Abu ji

Every night I have to sleep with the fact that you are no more with us. Yet closer than ever before. I am surrounded by your sweet memories and heart-melting flashes from the years we spent together. Deep down I know your absence is temporary. One day we'll be reuniting up there. But that one day is far away. It hurts; when I call you and get no response. When I want to see you or touch you and you are not there. That's when I realise you have gone far far away. This pain keeps pinching my heart.

"My Lord, have mercy upon them as they brought me up [when I was] small." (Al Quran 17:23)

I love you and miss you even more!!!


Beti

A Ghazal

apni he  awaz  ko  beshak  kaan  main     rakhna
lekin shehr ki khamoshi bhi dhyan  main rakhna

meray    jhoot  ko  kholo  bhi   aur  tolo bhi  tum
lekin   apnay   sach  ko  bhi  mezan main rakhna

kl   tareekh   yaqeenan   khud    ko  duhraye     gi
aaj  k  ik  ik  manzar  ko  pehchan   main  rakhna

aaj tu   ay   dil   tarq- e- taluq  pr   tum  khush  ho
kl  k  pachtaway  ko  bhi   imkaan    main  rakhna

iss   drya   se   aagay   aik   samandar    bhi     hay
aur  wo  be- sahil  hay  ye bhi dhyan main rakhna

iss  mausam  main  guldanoN  ki rasm kahaN hay
logo! ab   phooloN  ko   aatish-dan  main   rakhna


Poet: Ahmed Faraz
Book: Qaid e Tanhai

kuch batein unkahi rehnay do

Ishtebah e zehn

kabhi youn bhi hota hay kisi lateefay pr apko hansi nahi bulkay rona aa jata hay. abhi zehn main aik lateefa aya, kai baar sun chuki hoon kai baar suna chuki hoon aur is pr hr baar he hansti rhi hoon. lekin aaj usi lateefay pr kitna rona aa rha hay. aaj mujhay kahin se ye lateefa nahi lg rha. ye tu kahani hay, baar baar duhraai janay wali kahani.

kehtay hain:

ek marasi ny chauhdhry ki beti ka rishta manga. chaudhry ne marasi ki khoob pitaai lagwaii. maar kha k marasi ny phir wohi sawal duhraya. ab ki baar chaudhry ne us ki aesi durgat banwaii aur apnay nokroN se keh kr ussay ghar se bahar phainkwa dia. is pr marasi utha or apne kaprey jhaar kar bola "fair mein inkaar e samjhaan"!!!

Sufi Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum Sb. ki likhi hui bachon ki aik nazm hay "munnay ro lay". mujhay aaj tk smjh nahi i k issay bachon ki nazm kion kahan jata hay. ye tu barroN k liay hay.

Nazm kuch youn hay:

Holay Holay Holay

Ro lay munnay Ro lay

jesay chirriya gana gaye

jesay meena raag sunaye

jesay bulbul bolay

Rol lay munnay Ro lay

abba ko awaz na jaye

ammi bhi sun.nay na paye

gurriya aankh na kholay

Holay Holay Holay

jitna chahay ro lay.

Sea

5 Nov. 2014

G 7/1, Islamabad

Hawa e Dil Mera Shoq-e-Safar Nahin Jaata

Udhar Bhi Jaata Hoon Rasta Jidhar Nahin Jaata

Qayaam Jaisi Koi Haalat-e-Safar Hy Meri

Parinda Jaisay Hawa Main Thaher Nahin Jaata

Jhulas Rahi Hy Abhi Tak Wo An'Kahi Mujh Ko

Ye Aiyb-e-Ishq Ye Daagh-e-Hunar Nahin Jaata

Shayd

shayd kl ki achi guzray

shayd mausam acha ho

shayd dhund k parday main say

charhta suraj poora ho

shayd be-kal, kal na howay

shayd chota rasta ho

shayd bagh dareechay main ik

jana jana chehra ho

shayd rut rangeen ho jaye

shayd badal chaya ho

shayd meray shor k ander

ik sannata ghalib ho

shayd sb ko wehma guzray

shayd pagal razi ho

shayd khud se batain kr k

apna khwab he sacha ho

Aneeq Ahmed Khan

Come back to see how deeply I need you,
Come back to find me awake in the middle of the long nights,
No, no, l'm wrong, your separation will not leave me alive,
You won't see me any more on your return.

"I will be waiting here
For your silence to break
For your soul to shake
For your love to wake."

dard bhi is trha se hota hay
jesay phir dard he nahi hona

She died

I want to die.

I want to die.

I want to die.

She committed suicide today. People wonder "aenni parrhi likhi ho k, aenni kamyab ho k ae kum kitta! barri nashukri kitti" (that she must not have done this act as she was so learned and so successful. Indeed she was ungrateful).

I do not agree with them. I know this kind of knowledge, this awareness brings more desperation and frustration in one's being. You may manage to make them believe that you are having an excellent life but you cannot justify to yourself.

Perhaps she was having an affair.
Perhaps she was dis-heart over a minor dispute.

Or she was annoyed.

She felt like a loser.

She quit.

Peace, she wanted but will never find.
Escape was not the right solution, but she did.
Written in response to Nabiha Ch.'s death.