Click here for background and on any passage for word meanings and explanatory discussion. jaimini sarshaar (1905-1984). Born and raised in rural muzaffar gaRh. He worked as editor of various magazines, but it is not clear if he had any college education, job or lands. He migrated to sonipat, punjab in the middle 1940s. shaagird of tilok chand mahroom. Started composing in 1920, his urge to compose triggered by the jaaliaaNvala baaGh massacre. He wrote patriotic and national nazm with a strong dose of communal harmony. His Ghazal and nazm were published in local magazines, and eventually took the shape of four collections.
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tuu jaa raha hai kis pe hameN chhoR kar yahaaN
baiTha hai kaun vaaqif¹-e dard-e-jigar² yahaaN   1.knowledgable, familiar with 2.pain of the liver, pain of living
‘kisi pe chhoR ke jaana’ is an expression meaning leaving something or someone in the responsibility of. Thus, in whose responsibility are you leaving us i.e., who will take care of us now. Who is here who is familiar with the struggle of life.
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viiraan¹ kar ke jaa’e bil’aaKhir², isi liye
tuu ne bana liya tha har ek dil meN ghar yahaaN   1.desolate 2.at last, finally
Because you had to had to finally abandon this place, you made a home in every heart here. This is a loving complaint saying that you are leaving desolate hearts behind.
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shaa’ed¹ shifa² nasiib³ meN biimaar ke nahiN
baiTha na jam⁴ ke aah koii chaaragar⁵ yahaaN    1.perhaps 2.cure 3.fate 4.firmly, finally 5.healer
The ‘biimaar’ here are the people of India. Perhaps a cure for the ills was not in the fate of the people that is why no healer remained here for long.
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apni taraf¹ se chhoRi nahiN tu ne kuchh kasar²
qismat se sab ilaaj³ hue be-asar⁴ yahaaN    1.direction, side 2.inadequacy 3.cure 4.ineffective
On your side, you did not spare any effort, did not leave any stone unturned (did not make an inadequate effort). It is our effort that all cure was ineffective.
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rakkhe umiid¹ kya dil-e hasrat-nasiib² aah
mayoos³ jab keh ho gaye tujh se tabiib⁴ aah    1.hope 2.fated to have (unfulfilled) yearning 3.disappointed 4.doctor, healer
How can they keep hoping, those whose hearts are fated to have their yearning not fulfilled; when they face disappointment even with a healer like you.
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baarish yahaaN jab-bhi Gham¹ o aalaam² ki rahi
ham Gham-zadoN³ ko aas⁴ tere naam ki hui    1.sadness 2.calamities 3.sorrow-stricken 4.asha, hope
Whenever sadness and calamities have rained on us, the sorrow-stricken ones have held on to hope in your name.
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un be-kasoN¹ ke Gham meN raha tuu bhi be-qaraar²
jin par nigaah³ gardish-e-ayyaam⁴ ki rahi    1.powerless 2.restless 3.eyes, target 4.vicissitudes of time, life events
You too were restless in the sorrow of the helpless who were (in the eyes of) the target of the vicissitudes of time.
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tuu ne sipar¹ ka kaam jo mazloom² ko diya
zaalim³ ki teGh⁴-e kiiN⁵ na kisi kaam ki rahi    1.shield 2.oppressed 3.oppressor 4.sword 5.spiteful
You who handed the oppressed a shield to defend themselves, made the oppressors’ spiteful sword ineffective.
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yaksaaN¹ sulook² hindu o muslim se tha tera
koii tamiiz³ kufr⁴ na islaam meN rahi   1.uniform, same 2.behaviour, treatment 3.differentiation 4.non-belief
Your treatment of hindus and muslims was alike. There was no differentiation/discrimination between non-believers and believers.
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aivaaN¹ meN tujh se laRte the jo baat baat par
naalaaN-kunaaN² haiN vo bhi ab teri vafaat³ par   1.halls (of parliament) 2.weeping, wailing 3.death, passing
Those who opposed you on every issue in parliament are also weeping now at your passing.