Bulbul-e-Hazaar-Daastaan: Asrar ul Haq Majaz .....bujh gaye charagh kaise kaise.....

bujh gaye charagh kaise kaise

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Asrar ul Haq Majaz was a distinguished and one of the most progressive Urdu shayar and journalist famous for romantic and revolutionary poetry. He was the maternal uncle of film lyricist Javed Akhtar. His father's name was Sirajul Haq. Majaz did his graduation from Aligarh Muslim University, where he started his career as a poet. Majaz began his career as the first editor of the Urdu journal of All India Radio, Aawaz – Delhi. However, he soon left the job to become an active member of the Progressive Writers Movement. In collaboration, with Sardar Jaffri and Sibtey Hasan, he started the most influential progressive literary monthly magazine of that period, from Lucknow. This magazine was known as Naya Adab. His collections of poems are under two titles, 'Ahang' and 'Shab Tab'. His most famous poem is 'Aawara'. It is a personification of the yearning of a modern young man of a big city, where money is the only commodity that can buy happiness. His other poems like Nora and Nazr-e-Aligarh were also very famous during that era. At one point of time he was undergoing treatment for addiction to alcohol at Ranchi Mental Hospital. He died in Lucknow in 1955.

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dāman-e-dil pe nahīñ bārish-e-ilhām abhī

ishq nā-puḳhta abhī jazb-e-darūñ ḳhaam abhī

ḳhud hī jhuktā huuñ ki da.avā-e-junūñ kyā kījiye

kuchh gavārā bhī hai ye qaid-e-dar-o-bām abhī

ye javānī to abhī mā.il-e-paikār nahīñ

ye javānī to hai rusvā-e-mai-o-jām abhī

vaa.iz o shaiḳh ne sar joḌ ke badnām kiyā

varna badnām na hotī mai-e-gulfām abhī

maiñ ba-sad-faḳhriya zuhhād se kahtā huuñ 'majāz'

mujh ko hāsil, sharf-e-bai.at-e-ḳhayyām abhī

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aish se be-niyāz haiñ ham log

be-ḳhud-e-soz-o-sāz haiñ ham log

jis tarah chāhe chheḌ de ham ko

tere hāthoñ meñ saaz haiñ ham log

be-sabab iltifāt kyā maanī

kuchh to ai chashm-e-nāz haiñ ham log

mahfil-e-soz o saaz hai duniyā

hāsil-e-soz o saaz haiñ ham log

koī is raaz se nahīñ vāqif

kyuñ sarāpā niyāz haiñ ham log

ham ko rusvā na kar zamāne meñ

bas-ki terā hī raaz haiñ ham log

sab isī ishq ke karishme haiñ

varna kyā ai 'majāz' haiñ ham log

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aql kī sat.h se kuchh aur ubhar jaanā thā

ishq ko manzil-e-pastī se guzar jaanā thā

jalve the halqa-e-sar dām-e-nazar se bāhar

maiñ ne har jalve ko pāband-e-nazar jaanā thā

husn kā ġham bhī hasīñ fikr hasīñ dard hasīñ

un ko har rañg meñ har taur sañvar jaanā thā

husn ne shauq ke hañgāme to dekhe the bahut

ishq ke dāva-e-taqdīs se Dar jaanā thā

ye to kyā kahiye chalā thā maiñ kahāñ se hamdam

mujh ko ye bhī na thā maalūm kidhar jaanā thā

husn aur ishq ko de tāna-e-bedād 'majāz'

tum ko to sirf isī baat par mar jaanā thā

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ḳhāmushī kā to naam hotā hai

varna yuuñ bhī kalām hotā hai

ishq ko pūchhtā nahīñ koī

husn kā ehtirām hotā hai

aañkh se aañkh jab nahīñ miltī

dil se dil ham-kalām hotā hai

husn ko sharmsār karnā hī

ishq kā intiqām hotā hai

Allāh Allāh ye nāz-e-husn 'majāz'

intizār-e-salām hotā hai

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ḳhud dil meñ rah ke aañkh se parda kare koī

haañ lutf jab hai pā ke bhī DhūñDā kare koī

tum ne to hukm-e-tark-e-tamannā sunā diyā

kis dil se aah tark-e-tamannā kare koī

duniyā laraz ga.ī dil-e-hirmāñ-nasīb kī

is tarah sāz-e-aish na chheḌā kare koī

mujh ko ye aarzū vo uThāeñ naqāb ḳhud

un ko ye intizār taqāzā kare koī

rañgīni-e-naqāb meñ gum ho ga.ī nazar

kyā be-hijābiyoñ kā taqāzā kare koī

yā to kisī ko jurrat-e-dīdaār hī na ho

yā phir mirī nigāh se dekhā kare koī

hotī hai is meñ husn kī tauhīn ai 'majāz'

itnā na ahl-e-ishq ko rusvā kare koī

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Awara

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shahr kī raat aur maiñ nāshād o nākārā phirūñ

jagmagātī jāgtī saḌkoñ pe āvārā phirūñ

ġhair kī bastī hai kab tak dar-ba-dar maarā phirūñ