(Asal Eid to wahi hoti hai jab mehboob se achanak wisal ho jaaye)
Hazrat Khwaja Baba Farid of Mithankot (punjab) is a well known Saraiki sufi poet of late 19th century. This is based on his conversation with a majzoob outside the Eidgah ground. A majzoob was asking every passerby: "When is (my) Eid?", and people keep walking away laughing as it was apparent that Eid is today.
When he asked Baba Farid; "When is (my) Eid?". Baba Farid answered: "Eid is when you meet your Mehboob".
He questioned back: "when I will meet my Mehboob"?. Baba Farid replied: "When (all) distances die - or (when you will stop feeling him as stranger inside you - or when he will call you from inside you) ".
He asked: "And when (all) the distances will die?" . Baba Farid said: "Only when he (mehboob) wish".
As Gulzar sahab said:
Yaaro aase paase wasda hai yaar mera
Dikhda ni ohdi khusbuaan sungdaan
Na visaal hoya kadi - Na judai hoyi
ishq de qaidi ti na rihai hoyi
Hazrat Khwaja Baba Farid of Mithankot (punjab) is a well known Saraiki sufi poet of late 19th century. This is based on his conversation with a majzoob outside the Eidgah ground. A majzoob was asking every passerby: "When is (my) Eid?", and people keep walking away laughing as it was apparent that Eid is today.
When he asked Baba Farid; "When is (my) Eid?". Baba Farid answered: "Eid is when you meet your Mehboob".
He questioned back: "when I will meet my Mehboob"?. Baba Farid replied: "When (all) distances die - or (when you will stop feeling him as stranger inside you - or when he will call you from inside you) ".
He asked: "And when (all) the distances will die?" . Baba Farid said: "Only when he (mehboob) wish".
As Gulzar sahab said:
Dikhda ni ohdi khusbuaan sungdaan
Na visaal hoya kadi - Na judai hoyi
ishq de qaidi ti na rihai hoyi
This is a very touching post, doctor. However, I wonder what is better...the actual wisaal or the sweet pain of judai?
ReplyDeleteEID GAH-E-MA GHAREEBA’N KOO-E-Tu
ReplyDeleteAZ HILAL-E-MA KHAM-E-ABROO-E-Tu
Hazrat Amir khusro.
*likes*
ReplyDeleteEid mubarak to you all!
>> Baba Farid replied: "When (all) distances die - or (when you will stop feeling him as stranger inside you - or when he will call you from inside you)"
ReplyDeleteI had heard somewhere about this tragedy of cosmic loneliness.
Our individual consciousness is only ours, it is sealed off from everyone else. We know each other only through bodily interactions and that often leads to feeling of loneliness!
Beautiful lines sir
ReplyDeleteBeyond: I am glad you are still around. You don't comment anymore
ReplyDeleteMehnaz: Thank you!!! (very timely)
Anony: We all are in pursuit of breaking that bubble I guess
Dopamine: !!!! (why this nick, and not epinephrine? !! :)
Beautiful couplets of both Mystic and Mehnaz
ReplyDeleteSort of reminds me of
apnay mann men doob ker paja suragh-e-zindagi
Or another one I have forgotten if you can remember, the meanings are
Jamshed kept looking at his jaam but would have found it if he had looked into himself some day
something like that Can any one advise (Allama Iqbal, of course)
Mystic: Its very hard to comment on yr blog as there are so many odd verifications required to prove, 'I am not robot'. Talking of Majzoob, I saw your post below on silence in spirituality. I think, majzoob are those people who can not handle power of spirituality, loose their mind but keep a spark of it.
ReplyDeleteSajid: I hear you. But if I let loose comment, spammers will have very good time! BTW. I agree with you on Majzoob thingy.
ReplyDeleteUncle: I don't remember exact words but it was like, I think - Looking inside oneself is the true jame-jam
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