His first volume of poetry Aks-e-Faryadi (The Supplicant’s Reflection) was published in 2000. This trait recently came to the fore when Turabi came down hard against his contemporaries Iftikhar Arif and the late Parveen Shakir on social and mainstream media. A few think that there was a contradiction in his personality and his critical vision with respect to work was the cause of differences with some people.
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That is why he always used to say that one should love humans and use things. To care about people, to help and worry for them was a part of his self.
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But he said that a tiny plant will be unable to breathe below such a giant tree.Īlso read: The Poem That Forced Sahir Ludhianvi to Leave Lahore Forever He could have followed in his father’s footsteps because he had many qualities of an orator. He was intent on carving an individual personality from the beginning. Turabi quit debates and said, “I get first position my father is given credit and if I obtain third position then my father’s name is defamed.” In one such competition, he got the third position, upon which one of his teachers remarked to him, ‘Next time bring a better speech written by your father’. When he was studying at school, he began his journey with debates. He obtained an MA degree in journalism from the University of Karachi in 1968. After the creation of Pakistan, his family migrated to Karachi, where he grew up. Who was Naseer Turabi? He was born in Hyderabad Deccan on June 15, 1945, to eminent religious scholar and khateeb Allama Rashid Turabi. Undoubtedly Naseer Turabi was a big name but he was never as popular as others. Turabi himself, while mentioning this soundtrack, had said that when it was finalised for the drama, the production house did not even know who its author was. She used to live in the same mohalla as Turabi and both were on genial terms with each other, after which this ghazal was moulded into song. In 1980 at least three decades before this ghazal became famous as the soundtrack of the Humsafar drama in the voice of Quratulain Balouch, it was sung first by Abida Parveen. In the same manner, Turabi too wrote this ghazal in the background of the emergence of Bangladesh. This ghazal too can be opened up to multiple meanings in that it has been very much composed for a lover though a ghazal has its own treatment so it should always be seen from this view. For example if one considers the ghazal of Faiz Ahmad Faiz, he too had written on the separation of East Pakistan from Pakistan, ‘ Khoon ke dhabbe dhulenge kitni barsaaton ke baad’ (After how many rains will the blood stains wash away). Direct matters are addressed in poems while in the ghazal tries to make the reader understand allusions and rhymes. Indeed ghazals are always written in this very manner. However if we analyse its background, this ghazal was written by Turabi after the creation of Bangladesh. After the ghazal ‘ Voh humsafar tha magar us se humnavai na thi‘ became famous, whenever Turabi went, people would request him to recite this ghazal.Īlso read: A Poet in the Soiree of Sincerity: Mustafa Zaidi, 50 Years On If we review the words of this ghazal and the story of the Humsafar, one feels as if this ghazal is very much written for this drama, which was based on the story of two characters forced to separate. The one who parted possessed everything, treachery was an exception) There were animosities, negligence and a lot of indignation That there was a state of sun and shade, but not separation (He was a fellow traveler but we did not speak in unison Ke dhoop chhaon ka aalam raha judai na thiĪdaavaten theen, taghaful tha, ranjishen theen bahutīichhadne vaale mein sab kuchh tha, bevafai na thi
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Vo ham-safar tha magar us se ham-navai na thi This ghazal by Naseer Turabi was part of it. But how many of us know that Naseer Turabi was its author? In 2011, the popular television drama Humsafar attained spectacular popularity, and its soundtrack became evergreen.
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This popular ghazal is perhaps known to all. (He was a fellow traveller but we did not speak in unison) Voh humsafar tha magar us se hum-navai na thi He was buried in Karachi on the following day. One had still not fully come to terms with the death of Shamsur Rahman Faruqi last Christmas, when news came on January 10, that Naseer Turabi too had left us, felled by a heart attack at 75. (Come, in our house for a few days Naseer, let us now remainįor he is not found at home, the people complain) Logon ko ye shikva hai ke ghar par nahin milta Kuchh roz Naseer aao chalo ghar mein raha jaaye