Who wrote ' Na kisi ki aankh ka noor hoon'?

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Re: Who wrote ’ Na kisi ki aankh ka noor hoon’?

@Naabigh

Bhadur shah zafar - the last mughal king

thats what I used to believe, but the famous ghazal is not written by Bahadur Shah Zafar. Its written by Muztir Khairabadi (grandfather of famous Indian poet Javed Akhat).

I heard that in today’s Hasb e Haal and googled that to find out this:

i spoke to dr aslam farrukhi the other day to find out more about the above shair. he pointed out that seemab’s shair has “lai thi” (which gives a little different meaning) instead of “laey thay”. in his opinion kalam that is generally attributed to zafar – and is not found in his four diwans – should not be attributed to him just because the maqta’ has zafar’s takhkhalus, or the shair is in zafar’s style. dr farrukhi also told me that “na kisi ki ankh ka noor hoon na kisi kay dil ka qarar hoon” is by muztar khairabadi (janisar akhtar’s father).

Bahadur Shah Zafar