Khwaja Mir Dard
Khwaja Mir Dard | |
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Native name | خواجہ میر درد |
Born | Syed Khwaja 1720 Delhi, Mughal Empire |
Died | 1785 (64-65) |
Occupation | poet |
Language | Urdu |
Genre | nafsi, lafzi |
Notable works | Chahaar Risaala, Ilm-ul Kitaab |
Khwaja Mir Dard (1720-1785) (Urdu: خواجہ میر درد) was a poet of the Delhi School. He was a Sufi saint of the Naqshbandi-Mujaddadi religious order.
Poetry[]
Dard's couplet on this illusory life, from 'Ilm-ul-Kitab':[1]
دوستو، دیکها تماشا یاں کا بس |
My friends, we have seen enough of this play. |
—Dard |
References[]
- ^ https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.440328 Khwaja Humair Dard, Ilm Ul Kitab (in Urdu), p. 476
External links[]
Categories:
- 1721 births
- 1785 deaths
- Indian Muslims
- 18th-century Indian poets
- Urdu-language poets
- Sufi poets
- 18th-century Urdu-language writers
- Urdu-language religious writers
- Poets from Delhi
- Urdu-language writers from British India
- Urdu-language writers from Mughal India