![]() He does not seem quite willing to grant krshn personhood, yet thinks of him as a glorious conceptual construction. In this and the next group of ash’aar, hafiz depicts krishna as a being/concept/spirit, with vague resemblances to sufi and vedantic mysticism. Ye fikrat-e-aali 3 1.secret, mystery 2.image of imagination 3.high/sublime thought He calls upon krishn to save her honour, moves on the battle scene, victory and with a climax with a call to krishn to return and bring back the good old times. He moves to the court of duryodhan where draupadi (symbolically colonized India) is about to be disrobed/unveiled. It then makes a sudden change to the misery of the enslaved/colonized present (at the time of writing). ![]() The nazm flows from abstract sufi/vedantic to bhakti/devotional to a recall of past glory. Yet he wrote this nazm (probably before partition) symbolizing draupadi as colonized and dishonored India and krishn as liberator. hafiz jalandhari was an orthodox, observant muslim and after partition was a strident Pakistani nationalist. ![]() Click here for background and on any passage for word meanings and explanatory discussion. ![]()
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