Sufi Poetry/ Mirza Ghalib
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Some griefs cannot be carried in translation. In the face of a child’s death, it is poetry—in Urdu and Punjabi—that holds what prose cannot.
By Mariam Tahir Butt
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"Lest we forget: It is easy to be human, very hard to be humane."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/mirza-...
✒ Poet #MirzaGhalib passed away #OTD 15 February 1869. #Poetry #Literature
ہم کہاں کے دانا تھے کس ہنر میں یکتا تھے
بے سبب ہوا غالبؔ دشمن آسماں اپنا
مرزا غالب
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Ghalib’s libertine wit was not irreverence but method: paradox as a bridge to Wahdat al-Wujud, where art becomes the language of the ineffable.
By Madiha Arsalan Haneef
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Was Mirza Ghalib a Sufi or a rebel mind? His rindana voice dismantled ritual to reveal unity, destiny, and divine love beyond convention
By Madiha Arsalan Haneef
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"Lest we forget: It is easy to be human, very hard to be humane."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/mirza-...
✒ Urdu poet #MirzaGhalib was #BOTD 27 December 1797. #Poetry #Literature
The temple and the Kaaba, both mirrors that reflect the same desire;
a tired zeal carving out shelters for itself.
- #MirzaGhalib
Modern illustration of 'The Hymn of the Pearl'
There are dangers in waves, in all those crocodiles with their jaws open.
The drop of water goes through many difficulties before it becomes a pearl.
- #MirzaGhalib
@mfi_usa “Being loyal to somebody is the real faith” - #MirzaGhalib
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THE WORLD IS NO MORE THAN THE BELOVED'S SINGLE FACE
By #MirzaGhalib, tr. #JaneHirshfield
The world is no more than the beloveds single face;
in the desire of the One to know its own beauty,
we exist.
The Barzakhness of the Graveverse
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For How Long Did #Ghalib and #Manto Talk in #Dozakhnama?
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What's Wrong About Reading Books on Prostitutes in South Asia
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Mantography
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Who The Real Poet Is?
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Ghalib & Manto
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#Dozakhnama - What An Idea!!!
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#Dozakhnama is More Than a Conversation
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#Dozakhnma - A Must Read!!!
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This watercolor on paper painting by esteemed Pakistani artist Abdur Rahman Chughtai shows a scene from a poem by celebrated 19th century Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib about a woman who continues to wait for her lover even after the light from the candle has extinguished. Golden moths are falling over the woman who is reclined in front of a doorway on a thin flat beneath mattress beneath a dark tall gold candle stand. The motif of burnt moths which went too close to fire often appears in Persian literature and paintings to symbolize the fragility of passionate love. Abdur Rehman Chughtai is a Pakistani painter who worked in Lahore around the time the city was still in the territory of British India. He established his original style by fusing different ways of expression including the tradition of Bengali School led by Abanindranath Tagore, Indian miniature painting, modern Japanese painting, and Art Nouveau. Using fluid colors and elegant lines which are the characteristics of the "wash technique" of Bengali School, he made a range of delicate poetic paintings of Hindu and Buddhist myths, historical figures in Islam, and Urdu and Persian poetry. He is considered to be "the first significant modern Muslim artist from Pakistan," and the "national artist of Pakistan." On Pakistan's independence day in 1951, he produced a set of 9 stamps, better known as 'Chughtai Art set'. At that time, this set was considered as the most beautiful stamps of the world. Poet Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan, commonly known as Mirza Ghalib, is widely regarded as one of the greatest poets in the Urdu language. He also produced a significant body of work in Persian. Ghalib's poetry often addresses existential struggle, sorrows, and socio-political disturbances, particularly the decline of the Mughal Empire. Even thought he spent most of his life in poverty, his work remains popular not only in the Indian subcontinent but also among the Hindustani diaspora around the world.
The Extinguished Flame by Abdur Rahman Chughtai (Pakistani) - Watercolor on paper / 1920s - Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Japan) #womeninart #art #watercolorart #artwork #PakistaniArtist #PakistaniArt #FukuokaAsianArtMuseum #福岡アジア美術館 #womensart #AbdurRahmanChughtai #Chughtai #Ghalib #MirzaGhalib #poetry
"Lest we forget: It is easy to be human, very hard to be humane."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/mirza-...
✒ Poet #MirzaGhalib passed away #OTD 15 February 1869. #Poetry #Literature
इश्क़ से तबीयत ने जीस्त का मज़ा पाया
दर्द की दवा पायी दर्द-ए-ला-दवा पाया
Love gave me the lust for living To ease my pain it gave me something for sure; It gave me such pain that nothing can cure.
#MirzaGhalib
"Lest we forget: It is easy to be human, very hard to be humane."
Poems: allpoetry.com/Ghalib-Mirza...
✒ Urdu poet #MirzaGhalib was #BOTD 27 December 1797. #Poetry #Literature
The temple and the #Kaaba,
both mirrors that reflect the same desire;
a tired zeal carving out shelters for itself.
- #MirzaGhalib
"Aaina kyun na dekhun roz
tera Husn bhi to mera hi jalwa hai."
~ Mirza Ghalib
"आइना क्यों न देखूं रोज़
तेरा हुस्न भी तो मेरा ही जलवा है।"
~ मिर्ज़ा ग़ालिब
#LoveInTheClouds #LoveIsBlind #LoveNextDoor #LoveIsBlindHabibi #LoveInTheAir #LoveinAction #LoveSick2024 #MirzaGhalib #Love