazki )

This poem of Farooq Nazki comes close to a poem of Sindhi poet Sheikh Ayaaz that he dedicated to his closest friend and eminent Sindhi poet Narayan Shyam. In 1947, Narayan Shyam moved to India while Sheikh Ayaaz stayed back in Sindh..

( Avtar Mota )

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