Siraj Aurangabadi
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Siraj Aurangabadi was a famous mystic poet. He was born at Aurangabad Maharashtra. His full name was Siraj-ud-Din Aurangabadi.
siraj was the only other poet from Deccan to have left deep imprint on the tone and diction of Urdu
. Siraj was one of the two front ranking poets who actually led life of a mystic, other being Mir Dard
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, Siraj gave ghazal a new orchestration of mystical experience. Hence his ghazals have two dimensional layers of meaning the mystical and metaphysical at one level, and secular and physical at another. Siraj’s masnavi Nazm I Siraj, though based on saga of love remains an embodiment of the emotion of love revealing the mysteries of life through sorrow and yearning. Siraj had his share of influence on the north Indian Urdu poets along with Wali Dakhni
and after that Iqbal (Illama) and his lyrical ghazals are admired and emulated today.
Life
Along with Wali DakhniWali Mohammed Wali
Wali Muhammad Wali , was a classical Urdu poet of the subcontinent....
siraj was the only other poet from Deccan to have left deep imprint on the tone and diction of Urdu
Urdu
Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...
. Siraj was one of the two front ranking poets who actually led life of a mystic, other being Mir Dard
Khwaja Mir Dard
Khwaja Mir Dard was born in 1721 and died in 1785. He is one of the three major poets of the Delhi School—the other two being Mir Taqi Mir and 'Sauda'—who could be called the pillars of the classical Urdu ghazal.-Philosophy:...
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Works
The anthology of his poems titled Kulliyat-i-Siraj contains his ghazals along with his famous masnavi Nazm-i-Siraj. Influenced by famous Persian poets like HafizHafez
Khwāja Shamsu d-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Shīrāzī , known by his pen name Hāfez , was a Persian lyric poet. His collected works composed of series of Persian poetry are to be found in the homes of most Iranians, who learn his poems by heart and use them as proverbs and sayings to this day...
, Siraj gave ghazal a new orchestration of mystical experience. Hence his ghazals have two dimensional layers of meaning the mystical and metaphysical at one level, and secular and physical at another. Siraj’s masnavi Nazm I Siraj, though based on saga of love remains an embodiment of the emotion of love revealing the mysteries of life through sorrow and yearning. Siraj had his share of influence on the north Indian Urdu poets along with Wali Dakhni
Wali Mohammed Wali
Wali Muhammad Wali , was a classical Urdu poet of the subcontinent....
and after that Iqbal (Illama) and his lyrical ghazals are admired and emulated today.
See also
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- Wali DakhniWali Mohammed WaliWali Muhammad Wali , was a classical Urdu poet of the subcontinent....
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