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Title: Hindustani Lyrics

Author: Various

Translator: Inayat Khan and Jessie Westbrook

Release Date: February 7, 2006 [EBook #17711]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: ZAFAR.]

HINDUSTANI LYRICS

RENDERED FROM THE URDU
BY
INAYAT KHAN
AND
JESSIE DUNCAN WESTBROOK

_Sufism is the Religious Philosophy of Love, Harmony, and Beauty_

LONDON:
THE SUFI PUBLISHING SOCIETY, LTD.,
86, LADBROKE ROAD, LONDON, W. 11.

_All rights reserved._
1919

CONTENTS.

PORTRAIT OF ZAFAR

FOREWORD

URDU LYRICS:--

ABRU

AMIR

ASIF

DAGH

FIGHAN

GHALIB

HALI

HASAN

INSHA

JURAT

MIR

MIR SOZ

MIR TAQI

MOMIN

MUSHAFI

MUZTAR

NASIKH

SAUDA

SHAMSHAD

TABAN

WALI

YAKRANG

ZAFAR

ZAHIR

ZAUQ

FRAGMENTS:--

ARZU

GHALIB

HATIM

MAZHAR

MIR DARD

MIR SOZ

MIR TAQI

SAUDA

TABAN

GLOSSARY

FOREWORD.

Of the many languages of India, Urdu (Hindustani) is the most widely
known, especially in Upper India. Both as a written and a spoken
language it has a reputation throughout Asia for elegance and
expressiveness. Until the time of Muhammad Shah, Indian poetry was
written in Persian. But that monarch, who mounted the throne of Delhi
in 1719, greatly desired to make Urdu the vogue, and under his patronage
and approval, Hatim, one of his ministers, and Wali of the Deccan,
wrote Diwans in Urdu. This patronage of poets was continued by his
successors, and exists indeed to the present day; and the cultivation
of Urdu poetry has always been encouraged at the many Courts of India.
Some of the Indian Rulers are themselves poets, and find their duty
and pleasure in rewarding with gifts and pensions the literary men
whose works they admire. The Court of Hyderabad has for long had a
circle of poets: the late Nizam was himself eminent as a writer of
verse. The Maharaja-Gaekwar of Baroda is a generous patron of literary
men