Qurat-ul-Ain Hyder

What does it say?

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Aakhir-e-Shab kay Hamsafar...
Topic started by echoboom on Aug 21, 2007 11:48:23 am
Qurat-al-Ain Hyder:

Cooler-of-Eyes Hyder
Solace-to-the-Eyes-Hyder

One was the Qurat-al-Ain in the nineteenth century of Iran from Quzvain..the most powerful Mullaani..who shunned her far less
learned Mulla husband and joined hands with Mulla Mohammed Ali Baab. This woman, in full veil, thundered from the pulpit & wrote poetry so beautiful & enchanting that
she & Ghalib are the only ones accorded the status almost the highest inn his heirarchy of individuals as the most creative and Independant of mind & thought. Tahira, for that was the name of this Qurat-al-Ain was a champion of human rights and a female's station in a community [& not a "feminist"..UGLY word Western word..abhort it condemn it)

Qurat-ul-Ain-Hyder, the one who graced this world in the 20th century was equally accomplished except that there was no Mulla Mohammed Ali Baab who could be her even a near-equal to be a consort. The intellect, courage, grace and an untainted geneology was not easy to come-by in an India ( Pakistan) where Dollar-dogs roam free with impunity and bricks &
stones embedded & cannot be loosened so that one could defend oneself against these dollar-dogs.

Just look at the name her father gave her..and how prophetic & inspiring. Not only it must have become part of her consiousness to folower Tahira's lead but also how much love is stirred in the name itself.

Solace (coolness) of the Eyes. Comfort to the Eyes. A delight to the eyes...many shades here [english language , a vulgar UNCULTURED LANGUAGE CAN NEVER EVER ATTAIN SUCH TEHZEEB, such class]

Ain: the word for Eyes is also the word for water-fountain or a natural-spring in the Oasis. Just imagine the value of this in a desert. Now because the eyes bubble with water so it is called a spring or well as well. FRom this is the word Ainak ( eyeglasses) and similarly in farsi it is adopted as Chashm ( Eye) and Chashma is used for a spring as well as for ainak.

Let us listen to her recite in her own voice.

I am one her thousands of lovers. Not admirers, but lovers ...aashiques. English language does not have the cultured-nuance of this powerful word.

I spoke to her in April this year and ever word she said would stay etched my mind , I hope, till my last day. She invited me to visit her and I was trying my best to loosen thew collar around my neck..the collar of being enslaved to the pursuit of prosperity, riches and Unhappiness.

" Aakhir-e Shubb kay Hamsafar*, Faiz, najaanay kyaa huay
Jaanay kahaaN gaee Ssaba, subha kidhar nikal Gaee"

*Title of her acclaimed novel

tr:

where did go the fellow-travellers, Faiz, who were with us till the dying dark nights

O where got lost the morning breeze, a herald of the Dawn in its wake.

Here Listen to her reading one of her stories.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov /mbrs/master/salrp/00401.mp3