Ghalib Shikan-Mirza Yagana Yaas Changezi

[sharib]

Salaam ,

Mirza Yaganaa Yass Changezi appears to be a big name. It was really big....but how big ...one can differ from the other.

He was from Patna in India whose other name is Azeemabaad also. So he is known as Yaas Azeemabadi as well. He migrated to Lucknow[india,UP] and made it as his watan-e saanee.....and perhaps passed away in around late /middle 1940s.

Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza did his doctoral work on this great poet from Aligarh Muslim University.

We can have more discussions about this poet if you people contribute or try to know about him....or educate us if you already know about him

As far as I know, he was an Ustad in his own right. Namoomna-e Kalaam.

"Chitvano se milta hai kuch suraag baatin ka,

Chaal se to kaafir ke saadgi barasti hai."

When he was mistreated by Lucknowites ( he was also at fauly for that), he wrote this sher {read in the background that he was basically from Patna migrated to Lucknow}

"Watan ko Chor kar jis sar zameen se dil lagaya thaa,

Wahee ab khoon kee pyaasi bani hai karbala ho kar"

He was of the opinion that everything is not good in Kalam-e Ghalib.....this became so strong a feeling in him that he termed himself as Ghalib Shikan.

That perhaps made him more controversial and eclipsed his Shairi

More information and ashaar expected from fellow visitors here ..

Wassalam

Edited December 6, 2008 by sharib

[sharib]

Salaam,

one more from him where he acknowledged his obsession :

"Khudee ka nashha chada aap mein raha na gaya,

Khuda bane theiy Yagana ,Magar banaa na gayaa,

wassalam

[naqshipa]

sharib sb

ek boht khobsorat silsily ka agaaz kia hei ap ne

yagana k klam se koch monthkib ashar pesh hein...

[sharib]

sharib sb

ek boht khobsorat silsily ka agaaz kia hei ap ne

yagana k klam se koch monthkib ashar pesh hein...

Salaam naqushipa,

For some reason ,the link is not opening, so I am unable to see those ashaar.

Ek umda sher aur dekhiye:

Jeemein aata hai ke mein phoonk doon bastee saaree,

kya karoon beech mein ek aap ka ghar padta hai.

Duniya ke bache rahne kaa yeh sabab gaur farmain.

wassalam

[Amra]

Adaab arz hei,

eik khubsoorat silsile ki ibtidaah,

Hum ne socha kuch inki halaat e zindagi ke baare mein hazir karte chalain ..........

umeed hei madakhlat nagavar na guzre gee

:-)

Yagana Changezi

Mirza Yaas Yagana Changezi was one of the most important Urdu poets of the twentieth century and inddeed among the masters of Urdu petry. Real name was Mirza Wajid Hussain (chronological name Mirza Fazl ali Baig)[1]. He was born in Azeemabad, now Patna (Bihar) in 1884 (according to some sources 1883). He was a bright student and always won scholarships but he couldn’t go beyond entrance examination that he passed from Calcutta University. At an early period of his life he shifted to Matyaburj, in Calcutta, where he became the tutor of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah’s grandson Mirza Muqeem and his children. But the climate of Matyaburj did not suit him and he returned to Azeemabad and later shifted to Lucknow.

In the begining he used the pen name 'Yaas' meaning despair, and addressed himself as Yaas Azeemabadi, but changed it later on to 'Yagana' (meaning unique), and became Yagana Lackhnawi and finally Yagana Changezi. He considered himself from the Changezi mughal lineage[2]. He was sixth in the generation of his ancestors who migrated from Iran during Mughal era. According to author of the foreword to his first poetry collection Nashtar-e-Yaas, Two brothers Hasan Ali Baig Chughtai and Murad Ali Baig Chughtai came from Iran, and beacame part of Mughal court, one of whom got the jagir of Azeemabad and settled there. He was in the lineage of Mirza Hasan Baig Chughtai.

He was an iconoclast and rebellious by nature. Seeing Ghalib's extreme veneration, he took to demolishing Ghalib's iconic status and that earned him hostility of his contemporaries in Lucknow and elsewhere. He was ostracized and harassed for his views and writings. Finally he was declared apostate and went through extreme kind of humiliation at the hands of people in Lucknow. The place and people he had so fondly adpoted that he changed his Name from Yaas Azeemabadi to Yagana Luckhnawi.

He himself writes:

Watan ko chhod kar jis sar zameen se dil lagaya tha Wohi abkhoon ki pyaasi hui hai Karbala ho kar

(Having left the motherland, gave heart to the place which has now become thirsty of my blood like Karbala).

He died on the night of 2nd february 1956 after battling through long illness and loneliness in later years of his life. According to Najeebuddin Jamal while quoting Malik Ram, a famous Urdu Scholar says that Yagana had lost his mental balance in his later years and held Yagana's contemporaries and people of Lucknow

Work and contribution

Yagana’s first collection of poetry was Nashtar-i-Yaas which appeared in 1914 when he was 30 years of age and his second collection, Aayat-i-Wijdani, was published in 1927. In 1933 came Tarana, and in the year 1934 and 1945, the second and third edition of Aayat-i-Wijdani appeared. Each edition of Aayat-i-Wijdani was a bit enlarged, in 2003 Kulliyat-i-Yagana was compiled by Pakistani scholar and writer Mushfiq Khwaja and has the opinion that Yagana or his publishers appeared to be naive regarding the art of presentation. Thus, Yagana has four collections of poems to his credit: Nishtar-i- Yaas (1914), Tarana (1933), Aayat-i-Wijdani (1927) and Ganjina (1948), besides his works in prose, including Ghalib-Shikan.

In 1946, Sajjad Zaheer persuaded Yagana to prepare his Kulliyat so that it could be published by the publication house of the Communist Party of India — Qaumi Darul Ishaat, Bombay. Yagana agreed and the Kulliiyat saw the light of the day. "This collection, however, proved to be so unwholesome that we could consider it a major tragedy. Some couplets were added and some corrected (rather changed to the extent that Yagana lost his cool and blew up)"[4].

According to novelist, sort story writer and columnist Intezar Husain, "Mushfiq Khwaja has done a great job. He has managed to pull out a poetic genius from the oblivion where he had been pushed by his hostile contemporaries. They saw to it that he was personally humiliated as a poet. His uncompromising attitude in respect of his literary opinions and his unorthodox thinking in matters of religion made their task easy. While still alive, he was consigned to the grave along with his poetry. His poetic work remained unpublished. Most of us had heard of him only as a crackpot with no respect for the greats of Urdu poetry.[5]"

Thus, Yagana was not only an important poet he was immensely gifted poetic genius-equal only to masters of poetry like Mir, Ghalib and Iqbal-whose contemporaries could not accept his wrtings and ideas and he was not well taken rather misunderstood and mis-interprated by his detractors.

His following couplets which are referred to as anti-religion are in no way a statement against religion and Persian and Urdu poetry is full of similar kind of verses.

Khudi ka nasha charhha, aap main raha na gaya

Khuda banay thay Yagana, magar bana na gaya

Sab terey siwa kafir, Aakhir iss ka matlab kya

Sar phira dey insaan ka, Aisa khabt-e-mazhab kya

The compilation of Kulliyat-e-Yagana by Mushfiq Khwaja is considered to be an event of significant literary imporatance and resurrection of the great poet to his deserving status in Urdu literature[6]".

[sharib]

Salam ,

shukria Amra for the inputs.

I am not sure about the date of demise of this poet. Can you tell me?

Though he was "Ghalib Shikan"....'yet he found similarity between him and Ghalib. i.e. both were great admirer of HZ. Ali.

So wrote Yagaaana:

"dono deewane hain Ali ke Talib,

jaan ek hai go juda juda hain qualib,

mazhab mein ,shairi mein. quamiat mein,

Ghalib hain Yagana aur Yagana Ghalib.

wassalam

[Amra]

He died on the night of 2nd february 1956 after battling through long illness and loneliness in later years of his life. According to Najeebuddin Jamal while quoting Malik Ram, a famous Urdu Scholar says that Yagana had lost his mental balance in his later years and held Yagana's contemporaries and people of Lucknow responsible for it. Yagana himself was aware of the condition and wrote about it in one of his letters.

:)

dono deewane hain Ali ke Talib,

jaan ek hai go juda juda hain qualib,

mazhab mein ,shairi mein. quamiat mein,

Ghalib hain Yagana aur Yagana Ghalib.

wah wah wah

buahat hee khub

bauhat umda aur kamal ka kalaam

bauhat hee umda

daad talab!

apka intekhaab hamesha umda hota hei

:-)

[sharib]

Shukria Amra,

Do, Ek sher aur bhee dekhiye:

To kya hameein hain gunehgaar ,husn-e yaar naheen,

Lagavaton ka gunahon mein kya shumaar nahin.

Badal na jai zamaan-e ke saath neeyat bhee ,

suna to hoga jawani ka aitbaar nahin

wassalam

[sharib]

salam,

ab es thread per bhi kuch ronaq honi chahiyie hai.

ws

Zaroor,

Yagana ke last reported sher baat nahin ho payee thee.

Sher ka doosra misra bahot hee umda hai :

"Lagavaton ka gunahon mein kya shumaar nahin"

aur ab pahla misra parhein:

"To kya hameein hain gunehgaar ,husn-e yaar naheen"

Aap kee rai ? hai.

wassalam