Mir Taqi Mir

Mir Taqi Mir

o  Mir taqi mir

Introduction

Mir Muhammad Taqi Mir (February 1723 - twenty one September 1810), conjointly referred to as Mir Taqi Mir or Meer Taqi Meer, was a number one Urdu writer of the eighteenth-century Mughal India, and one of the pioneers who gave shape to the Urdu language itself. He was one of the principal poets of the Delhi School of the Urdu ghazal and is often remembered as one of the best poets of the Urdu language. His thallus (pen name) was Mir. He spent the latter a part of his life within the court of Asaf-ud-Daulah in Lucknow.

o  Life

The main supply of knowledge on Mir's life is his life story Zikr-e-Mir, that covers the amount from his childhood to the start of his sojourn in Lucknow. However, it is said to conceal more than it reveals,with material that is undated or presented in no chronological sequence. Therefore, several of the 'true details' of Mir's life stay a matter of speculation.

Mir was born in Agra, India (then called Akbarabad and ruled by the Mughals) in August or February 1723. His gramps migrated from Hedjaz to Hyderabad State, then to Akbarabad. His philosophy of life was fashioned primarily by his father, a spiritual man with an outsized following, whose emphasis on the importance of love and the value of compassion remained with Mir throughout his life and imbued his poetry. Mir's father died whereas the writer was in his teens. He left Agra for Delhi a few years after his father's death, to finish his education and also to find patrons who offered him financial support (Mir's many patrons and his relationship with them are represented by his translator C. M. Naim).

Some students think about 2 of Mir's mancaves (long narrative poems end-rhymed in couplets), Mu'amlat-e-ishq (The Stages of Love) and Khwab o khyal-e Mir ("Mir's Vision"), written in the first person, as galvanized by Mir's own early romances, but it is by no means clear how autobiographical these accounts of a poet's passionate love affair and descent into madness are. Especially, as Frances W. Pritchett points out, the austere portrait of Mir from these masnavis must be juxtaposed against the picture drawn by Andalib Shadani, whose inquiry suggests a very different poet, given to unabashed eroticism in his verse.

Mir lived abundant of his life in Mughal Delhi. Kuchha Chelan, in Old Delhi was his address at that time. However, after Ahmad Shah Abdali's sack of Delhi each year starting 1748, he eventually moved to the court of Asaf-ud-Daulah in Lucknow, at the king's invitation. Distressed to witness the plundering of his beloved Delhi, he gave vent to his feelings through some of his couplets.

o   Literary life

His complete works, Kulliaat, consist of six Diwans containing 13,585 couplets, comprising all kinds of poetic forms: ghazal, masnavi, qasida, rubai, mustezaad, satire, etc.Mir's literary reputation is anchored on the ghazals in his Kulliyat-e-Mir, abundant of them on themes of affection. His masnavi Mu'amlat-e-Ishq (The Stages of Love) is one among the best best-known love poems in Urdu literature.

Mir lived at a time once Urdu language and poetry was at a formative stage – and Mir's natural aesthetic sense helped him strike a balance between the native expression and new enrichment coming back in from Persian imagination and idiom, to constitute the new elite language known as Rekhta or Hindui. Basing his language on his native Hindustani, he lights it with a sprinkling of Persian diction and choice of words, and created a poetic language at once simple, natural and elegant, which was to guide generations of future poets.

The death of his relations, alongside earlier setbacks (including the traumatic stages in Delhi), lend a powerful pathos to abundant of Mir's writing – and so Mir is noted for his poetry of pathos and melancholy.

o   Mir and Mirza Ghalib

Mir's celebrated up to date, conjointly Associate in Nursing Urdu writer of no inconsiderable repute, was Mirza Rafi Sauda. Mir Taqi Mir was often compared with the later day Urdu poet, Mirza Ghalib. Lovers of Urdu poetry typically discussion Mir's ascendence over Ghalib or contrariwise. It may be noted that Ghalib himself acknowledged, through some of his couplets, that Mir was indeed a genius who deserved respect. Here are two couplets by Mirza Ghalib on this matter.

• Reekhta ke tum hī ustād nahīṅ ho ğhālib
• Kehte haiṅ agle zamāne meṅ koī mīr bhī thā
• You are not the only master of Rekhta, Ghalib
• They say there used to be a Mir in the past
• —Mirza Ghalib
• Ghalib apna yeh aqeeda hai baqaul-e-Nasikh
• Aap bey behrah hai jo muataqid-e-Mir nahi
• Ghalib! It's my belief in the words of Nasikh[9]
• He that vows not on Mir, is himself unlearned!
• —Mirza Ghalib
• Ghalib and Zauq were up to date rivals however each of them believed the prevalence of Mir and conjointly acknowledged Mir's superiority in their poetry

o  Mir Taqi Mir in fiction

Khushwant Singh's celebrated novel Delhi: a completely unique provides terribly attention-grabbing details regarding the life and adventures of the good writer.

Mah e Mir could be a 2016 Pakistani history film directed by Anjum Shahzad and Fahad Mustafa plays the lead role of Mir Taqi Mir.

o  Further reading

• Mīr Taqī Mīr (1999). Zikr-i Mir: the life story of the eighteenth-century Mughal writer, Mir Muhammad Taqi ʻMir', 1723-1810. Translated by C. M. Naim. Oxford University Press. OCLC 42955012.
• Khurshidul Islam; Ralph Russell (1994). Three Mughal Poets: Mir, Sauda, Mir Hasan. OUP India. ISBN 978-0-19-563391-7.
• Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, Shiʻr-i shor angez : ghazaliyāt-i Mīr kā muḥaqiqānah intikhāb Qaumī Kaunsil barāʼe Farogh-i Urdū Zabān, 2006 (4-volume study on ghazals of Mīr Taqī Mīr)
• The tormented Heart: Mir and also the Eighteenth Century: 'The Golden Tradition, Associate in Nursing compendium of Urdu Poetry', Ahmed Ali, pp 23–54; Poems:134-167, university Press, 1973/ OUP, Delhi, 1991
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• Kumar, Ish (1996). Mir Taqi Mir. Makers of Indian Literature (2nd ed.). New Delhi.

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