woh su'ey laalah zaar phirtey haiN

Rather be fakhr of Someone knowledgeable rather than a jaahil ;-)

 

Then I guess "sag-e-raza" is the fakhr of zahid hussain from preston

 

he means this Mawlana Zahid Hussain who hails from Preston.

 

Who is Mufti Zahid Hussain? Do you mean Zahid Shah?

Zahid Shah considers Bareilawis Nasbis. He also criticises Mufti Mustapha Rida Khan rahimahuAllah.

 

Take it easy man. Give the brother's opinion a break. Whose fakhr are you? go take a hike

 

ala hazrats poetry is not haphazard but

some paradox there.

mufti Zahid husain, who is much much MUCH MUCH more knowledgeable than abu hasan (maybe like a droplet of water or mist compared to an ocean) says that 4 people lower the coffin into the grave and the 5th person (the deceased) is left there, so 5 people go and 4 return which is what ala hazrat meant.

but fakhre internet can interpret it however he wants for surely, he knows ala hazrat more than mufti zahid, or any other scholar in the world

i salute you fakhre internet

 

yes, they can but Allamah abu hasan, fakhre internet said the graveyard interpretation is wrong, ask fakhre internet why he thinks this is?

 

why can't they all be correct? Actually, I love Noori's explanation and also the learned Scholar's too.

 

hahahahah, is that why mufti zahid and muhadith e kabeer and shaykh noor ul-Mustafa and mufti faiz ahmed owaisi all say that its referring to the grave yard. but sorry, you're more cleverer than all the muftis of the world, only you understand what ala hazrat meant.

you funny guy

 

hahahahah, is that why mufti zahid and muhadith e kabeer and shaykh noor ul-Mustafa and mufti faiz ahmed owaisi all say that its referring to the grave yard. but sorry, you're more cleverer than all the muftis of the world, only you understand what ala hazrat meant.

you funny guy

 

additional two lines by mufti azam pakistan

assalamu alikum.
i was sitting with mufti ashfaq ahmad razvi of slough
who is a student and mureed of mufti e azam pakistan mufti sardar ahmad.

i read this very naat and he told me that when mufti sahib first heard the lines

jo teray dar say yaar phirtay hain
dar bader yoon he khwaar phirtay hain

he added

jo teray dar KO yaar phirtay hain
HAR JAGAH BAA WAQAAR phirtay hain

 

:s1:

sidi, with regards to your last post about the use of the word 'dog' and the misfortunate who cannot understand metaphor and thus cry 'wolf' (pun intended!), if a blind man cannot see the sun it is not a proof of the sun's non-existence.

dogs are, after all, faithful to their master--no wonder certain people don't like the word 'dog'!

woof!

 

the last line,

koyi kyuN puche teri baat raza
tujh se shayda hazaar phirtey haiN

why would anybody bother about you raza,
a thousand mongrels like you roam about.

[the original says, tujh se kuttey hazaar phirtey haiN; and i am doing a faithful translation to debunk a few objections raised by people shorn of any knowledge or zawq/feelings.]

---
alaHazrat, out of sheer humility says that you are not any special that you should be accorded such great favor [he wished to see RasulAllah sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam with waking eyes] - you are just like any other mongrel roaming about. it is humility, it sprouts from an abject feeling one has when one feels rejected or dejected in love.

fools, who cannot read properly and whose language skills do not progress beyond that of a 3rd grader, jump like monkeys on this couplet accusing alaHazrat of describing himself as a 'dog.' it would save them severe humiliation and they can avoid looking like morons they really are, if they look up a term known as 'figure of speech.'

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let us examine the word 'dog' itself. it is used to denote many things. in most cultures, a dog exemplifies faithfulness and service. also, a dog is used in english/arabic for something base or merits very little respect. stray dogs are meant when people say 'shoot down like dogs' - they are of no value and no one grieves for them. a dog in english idiom is described as 'man's best friend.' it is used as a guard as in watchdog.

in the qur'an the word 'dog' is mentioned in two places [infact multiple mentions in surah al-kahf] describing bal`am ba`ura 'panting like a dog' and the real dog of the companions of the cave. in mufradat imam raghib, he says [among arabs] it denotes greed [fulanun aHraS mina'l kalb]

the indo-persian culture it a metaphor that also denotes 'a faithful servant.' in numerous places people refer to themselves 'sag e ...' meaning the 'dog of...' routinely in the courts of kings [in the middle-ages, persian was the language of the court] people referred to themselves as sag-e-darbar [a-dog-in-the-court]

----
alaHazrat is saying, many faithful servants roam about in these [madinah] streets - just like you; what is so special about you?

or, after all you are not worth anything, do not hope for such great states.

or, if one tries the deobandi style of explanation, alaHazrat is saying 'dogs roam about' - even the dogs in madinah are like you; he did not refer to himself as a dog.

all said and done, to consider oneself a dog of RasulAllah sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam is to describe a great honor of being his servant; routinely people refer to themselves as dust under the feet - after all, a dog is a living thing.

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i mean, it is so obvious but some people really want to find fault with everything.

Allah ta'ala knows best.

 

this is poetry so the question has to be asked: is any interpretaton more valid than any other one. At the end of the day only Ala Hazrat :ra: himself knows what he intended when he wrote those lines!

Isn't this part of the pleasure of poetry that we an all have our interpretations--poetry is not mathematics!

 

when I read explanation of 'hazrat sayyid faiz ah'mad awaisi (May Allah save him), I too was a little skeptical of the explanation, because it will make the couplet completely out of the flow. Therefore I agree with sidi abu hassan in that regard, however the explanation is from a sage, and we should accept it.

Dismissal of other meanings is hard to swallow, because you cannot limit poetry to one meaing decisively, speically when it is not very obvious.

 

alright then. perhaps, i am wrong after all.

Allah ta'ala knows best.

 

yes it does not have to stay on the subject. there are other cases of this in Ala Hazrat's poetry. I asked another scholar and he said it refers to the carrying of a deceased to be buried, and completely dismissed the idea of the holy rawdah and said that explaination does not even make sense.

 

:s1:

Thanks for correcting 'gard' to 'gird' in the transliteration; however, i initially read it as 'gird' anyway and my translation reflected that--hence 'circumambulate'.

Sidi Abu Nibras makes a valid point that in a ghazal (as opposed to a nazm)
there is no need for the theme to be continuous from one verse to another.
Indeed, this is one of the defining characteristics of a ghazal that each couplet within it can be completely self-contained and complete in itself.
That said, I still feel your interpretation of place as the Rawdah Sharif is more correct than graveyard. Wallahu aalam.