Muzaffar Ali's Paigham -e - Mohabbat, Songs of Love Options

[Bhavita]

A collection of Ghazals composed by Muzaffar Ali, released in 2000.


Here is the preface to the album, by Muzaffar Ali

An album of poetry of this century, of poets of a united Indiawho witnessed the partition of this country and could express the anguish of this trauma through their poems. Love and human concerns reigned supreme in their poetry...separation from their soil, their friends, their beloved have found dual meanings in their verse...The poets have responded to the needs of the moment, in response to the political machinations and the effect on the helpless human have been internalised in the imagery of his ghazal...the beloved becoming his country and himself the lover. The dreamers of the pen continued their struggle for freedom...for the oneness of man...the eternal lover; an egalitarian world...the garden of love...together in an undivided India and after 1947 across both borders...they rejected the artificial boundaries that divided their heritage and nostalgia.

Their romanticism triggered off the spirit of revolution within dreamers on both sides. Some were imprisoned; some exiled; their language was decimated so that their ode of love remains onto themselves. This is humble tribute to these giants.

I have composed these poems with simplicity so that the ghazal or the nazm comes through with its original feeling and inherent rhythm... and transalated them into simple English for those who do not understand Urdu well. The selection is ofcourse not representative and many great poets of this era and genre are not included...my choice was simple. I chose what I could instinctively hum on reading once it conformed to the theme.

This post has been edited by Bhavita: Feb 21 2010, 01:32 PM

[Bhavita]

Muzaffar Ali's website http://www.muzaffarali.com/html/music.htm states that Paigham-e-mohabbat was released in 1998. However the cassette cover I have states 2000. Hence uploaded here : http://www.4shared.com/dir/31712756/b3b98a...am_-_e_-_M.html

The collection:

1. Ghulam tum bhi the yaaro
Poet - Ali Sardar Jaffry, Recited by Muzaffar Ali himself.

2. O des se aanewaale bata
Poets - Ahmed Faraaz anf Akhtar Sheerani, Sung by Abida Parveen

3. Jinse hum chhut gaye
Poet - Rahi Masoom Raza, Sung by Nurul Hassan

4. Awwal awwal ki dosti hain abhi
Poet - Ahmed Faraaz, sung by Ustad Moin Khan and Chhaya Ganguly

5. Aaj yun mauj dar
Poet - Faiz Ahmed Faiz, sung by Sukhwinder Singh

6. Sarvo saman bhi
Poet - Moinul Hasan Jazbi, sung by Abida Parveen

7. Main sar jhukaye
Poet - Ahmed Faraaz, Recited by Muzaffar Ali

8. Hum ke thehre ajnabi. This ghazal is blended with a beautiful poem in Bengali - "Monay pode aaj shay kon jonanay bidai shondhabela...."
Poets - Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Qazi Nazrul Islam
Hum ke thehre ajnabi is in the voice of Ustad Moin Khan and the Bengali rendition by Shorjo Bhattacharya

9. Aahat si koi aaye
Poet - Jan Nissar Akhtar sung by Abida Parveen

10. Kabhi unke milan ki aasha ne
Poet - Ibn e insha, voice - Swati Natekar

11. Sukut e shaam mitao and 12. ab tumhi kaho
Poets - Firaq Gorakhpuri and Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Voices - Muzaffar Ali, and Kavita Krishnamurthy

13. Ek lafze mohabbat
Poet - Jigar Moradabadi, sung by Abida Parveen

14. Paas rehta hain door rehta hain
Poet - Abdul Hameed Adam, sung by Sukhwinder Singh

15. Jonomo jonomo gaelo aasha potho chahi (Bengali) and 16. woh batein teri woh fasane tere
Poets - Qazi Nazrul Islam and Abdul Hameed Adam, sung by Kavita Krishnamurthy

16. Farz karo ke hum ahl e wafa ho
Poet - Ibn e insha, sungh by Chhaya Ganguly
A reference to this ghazal is here too - http://ekfankaar.wordpress.com/category/ar...chhaya-ganguli/

17. Awwal shab woh bazm ki raunak
Poet - Arzoo Lucknavi, Sung by Abida Parveen

18. Usi ada se usi baankpan ke saath aao and 19. Yeh kaun aata hain tanhaiyon mein jaam liye
Poet -Makhdoom Mohiuddin, poem recited by Muzaffar Ali, and song sung by Abida Parveen

This post has been edited by Bhavita: Feb 21 2010, 01:40 PM