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Mir Taqi Mir Poetry
Khuda-e-Sukhan, the god of poetry, as later poets called him. Read Mir’s best-known ashaar, simple words carrying deep sorrow, download any as a picture, and learn about his life.
- Full name
- Muhammad Taqi
- Known as
- Khuda-e-Sukhan
- Born
- 1723, Agra
- Died
- 1810, Lucknow
- Best known for
- Six diwans of Urdu ghazals
Shayari
Famous ashaar of Mir Taqi Mir
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پتا پتا بوٹا بوٹا حال ہمارا جانے ہے
جانے نہ جانے گل ہی نہ جانے باغ تو سارا جانے ہے
نازکی اس کے لب کی کیا کہیے
پنکھڑی اک گلاب کی سی ہے
ابتدائے عشق ہے روتا ہے کیا
آگے آگے دیکھیے ہوتا ہے کیا
الٹی ہو گئیں سب تدبیریں کچھ نہ دوا نے کام کیا
دیکھا اس بیماریِ دل نے آخر کام تمام کیا
دل کی ویرانی کا کیا مذکور ہے
یہ نگر سو مرتبہ لوٹا گیا
میرؔ کیا سادے ہیں بیمار ہوئے جس کے سبب
اسی عطار کے لڑکے سے دوا لیتے ہیں
شام سے کچھ بجھا سا رہتا ہوں
دل ہوا ہے چراغ مفلس کا
ہستی اپنی حباب کی سی ہے
یہ نمائش سراب کی سی ہے
آگ تھے ابتدائے عشق میں ہم
اب جو ہیں خاک انتہا ہے یہ
Life
Muhammad Taqi was born in Agra in 1723. His father, a pious man, died when Mir was about ten, and he moved to Delhi as a young man. He lived through the worst years of the city: the invasion of Nadir Shah in 1739 and the raids of Ahmad Shah Abdali, which emptied Delhi of its poets and patrons.
In 1782 he left for Lucknow at the invitation of Nawab Asaf-ud-Daula, and he spent the rest of his life there, proud, poor and homesick for Delhi. He died in Lucknow in 1810.
Poetry and style
Mir’s language is plain, close to everyday speech, yet his ghazals carry a sorrow few poets have matched. Ghalib himself wrote that whoever thinks he is a master should know that there was once a Mir. His lines have the ease of conversation, which is why so many of them became proverbs.
Books
- Kulliyat-e-Mir: his six diwans of Urdu ghazals, with masnavis and other poems
- Zikr-e-Mir: his autobiography, in Persian
- Nikat-ush-Shuara: an early account of the Urdu poets of his time
Write your own verse in Nastaliq
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Questions
About Mir Taqi Mir
Why is Mir called Khuda-e-Sukhan?
Later poets gave him the title, god of poetry, for his mastery of the ghazal.
When did Mir Taqi Mir live?
From 1723 to 1810.
Where did Mir die?
In Lucknow.
What is Mir’s most famous sher?
پتا پتا بوٹا بوٹا حال ہمارا جانے ہے is among the most quoted.