[Reader-list] Two Iqbals & One Faiz

[Kshmendra Kaul]

Dear Yasir
   
  Long overdue. Didnt want to let it go.
   
  Fleetingly addressing ".....they both received a similar religious education while growing up in Sialkot - however apparently contradictory that sounds." 
   
  For me there is not much of a contradiction. Both were revolutionaries. Both had a "sufi" bent of mind. Both seemed to celeberate "khudi".  
   
  In my opinion the seeming contradiction might arise out of a limited understanding of Iqbal. More philosopher than "Islamist" (also more Philosopher than Poet). A purist (a Salafi???) who primarily stuck to the finest precepts from the "Quran" (somewhat a Parvaizi). A "Shikvah" is not the work of an ordinary soul subscribing to the "expected".
   
  In my opinion, Iqbal's politics (the egging on of Jinnah) was more towards "a Nation for Muslims" rather than an "Islamic (shariah) Nation". The 1940 Lahore resolution and Jinnah's Constituent Assembly speech are just 2 pointers.
   
  I am sure I sound quite disjointed. Khair.
   
  Thanks for Maniza Naqvi's translation of "Hum Daikhaingay". I thought the "anthem", the challenge, the rousing up, the defiance is missing.
   
  Here is an interesting 'variation' by Raamesh Gowri Raghavan. In his words:
   
   
  Here is a transcreation based on Faiz A Faiz's revolutionary Urdu nazm 'Hum dekhenge', and written to the metre of another revolutionary song, the Marseillaise.

"Destiny"

Fear no more my fellow countrymen
The day we dreamed of has now come!
Oh! See the vile ziggurats crumble
Reduced to ignominous dust!
Reduced to ignominous dust!
Can you hear the revolution
Rumble in the angry streets
It thunders fire and lightning
To strike the oppressors' nemesis!

Our destiny is come
The day given to us
Arise! Arise!
For the cast-iron pledge
Must now be redeemed! 

Fear no more my fellow countrymen
The day we dreamed of has now come!
Look! From the temple of our faith
The evil is now exorcised!
The evil is now exorcised!
The good are now restored to their
High exaltations again!
See the generals' stars stripped away
And their thrones, their baubles destroyed!

Our destiny is come
The day given to us
Arise! Arise!
For the cast-iron pledge
Must now be redeemed!

Fear no more my fellow countrymen
The day we dreamed of has now come!
Only His name shall prevail:
Who's Nobody, yet Everybody!
Who's Nobody, yet Everybody!
He Oversees, is the Overseen
His reign shall persist forever!
For He is I and He is You
He is I and He is You!

Our destiny is come
The day given to us
Arise! Arise!
For the cast-iron pledge
Must now be redeemed!


  The original by Faiz"-

"Hum dekhenge 
Lazim hai ke hum bhi dekhenge 
Wo din ke jis ka wada hai 
Jo looh-e-azl pe likha hai 
Hum dekhenge 

Jab zulm-o-sitam ke koh-e-garan
Rooi ki tarah ud jayenge 
Hum mehkoomon ke paaon tale 
Ye dharti dhad dhad dhadakegi 
Aur ahl-e-hukum ke sar oopar 
Jab bijli kad kad kadakegi 
Hum dekhenge 

Jab arz-e-Khuda ke kaabe se 
Sab butth uthwae jayenge 
Hum ahl-e-safa mardood-e-haram 
Masnad pe bithaye jayenge 
Sab taaj uchhaale jayenge 
Sab takht giraaye jayenge 
Hum dekhenge 

Bas naam rahega Allah ka 
Jo ghayab bhi hai hazir bhi 
Jo naazir bhi hai manzar bhi 
Uthega an-al-Haq ka nara 
Jo mai bhi hoon aur tum bhi ho 
Aur raaj karegi Khalq-e-Khuda 
Jo mai bhi hoon aur tum bhi ho

   
  Hum dekhenge 
Lazim hai ki hum bhi dekhenge 
Hum dekhenge"
   
   
  Kshmendra Kaul
  

yasir ~ <yasir.media at gmail.com> wrote:
  I cannot but fail to note and be heartened that both sides (or as
many) find inspiration in Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Muhammad Iqbal -
Kshemendra quoting Niya Shivaalaa, Cashmeeri quoting Meray Dil Meray
Musafir and Rashneek going back to Baang e Dara.

Besides the Kashmeer connection it is not an unimportant note that
they both received a similar religious education while growing up in
Sialkot - however apparently contradictory that sounds.

I will let Iqbal Bano sound it - Faiz's Hum Dekhenge. it becoming an
anthem during the zia years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6kiQjZePbc
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