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Saare Jahan Se Achchha: gift for Independence day

This post is a gift to Indian all over the world on the eve of 64th Independence day celebrations. This post has the lyrics of the song in Hindi, Urdu, Roman with translation. Also audio and video links attached. Happy Independence Day!

  Saare Jahan Se Achchha 

 

Music has all the power and can do wonders which the science is proving today.

But India the land of music has proved it much earlier that music has the power to change the nature and God also likes good music. Miyan Tansen (popular as Tansen) one of the greatest musicians of the world from India has the power to call for rain through his Raga Megh Malhar, control animals and it is also said that at times when Tansen used to sing in the courts of Akbar the great the candles use to light-up on their own.  

During the freedom struggle music became one of the main motivational force bring all the patriots eventually.

Thus is the year 1904 a weekly journal Ittehad printed a poem on 16 August which became Tarana-E-Hind. This song knitted the whole of India in one rosary and still is the most popular song after 107 years. This song is ode to old Hindustan of which Bangladesh, Pakistan and India were on the whole one part. Though this song was written as poem for the children but with the span of time has become the Anthem of the People of Hindustan. The song was sung by the lyricist Allama Mohammad Iqbal at the Government College, Lahore (now part of Pakistan) as Saare Jahan Se Achchha... (Urdu:سارے جہاں سے اچھا). Iqbal the lecturer at the Government College, Lahore was requested by Lala Har Dayal to preside over the function and instead of delivering a speech Iqbal sung this song. This song was published in Bang-i-dara an Urdu book published in 1924.

This song has not only has elegiac qualities but has made the Hindus and the Muslims to unite in greater extent. This song was sung by Mahatma Gandhi many times when he was imprisoned in the Yerawada Jail in Pune in the 1930s.

Here are the lyrics as a gift on the eve of Independence Day

In Urdu script:

سارے جہاں سے اچھا ہندوستاں ہمارا

ہم بلبليں ہيں اس کی، يہ گلستاں ہمارا

غربت ميں ہوں اگر ہم، رہتا ہے دل وطن ميں

سمجھو وہيں ہميں بھی، دل ہو جہاں ہمارا

پربت وہ سب سے اونچا، ہمسايہ آسماں کا

وہ سنتری ہمارا، وہ پاسباں ہمارا

گودی ميں کھيلتی ہيں اس کي ہزاروں ندياں

گلشن ہے جن کے دم سے رشک جاناں ہمارا

اے آب رود گنگا، وہ دن ہيں ياد تجھ کو؟

اترا ترے کنارے جب کارواں ہمارا

مذہب نہيں سکھاتا آپس ميں بير رکھنا

ہندی ہيں ہم وطن ہے ہندوستاں ہمارا

يونان و مصر و روما سب مٹ گئے جہاں سے

اب تک مگر ہے باقی نام و نشاں ہمارا

کچھ بات ہے کہ ہستی مٹتی نہيں ہماری

صديوں رہا ہے دشمن دور زماں ہمارا

  اقبال! کوئي محرم اپنا نہيں جہاں ميں

معلوم کيا کسی کو درد نہاں ہمارا

In Hindi Script:

सारे जहाँ से अच्छा हिन्दोस्तान हमारा
हम बुलबुले है इसकी ये गुलसिता हमारा ॥धृ॥

घुर्बत मे हो अगर हम रहता है दिल वतन मे
समझो वही हमे भी दिल है जहाँ हमारा ॥१॥

परबत वो सब से ऊंचा हमसाय आसमाँ का
वो संतरी हमारा वो पासबा हमारा ।२॥

गोदी मे खेलती है इसकी हजारो नदिया
गुलशन है जिनके दम से रश्क-ए-जना हमारा ।३॥

ए अब रौद गंगा वो दिन है याद तुझको
उतर तेरे किनारे जब कारवाँ हमारा ॥४॥

मझहब नही सिखाता आपस मे बैर रखना
हिन्दवी है हम वतन है हिन्दोस्तान हमारा ॥५॥

युनान-ओ-मिस्र-ओ-रोमा सब मिल गये जहाँ से
अब तक मगर है बांकी नामो-निशान हमारा ॥६॥

कुछ बात है की हस्ती मिटती नही हमारी
सदियो रहा है दुश्मन दौर-ए-जमान हमारा ॥७॥

इक़्बाल कोइ मेहरम अपना नही जहाँ मे
मालूम क्या किसी को दर्द-ए-निहा हमारा ॥८॥

Roman Transliteration

sāre jahān se acchā hindostān hamārā

 ham bulbulain hai is ki, yeh gulsitān hamārā

ghurbat men hon agar ham, rahta hai dil vatan men

 samjho vahīn hamen bhī, dil hain jahān hamārā

parbat voh sab se ūnchā, hamsāya āsmān ka

 voh santari hamārā, voh pāsbān hamārā

godi men kheltī hain is ki hazāron nadiyā

 gulshan hai jin ke dam se, rashk-e-janān hamārā

aye āb, raud, ganga, voh din hen yād tujhko

 utarā tere kināre, jab kārvān hamārā

maz'hab nahīn sikhātā āpas men bayr rakhnā

 hindvi hai ham, vatan hai hindostān hamārā

yūnān-o-misr-o-romā, sab miṭ gaye jahān se

 ab tak magar hai bāqi, nām-o-nishān hamārā

kuch bāt hai keh hastī, miṭati nahīn hamārī

 sadiyon rahā hai dushman, daur-e-zamān hamārā

iqbal ko'ī meharam, apnā nahīn jahān men

 m'alūm kya kisī ko, dard-e-nihān hamārā

Translation

Better than the entire world, is our Hindustan,

 We are its nightingales, and it (is) our garden abode

If we are in an alien place, the heart remains in the homeland,

 Know us to be only there where our heart is.

That tallest mountain, that shade-sharer of the sky,

 It (is) our sentry, it (is) our watchman

In its lap frolic those thousands of rivers,

 Whose vitality makes our garden the envy of Paradise.

O the flowing waters of the Ganges, do you remember that day

 When our caravan first disembarked on your waterfront?

Religion does not teach us to bear ill-will among ourselves

 We are of Hind, our homeland is Hindustan.

In a world in which ancient Greece, Egypt, and Rome have all vanished without trace

 Our own attributes (name and sign) live on today.

Such is our existence that it cannot be erased

 Even though, for centuries, the cycle of time has been our enemy.

Iqbal! We have no confidence in this world

 What does any one know of our hidden pain?

 

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Justice with dead…a noble gesture

It is service to Humanity

Hoardings are the skylines of the present modern cities educating the common public for the forthcoming products, schemes, etc. OOH is common term in the advertising industry which means Out Of Home advertising. Billboards and hoarding are being expedited and the research and development in advertising industry have revolutionarised this mode of advertisement. The catchy and elegant hoardings and billboards add to the decoration of the cities, we can say these are the clothing for the cities. But in Faizabad we see difference in the OOH advertising–there is no product or catchy caption–in stead it reads; if you find unidentified body or unattended patient contact Mohd Sharif.

Mohd. Sharif who has defeated sorrows 

I read it and out of curiosity went to meet Mohd Sharif. A person more than 70 years in age, with grey beard, wearing white kurta pajama, performing a job of a cycle mechanic, which is his only source of livelihood. Residing in Mohalla Khidki Alibeig, Mohd Sharif also dreamt unlike all the parents to educate his children and this he did to the brim making his eldest son-Mohd Rais-a doctor. Mohd Rais went to Sultanpur–a small town in UP’s Awadh region–and never returned back. His clothes and the wrist watch proclaimed his mysterious death after about a month. As per the normal human behaviour one is shattered on the death of ones young off-spring but it was different in case of Mohd Sharif. The entire episode had a turning point. Death of his young son left his wife in a state of shock leaving her speechless, till date. Mohd Sharif could not perform the last rituals for his son and since then till today has performed last rituals of more than 1600 dead considering all to be his own loved ones.

Mohd. Rais, son of Sharif Chacha

18 years have passed for this Good Samaritan doing this noble act. His act is not confiding to Muslims but to Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, etc and he performs the last rites of the dead according to their respective religious rituals. He has criminated about 900 Hindus, 600 Muslims and rest from other faiths. When asked why he started to do this the prompt reply from Mohd Sharif was, “All the human beings are children of one God and I have pledged that I will do this till my last breath to save others from the fate like my son”.  This humanly cause of Mohd Sharif has added a suffix to his name as Chacha–uncle–and is now popular as Sharif Chacha.

Thanks giving prayers starts the day of Sharif Chacha at about 5 am which is sequential to his daily walk to the local hospital of which he is an integral part now, as stated by a hospital staff. A senior resident doctor said, “I have seen patients recovering with the kind and parental care of Sharif Chacha and going back to their homes. Without fail he comes here and does the sponging and cleaning of the patient’s body which the real parents might not do sometimes”.

Faizabad is adjacent to Ayodhya which has seen a communal riot on the eve of demolition of Babri Masjid. But it is Mohd Sharif who has been the thread to weaving the communal blanket with his noble gesture. It is not only that he takes care of the unclaimed dead bodies of Faizabad but also from Ayodhya. “His transformation is completely remarkable. He could have nurtured anger towards humanity for his son’s death as not able to perform the last rituals, in stead he started to perform the last rituals for all the abandoned death bodies and made it his strength,” was the comment of C. K. Mishra a journalist.  R. S. Gupta the city magistrate said, “Sharif Chacha is our identity. He is a living symbol of national integration”. All the people of Faizabad and Ayodhya respect Sharif Chacha from common citizens to the priests and the government officials. “We all adore Sharif Chacha the torch bearer of humanity and it was this year that we facilitate him on the Republic day,” were the comments of R. K. S Rathore (IPS).

An African had been playing the role of Hanuman in Ayodhya for many years. It happened so that the actor got badly burnt during the performance. None of the Ram Bhakt came forward to care for the ailing Ram Bhakt. It was only Sharif Chacha who took care of him till his last breath. “According to Hindu scriptures, the family of the dead is entitled to perform the last rites but when Mohd Sharif does it for the unclaimed dead is a supreme act,” was the comment of Acharya Satendrya Das (Main Priest Sri Ram JanamBhoomi). He further added that Sharif’s age has never been any hindrance in his noble acts and that too single handedly. Dr. KarunaSheel (Budh Priest) said, “Sharif Sahib is a living angel doing the noblest job for the people who are entirely dependent on others for the final journey. He is not given help of any kind from anyone but he still performs his act as a duty”.

An old house property of Wafq Board has been the shelter for this Good Samaritan for all these years. The financial conditions for this living angle are always meager and still in this derisory state he is happy with a desire of wedding for his daughter who has attained the age of marriage. “I request the government to provide me a railway pass so that I may take the patients to their homes after they recover to health,” was the desire which Sharif Chacha shared with me.

It was a group of youngsters who jointly put in efforts and made a documentary on Sharif Chacha, “Rising from the Ashes”. “They came to this city and work with me and it was first time I felt that there are people in this world who have a caring heart,” said Sharif Chacha. “Rising from the Ashes” is produced and directed by Mohd. Gufaran Khan, Shah Alam, Syed Ali Akhtar and Shariq Haider Naqvi who have proved that we still have the heart and all the people are sons of one God.