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==External links== |
==External links== |
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* [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.440328] |
* [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.440328 Ilm Ul Kitab] |
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* [http://www.kavitakosh.org/kk/index.php?title=%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%80 Khwaja Mir Dard at Kavita Kosh] (Hindi) |
* [http://www.kavitakosh.org/kk/index.php?title=%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%82_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%80 Khwaja Mir Dard at Kavita Kosh] (Hindi) |
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* [http://www.msci.memphis.edu/~ramamurt/dard.html Khwaja Mir Dard: Life and Ghazals] |
* [http://www.msci.memphis.edu/~ramamurt/dard.html Khwaja Mir Dard: Life and Ghazals] |
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Revision as of 12:45, 31 October 2017
Khwaja Mir Dard (Urdu: خواجہ میر درد) (born in 1721 and died in 1785) was a poet of the Delhi School. He was a Sufi saint of the Naqshbandi Majdudi silsiala was a mystic poet. His greatness lay in translating his mysticism into verse.
Poetry
Dard's Persian prose works are extensive, consisting of the Ilm ul Kitab, a 600+ page metaphysical work on the philosophy of the Muhammadi path, and the Chahar Risalat, collections of more than a thousand mystical aphorisms and sayings. [1]
Dard's couplet on this illusory life, from Il-ul-Kitab[1]:
دوستوں، دیکها تماشا یہاں کا بس
- تُم رہو خوش ہم تو اپنے گھر چلے ۔
English Translation:
My friend, we have seen enough of this play. We are going home, you can stay.
— Dard
References
- Homayra Ziad, "Poetry, Music and the MuHammadī Path" Journal of Islamic Studies, 21,3 (2010), 345-376.