chaman kaa bulbul hun”, this one line is a magical string that connects
Millions of Aligs all around word. Their head and foot move in same pitch,
tempo and rhythm, all around word with this Nazam “Tarana-E-Aligarh (Nazr-e-Aligarh).
Tarana is sung in chorus,
with full josh, by a group of boys and girls in a uniform:Boys in black sherwani and girls in white salwar suit. When this Tarana is
sung with orchestra in chorus with orchestra with all the vigour, it appears that Aligs are
able to move mountains and create waves in the most calmest lakes.
further it changes in roaring waterfall and ends with powerful sound of
thunderstorms….and then a pin drop silence.
penned by Asrar-ul-Haq Majaz.He was AMU Aligarh, student in between 1930 and
1936. In one of visit
(1936) of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru to AMU Aligarh, he asked students to sing
university song.
The
very next morning, Asrarul Haq Majaz, student of AMU at that time, was ready
with a masterpiece nazam.Later this nazam (Nazr-e-Aligarh) was truncated and adopted
as official lyrics of AMU tarana.
the Union Hall, in the presence of the Pro-Vice Chancellor (PVC) A.B. Ahmed
Haleem Saheb.When Majaz reached the lines Haleem saheb asked to stop the
recital and walked out:—
shabkhoon maray hain;
utarey hain”
continue but Majaz did not. After some time, he relaxed and completed it in the
Union Hall’s lawns (between Morrison court and Union building).
Although Majaz left the university campus, his
poetry continued to influence students. Ishtiaque Ahmad Khan, a B. Ed student
(1954-55) was also one such person.
An address by the VC, Dr Zakir Husain, to the
final year students inspired Khan to do something long-lasting for the
university. He thought of putting Majaz’s Nazr-e-Aligarh to tune and was
confident of it becoming the university song.
Ishtiaque Ahmad Khan created the tune in the last week
of September, 1954, and requested the President of the Union, Ahmad Saeed, to
present Tarana to university. He refused angrily on hearing the poet’s name–Majaz
being a progressive writer.But; Dr.Zakir Husain vice chancellor at that time agreed
and even acknowledged that it was one of Majaz’s best works.
It was October 17th
(Sir Syed Day),1954, when Ishtiaque Ahmad Khan was at dais in the Stretchy Hall
along with his troupe (Saleh Naiyyar, Ghulam Haider Ejaz and Fasih).
Izzat Yaar
Khan, Secretary of SS Hall Music Club, started the tune on the harmonium and
soon the hall was reverberating with the sound of “Ye mera chaman…” Dr.Zakir
Husain VC of that time was impressed. Even Saeed appreciated the poem and
apologised to Ishtiaque about his stand earlier.
Lyric of AMU Tarana
chaman ka bulbul hun
paa-basta-e-gesu-e-sumbul hun
hai mera chaman
yahan bhi jalti hai
ubalti hai
parwanon ki
khuld-e-bareen armanon ki
parwaz yahan
ka saaz yahan
mein saghar tode hain
dil tak jode hain
shaam hai shaam-e-Misr yahan, har shab hai shab-e-Shiraz yahan
saare jahan ka soz yahan aur saare jahan ka saaz yahan
aakaash yahan
shikast-e-faash yahan
barsega
par barsega
dasht-o-daman par barsega
chaman par barsega
qasr-e-tarab par kadkega
barsega
barsega
barsega
A
brief Biography of Asrarul Haq Majaz
In a small life of 44 years only, Asrar-ul-Haq
‘Majaz’, called ‘keats’ of Urdu literature, gave the world of Urdu poetry a
great deal of compositions.
entire generation of that time was a victim of love; it was a victim of
somebody’s love. And so the Aligarh tarana came into being. Majaz died a year
after it was first played.
Ismat Chugtai had once remarked to Majaz,
“Girls love Majaz to such an extent that it cannot be explained.” Majaz known
for his witty sense of humour replied: “But they marry rich people in their
life.”
poetry of Majaz in the serial Kehkashan, he is of the opinion that “Aligarh
Muslim University ko apne jin farzando par naaz hai unme eik Asrar-ul Haq Majaz
hai. Majaz ki zindagi ek adhuri ghazal thi.
adhoorepan me hai. San 1930 ke aas-paas, shairi ke ufaq par eik khubsurat
sitara jagmagaya, logo ne hairat aur masarrat se uski taraf dekha, lekin dekhte
hi dekhte woh aasmaan par chandi ki eik lakeer banata hua guzar gaya”.
After graduation Majaz was offered a position
as assistant editor of Awaaz, the newly established journal of the All India
Radio.The move from Aligarh to Delhi was not as favorable as it should have
been.
large fan following of young female students at Aligarh, lost his heart to a
married woman in Delhi who was his admirer.
The
lady in question belonged to a wealthy reputed family and had no intentions of
abandoning her well-connected husband for a penniless poet. But majaz was
hopelessly in love and he wrote some of his most beautiful, romantic poems in
this phase of his life:
Teri ankhon se sharab aur ziyadah
Jashn-e Salgirah”
It is very regrettable that the winner got
very little life. At the age of 44, he said goodbye to this dying world. The
way of their goodbye from this world was too painful and horrific. Doctors had
forbidden him to drink alcohol, but where did the doctors’ advice come in front
of their friends? He was drinking toddy, but all of them were like poison.
It is said that on December 4, 1952, in the
evening of humiliating evening, Majaz spent the night with friends on the roof
of any log stand of Lucknow. The friends went crazy and drunk in there. The
world was awakened on the morning of December 5, but where did the wizards
live? He had interrupted this world.
मजाज़ : उर्दू शायरी का कीट्स
