another one Aye Raza! jaan e Anadil tere Naghmo kay Nisar Bulbul-e-Baagh e Madina, tere kehna kya hai! Raza, at your melodies the songbirds make an offering of their souls O’ nightingale of the garden of Medina, how lovely is your song!
another sheyr which is tahdeeth bin nemah jo kahey sheyr o paas e shara'a, donoN ka Husn kyuNkar aay laa usey peysh e jalwah e zamzamah e razaa key yuN if anyone asks, 'how can beauty of poetry and regard for divine law converge?' bring him here in the radiance of raza's poetry and say: 'like this'.
no basis AT ALL for this story of daagh dehalvi writing the maqta of unki mahek! mufti zahid husain al-qadri says this is a false story as does mufti mujeeb ashraf, a great scholar in India who spent most of his youth with Mufti Azam-e-Hind (Allah is pleased with him). He said that the story about Daag Delwhi has no base and is not true and this was Alaa Hazrat's (Allah is pleased with him) line. If it wasn't Alaa Hazrat's (Allah is pleased with him) line, where is his "Maqta" in that naat? There are other lines written as Tahdeeth-e-Ni'mah which are very similar to the above one, what about them? Mufti Mujeeb Ashraf spent most of his time with Mufti Azam-e-Hind and he mentions meanings of Ala Hazrat's lines told to him by Mufti Azam-e-Hind. Allah says in the Qur'aan "And the gifts that Allah has given to you, show them to others", Alaa Hazrat was indeed a very humble person, at the same time he was very thankful for the gifts that Allah gave to him. Tahdeeth-e-Ni'mah is a way of thanking Allah, in a hadith the Prophet (peace be upon him) says that if Allah has given you wealth then show it because Allah likes it to be shown apparently (Aw kama Qaala). Alhamdu Lillah, yesterday i picked up Hadaa'ik-e-Bakhsish and read the "Ta'aaruf-e-Imaam Ahmed Raza" written in the beginning by Allama Muhammed Haneef Khan Razvi from Barelvi. He has also written that the line "Mulke Sukhan Ki Shahi......." is a line that Ala Hazrat wrote himself. Pick it up and have a look! Now, if you are saying that Alaa Hazrat didn't write that line and never did Tahdeeth-e-Ni'mah, then what do you say about the following lines: Mahsoor Jaha Daani Wa Aali Mai Hai Kya Shubha Raza Ki Bay Mithaali Mai Hai! Kiss Muh Se Kahoo Rashke Anaadil Hoo Mai Sha'ir Hoo Faseeh Bay Mumathil Hoo Mai! Teri Dozakh Se To Kuch Cheena Nahi Khuld Mai Pohcha Raza Phir Tujh Ko Kya! Woh Raza Ke Neza Ki Maar Hai Ke Adu Ke Sine Mai Gaar Hai Kise Chaara Joyi Ka Waar Hai Yeh Waar Waar Se Paar Hai! Kilke Raza Hai Khanjare Khookhaar Barq Baar, Aadaa Sai Kehdo Khair Manaaye Na Shar Kare! Yahi Kehti Hai Bulbule Baage Jinaa Keh Raza Ki Tarah Koi Sahre Bayaa Nahi Hind Mai Waasife Shaahe Huda Mujhe Shokiye Tab'e Raza Ki Qasam!! All the above and manymore Ash'aar written by My Alaa Hazrat are absolutely without example, all written by himself. If anyone wants to see them, pick up Hadaa'ik-e-Bakhshish! They were all written as Tahdeeth-e-Ni'mah! *i copied and pasted a lot of it from yanabi.com
I heard it was Imam Ahmad Rida's couplet but when Maulana Hasan Rida read it to Daagh Dihlawi, Daagh appreciated it highly and said this can't be your writing. Then Maulana Hasan said it was his brother's. I think he recited, "Woh su'e lala zaar phirte haiN".
:s1: What I have heard/read is that it was Mawlana Hassan Rida Khan :ra: who was a student of Hazrat Nawab Daagh Dehlavi and he used to take his poems to Daagh sahib for correction (islaH). One day he took his elder brother (Ala Hadrat) 's naat, 'Unki mehek ne dil kay ghunchay khilaa diye haiN' and showed it to Daagh sahib. Daagh said that this does not appear to be your own work. Mawlana Hassan replied that it is indeed not, rather it is the work of my elder brother Mawlana Ahmad Rida Khan :ra:. Then it was that Dagh wrote the final verse you quoted and asked Mawlana Hassan to ask Ala Hadrat to keep this couplet in the naat. Wallahu 'aalam.
Mulke sukhan ki shaahi tum ko Raza musallam Jis simt aa gaye ho sikke biTha diye haiN I read somewhere that Maulana Hasan Raza was a student in poetry of Daagh Dihlawi. When Daagh Dihlawi saw Imam Ahmad Raza's Unki mahak ne dil ke...he was amazed and added the above couplet. But, I have also read that this is Imam Ahmad Raza's own couplet. Views?
