By TCN News,
Riyadh: Prominent Urdu poets from across India enthralled a huge audience of about 2,000 Indians at a historic All-India Mushaira (poetry session) organized in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia on Friday night, June 4.
The Mushaira was organised by Indian community organizations – India Islamic
Cultural Center (IICC), BISWAS and Bihar Anjuman.
The historic poetry session was moderated by well-known Urdu poet Majid Deobandi and presided over by prominent poet Taahir Faraz.
Besides the duo, other centers of attractions were comic poets Sikandar Hayat Gadbad and Iqbal Shana.
They recited their popular couplets on demand one after another to enthrall the audience as the public kept on asking for ‘once more’ requesting to recite their choice of Ghazals.
Deobandi mesmerized the audience with his famous couplets:
Allah mere rizq ki barkat na chali jaaye
Do roz se ghar me koi mehman nahi hai
Ham ne to banae hen samandar men bhi raste
Yoon ham ko mitana koi aasaan nahin he
Do char ummeedon ke diye ab bhi hen roshan
Maazi ki haveli abhi veeran nahin he
Faraz also enthralled the Urdu lovers with his popular Ghazals and couplets:
Is bulandi pe bahot tanhaa hoon
Kaash main sab ke barabar hota
Pahale kuchh dur tak sath chal ke parakh
Phir mujhe hamsafar hamsafar bolana
Popular for their good comic sense and entertaining poetry Sikandar
Hayat Gadbad and Iqbal Shana well accompanied in taking the evening to
public elegance as the poetry session progressed.
Other poets who recited their poetry at the Mushaira included Khursheed Nayyir, Zafar Mahmood, Shafeeq Nadwi and some young local poets.
Program conveners Murshid Kamal, Laique Ahmad Azmi and Misbah ul Arefeen
(IICC) Akhtar Ul-Islam Nadwi, Mukhtar Khan and Naushad Ahmad (BISWAS)
and Jabed Husain, Muneer Ahmad and Kaunain Shahidi (Bihar Anjuman),
Riyadh chapter welcomed the guest poets, presented them bouquet and
memento.
Ghizal Mahdi, President of Jamia Millia Islamia Alumni Association, Riyadh presented memento to Majid Deobandi for his contribution to Urdu literature and poetry.
Earlier, the convener of the overseas chapter of India Islamic Cultural Centre welcomed the audience and shed light on the significance of Mushaira.