Re: GREATS OF URDU POETRY:
sorry but i would like to submit some correction..
Na To Main Kisi Ka Habib Hoon, Na To Main Kisi Ka Raqeeb Hoon, Jo Bigar Gaya Vo Naseeb Hoon, Jo Ujar Gaya Vo Dayaar Hoon
Pa'ay Fatiha Koi Aaye Kyun, Koi Chaar Phool Charhaye Kyun? Koi Aakay Shamaa Jalaye Kyun, Main Vo Bekasi Kaa Mazaar Hoon
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Here is what Dr. Jamiluddin Aali, Dr. Farman Fatehpuri, Dr. Jamil Jalibi and Shr Ansari.....the pundits of URDU have to say when I posed your matter on them;
FIRSTLY...there is a controversy that the very verses I quoted above....belong to Bahadurshah Zafar !! (that's news to me as well!). Next, the verses YOU quote are also correct but the ones I quoted are also not wrong. The history, they say, is not very clear on Bahadurshah Zafar's poetry AFTER his fall and the ones---he reportedly, wrote from exile in Rangoon. It is also said that some of the popular ones are not of Zafar but have been attributed to be by him on the fact that.....he became a disdain deposed King and earned the plight of many diehards of those days....who's generation carried the popularity of Zafar by attributing many verses of unknown....to be of ZAFAR as he was in large focus due to his disposition.
Khush Rahein.......