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Majeed Amjad (1914-1974) is arguably among the top 5 modern Urdu poets. He has written poems, long poems, ghazals as well as geet (songs).

His poetry shows an amazing breadth of content ranging from personal love to the social problems facing an emerging Pakistan.

His diction includes words from Hindi, Arabic, Persian and Urdu, all assimilated into flawless, rhythmic phrases which bring forth a very nuanced imagery.

Sensitive to the human condition and always seeing the infinite in the infinitesimal, minute details of life around him, his poems are colorful canvases portraying his age and his unique view of the people and places he lived in.

I started reading Majeed Amjad's poems in 1977 when I was a college student at Forman Christian College, Lahore, Pakistan. The collection published after Majeed Amjad's death (Shab-e-Rafta Kay Baad) was one of the two poetry books (the other one being Muneer Niazi's "Maah-e-Muneer") which started me off on my journey of self-discovery.

Dareechah-e-Nigaarish - Majeed Amjad's Romantic Poems


Shab-e-Rafta was the only collection of his poetry published in his lifetime. He wrote a beautiful poem (Harf-e-Awwal) as an introduction to that collection:

DardoN ke is koh-e-garaaN se
MeiN ne tarashi, nazm kay eewaN
ki ik ik sil,
Ik ik soch ki hairaaN moorat …Garche qalam ki nok se tapke
Kitne tarane, kitne fasane
Lakh masaail
Dil meiN rahi sub dil ki hikayat!

Bees baras ki kaawish-e-paiham
Sochte din aur jaagti raateiN
Un ka haasil:
Aik yahi izhaar ki hasrat!

The persistent undercurrent of Majeed Amjad’s poetry is a view of life that is essentially tragic (perhaps another reason why it is difficult for the young to embrace him compared to say Faiz’s optimistic theme of ‘we shall overcome’) . Majeed Amjad feels the inexorable cruelty of time in his bones. Life’s circle continues with unremitting regularity indifferent to what it leaves behind.

In the poem “KunwaN”, the water wheel symbolizes the perpetual circle of time and the water carrier, symbolizing the divine, watches this passing of time and its ravages with complete detachment:

KunwaN chal raha hai! magar khet sookhe pare haiN, na fasleiN, na khirman, na dana
Na shakhon ki bahein, na phooloN ke mukhre, na kalioN ke mathe, na rut ki jawani …KunwaiN wala, gaadi pe leta hai, mast apni bansi ki meethi sureeli sada meiN
KahiN khet sookha para reh gaya aur na us tak kabhi aai pani ki bari
KahiN beh gayi aik hi tund rele ki fayyaz lehroN meiN kayari ki kayari …

Aur ik naghma sarmadi kaan meiN aa raha hai, musalsal kunwaN chal raha hai
Payape magar narm rau us ki raftaar, paiham magar betakan us ki gardish
Adam se azal tak, azal se abad tak badalti nahiN aik aan us ki gardish
Na jane liye apne dolaab ki aastinoN maiN kitne jahaaN us ki gardish

RawaN hai rawaN hai
TipaN hai tipaN hai
Yeh chakkar yuhiN jaawidaN chal raha hai
KunwaN chal raha hai


Majeed Amjad: The Poet Less Remembered : ALL THINGS PAKISTAN

Majeed Amjad reciting his poem;

http://www.youtube.com/v/ZBWvXlUeOcg
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