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Jalib was so darpok and his history was weak. When did Changez and Hallakoo came to this land… Why he was afraid to name Ghaznavi and Bin Qasim?
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^ He was darpok? Aadhi zindagi tou bechare jail main raha. 
It would be interesting as to find out what was the main reason of this “shair”. I know that he was very much against army’s intervention in politics and the way they operate. Maybe it was in the context of the previous Afghan “jehad”?
I love his poem “Jaag meray Punjab” too.
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I think he also wrote poems on Kashmir. The famous one used in movie ‘ye Amn’, Zulm rahe aur amn bhi ho was penned by him. He was the poet, who wrote against Nawab of Kala Bagh for torturing Neelo (Shaan’s mother) when she refused to dance before Shahnshah e Iran as ‘Tu ke na waqif e aadab e ghulami hai abhi, raqs zanjeer pehn kar bhi kia jaata hai’.
He also wrote against PPP (after seeing mismanagement of BB), though he was considered a PPP supporter:
Haal ab bhi wohi Faqeeron k,Din Phiry Hain Faqat Wazeeron k,
Har Bilawal hy Des Ka Maqrooz,Paon Nange Hain BeNazeeron K
But this particular shair is not specific and historically in-correct.
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I love his poem "Jaag meray Punjab" too.
share that poem :)
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This is in context of Bangladesh fall (71), its pretty much applicable even today.
Jaag meray Punjab ke Pakistan chala..
Toot chalay sab khuwab ke pakistan chala..
Sindh, Balochistan tu kab se rotay hain..
Aur ahal-e-Punjab abhi tak sotay hian..
Aankhain hain pur-aab ke pakistan chala..
Jaag meray Punjab ke Pakistan chala..
Jin ko Zaat ka gham hai wo kab manay hain..
Be-bas loogon par bandooqain taanay hain..
Qatil hain asbaab ke Pakistan chala..
Jaag meray Punjab ke Pakistan chala..
Aag ki barish hai, gulshan dhuwan dhuwan..
Rawish rawish aab kaliyon ki mahkaar kahan..
Sapnay huy Ghulaab ke Pakistan chala..
Jaag meray punjab ke Pakistan chala..
Zu'am hai ye balwanoon ko ke hum jeetain gain..
Aur kahoon main ye ke dukh ke din beetain gay..
Jam hue zahar aab ke Pakistan chala..
Jaag meray Punjab ke Pakistan chala..
Afsurda ghazlain, farsuda afsanay hain..
Had nazar tak phailay hue wiranay hain..
Darya hue sairab ke Pakistan chala..
Jaag meray punjab ke Pakistan chala..
Inhi chalan se hum se juda Bengal hua..
Pooch na is dukh se jo dil ka haal hua..
Roko ye sailab ke Pakistan chala..
Jaag meray Punjab ke Pakistan chala..
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heart touching :k:
My boss sometimes refers to these lines (probably penned by Jalib):
Haseen AankhoN, madhur geetoN ke sundar des ko kho ker;
MeiN heraaN hooN woh zikr-e-vaadi-e-Kashmir kertay heiN
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I think he also wrote poems on Kashmir. The famous one used in movie 'ye Amn', Zulm rahe aur amn bhi ho was penned by him. He was the poet, who wrote against Nawab of Kala Bagh for torturing Neelo (Shaan's mother) when she refused to dance before Shahnshah e Iran as 'Tu ke na waqif e aadab e ghulami hai abhi, raqs zanjeer pehn kar bhi kia jaata hai'.
He also wrote against PPP (after seeing mismanagement of BB), though he was considered a PPP supporter:
Haal ab bhi wohi Faqeeron k,Din Phiry Hain Faqat Wazeeron k, Har Bilawal hy Des Ka Maqrooz,Paon Nange Hain BeNazeeron K
But this particular shair is not specific and historically in-correct.
This shair would have some history behind it, as he was a socialist. I believe it could be in context of the previous Afghan jehad.
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This shair would have some history behind it, as he was a socialist. I believe it could be in context of the previous Afghan jehad.
probably referring to Zia ul haq Shaheed
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^ could be, he loved him a lot 
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yes madly in love
Zulmat ko zia, sar sar ko saba, banday ko khuda kya likhna
Deewar ko dar, pathar ko gauhar, jugnu ko diya kya likhna
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Eik nazar apni zindagi pur daal, ik nazar apnee ardali pur daal
fasla khud hee kar zara mehsoos, youn na Islam ka nikal juloos
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some info about Habib Jalib. He was a hated man (especially by the right), but if we see objectively he was right in many accounts.
Memoir: Jalib in Jail by Mujahid Barelvi
The Hyderabad Conspiracy Case was the second big trial in Pakistan’s political history. It was hosted by Hyderabad Jail. Before this, in 1951, famous Communist leader Sajjad Zaheer, prominent poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz, and seventeen servicemen including General Akbar Khan were also tried in Hyderabad and sentenced to five years in prison with labour for plotting to overthrow Liaqat Ali Khan’s government (that case came to be known as the Pindi Conspiracy Case after the city where most of the allegedly conspiratorial meetings were held). Faiz Sahib had written a beautiful poem about this case with the famous couplet:
*Woh baat saaray fasaanay mein jis ka zikar na tha
W*oh baat un ko bohat na-gawaar guzri hai
**We were talking about the Hyderabad Conspiracy Case. The first government of People’s Party dissolved the National Awami Party’s government in Balochistan, and later accused NAP’s leadership of plotting a rebellion against the state with the help of foreign weapons and money. Most of the accused were from the Frontier [now KPK] or Balochistan. Those who felt the wrath included eminent nationalist leaders like Khan Abdulwali Khan, Meer Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo, Ajmal Khattak, Khairbakhsh Marri, Sardaar Ata’ullah Mengal and Gul Khan Naseer; from Sindh and Punjab, NAP leaders Meraj Muhammad Khan, Alibakhsh Talpur, Kaswar Gardezi and Habib Jalib made the list. The total number of the accused in Hyderabad Jail was fifty-six, many of whom were brought from various places and prisons in Pakistan. Members of a leftist ‘London Group’ had also been arrested on the charge of treason; this group included eminent contemporary journalists Ahmad Rasheed, Najam Sethi, Rashid Rahman and Asad Rahman.
The trial went on for about three years. In July '77, after Bhutto’s government had been overthrown, General Ziaul Haq’s regime withdrew the case and released the NAP leaders. Jalib Sahib however had been released on bail after fourteen months due to bad health.
The day Jalib Sahib was arrested for this case, it was the soyem - the third day of mourning - of his eldest son Tahir Abbas. Most of the poetry he wrote soon after he was detained was ‘in memory of my son Tahir Abbas’.
*If he were alive today, he would have written to me,
A* fter reading Noor Afshan’s letter, I am missing him even more.
*Nothing but tears have I found in this life,
*But losing him, I would never forget.
*Looking at flowers brings tears to my eyes,
*The world looks like a centuries-old ruin.
*How much could he have lived in this stone-hearted setting anyway?
*Now do I understand why he was picked up from this world.
********I often went to witness the proceedings. “The trial of the conspiracy case” was held inside the four gates; even in the courtroom there was an iron wall separating the accused and their friends and relatives. We could hear their voices but couldn’t see their faces. Yahya Bakhtiar was among those representing the government, while the accused were represented by, among others, Mian Mehmood Ali Kasuri and Abid Hassan Minto.
Political workers who have been to jail know that personal wishes and weaknesses can really make you worry, and for this reason, sometimes even the most seasoned political leaders are compelled to make all sorts of requests to the jail administration and the government. In any event, while Jalib Sahib did not have a weakness for alcohol, he definitely needed it in the evening. But during his fourteen months in prison, he never allowed this need to become a compulsion. Jalib’s friend and NAP leader from Punjab, Kaswar Gardezi, was kept in a cell adjacent to Jalib’s. His other neighbour was a famous Baloch rebel leader. According to Jalib Sahib: “Kaswar Gardezi used now and then to tease me with ‘O you silly man! O you silly man!’ One day I had had enough and told Gardezi Sahib, ‘Indeed I am a silly man; that’s why I am locked up here next to you. But why do you always have to make a point of it?’ Gardezi Sahib - he had great affection for me - told me secretively, ‘Man, you are so innocent. That Baloch guerrilla, your neighbour, throws a party every evening. Why don’t you go there?’ I told him, ‘I have spent many years in jail, but have never asked anyone for alcohol.’”
The poetry Jalib Sahib wrote in Hyderabad jail is of historic significance. There was a lot of commotion in the courtroom the day I went to see the proceedings. The accused were being asked in turn if they pleaded guilty or not. In reply we would usually hear the furious shrieking voice of the accused. When Jalib Sahib was asked to plead, he remained silent, prompting Justice Riaz, who had a taste for letters, to say, “Then at least let us hear a ghazal for you.” On this, Jalib Sahib read out the following famous ghazal:
What justice can you expect from judges who are prisoners themselves,
The verdict they have reserved for us is written no their faces.
*Not for long can these custodians of night resist our advance,
F or the moon shall rise no matter how high you build the walls.
**We are fond of walking with the passionate,
**And we don’t care what punishment we get from the intellectuals.
**In our minds is the map of a free future,
**We’ll kindle the fate of every grain of earth.
**Those who are silent on our murder today, tomorrow Jalib,
They’ll shed a lot of tears, they’ll offer a lot of praise.
Translated from the Urdu by Babar S. Mirza, a regular contributor to TFT
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its superb :k:…
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*
Shehar me hoo ka aalam tha
Jinn tha ya referendum tha?
Qaid the deewaron main log
baahir shor bahut kam tha
Kuch baarish se chehre the
Aur iman kaa maatham tha
**Marhoomeen shareek hue
**Sachchayi ka chehallum tha
Din unnees December ka
bemani behangam tha
ya waada tha haakim ka
ya akhbaari kaalam tha*
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leela ko bata bata dungi
apka ser phar degi vo
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yeh leela koun hay 
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unki beti
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This is the summary of the youtube video I have posted above (for those who dont have access).
The context is that Jalib met Hafeez Jallandhari in the market who told him that he had been selected as the adviser to Ayub Khan. He has written this poem as a darbari kind of person praising the rulers.
Meine us se ye kaha
Ye jo das crore hain,
Jehl ka nichor hain,
Inki fikr so gayi,
Har umeed ki kiran
Zulmaton me kho gai
Ye khabar darust hai
Inki maut ho gai
Be shaoor log hain
Zindagi ka rog hain
Aur tere paas hai
Inke dard ki dawa
Meine us se ye kaha
Meine us se ye kaha
Tu khuda ka noor hai
Akl hai shaoor hai
Qaum tere saath hai
Tere hi wajood se
Mulk ki najaat hai
Tu hai mehr-e-subh-e-nau
Tere baad raat hai!
Bolte jo chand hain
Sab ye shar pasand hain!
Inki kheench le zabaan
Inka ghoont de gala
Meine us se ye kaha
Meine us se ye kaha
Jin ko tha zaban pe naaz
Chup hain wo zaban daraaz
Chain hai samaaj me
Bemisaal fark hai
Kal me aur aaj me
Apne kharch par hain qaid
Log tere raaj me
Meine us se ye kaha
Meine us se ye kaha
Cheen
Cheen apna yar hai
Us pe jan nisar hai
Par wahan jo hai nizaam
Us taraf na jaayiyo
Us ko door se salaam
Das crore ye gadhe
jin ka naam hai awaam
Kya banain ge hukmaran
Tu!, tu!, tu! yaqeen hai ye gumaan
Apni to dua hai ye
Sadr tu rahe sada
Meine us se ye kaha
Meine us se ye kaha