Dear Mods,

With your due permission I wish to start a thread to comemorate the memories of a Great Urdu Poet Mirza M. Rafi Sauda (1713 - 1781).

Sauda was the leading urdu poet of his time. His name Mirza Muhammad Rafi. Sauda was born in A.H. 1125 [1713-14][1]. His accomplishments were a cause of pride to the city of Delhi. His father Mirzā Muḥammad Shafī was from the aristocratic family of Kabul. His ancestors were soldiers by profession. Mirzā Shafī came to India by means of trade. According to some, he got his pen-name 'Sauda' from his father's profession (saudāgar). \"But the truth is that the poets of Asia, in every country, live and breathe through love; and saudā [=madness] and dīvānagī [=madness] are born together with love. Thus madness too is a cause of pride to lovers. So with regard to this he chose 'Saudā' as his pen-name, and thanks to saudāgarī [=merchandising] the verbal device of punning came as a 'special free offer' into his poetry.\"[2] He was raised and educated in Delhi. His house was in the Kabuli Gate area, which was destroyed in the destruction of Delhi in 1857. Sauda originally wrote poetry in perian but on Khan-e-Arzu, his senior and mentor persuasion started writing in urdu. Saudā was first the pupil of Sulaiman Quli Khan 'Vidad',and then of Shah Hatim. Shah Hatim in the introduction to his volume in which gives a list of his pupils, has recorded Sauda's name with great pride and He outlived Sauda. He was not a pupil of Khan-e-Arzu, but benefited from his company. With time he gained fame and recognition, even during his lifetime his ghazals were on the lips of folks of Delhi. He found patronage in the Mughal king of the time, since he was a man of great pride and honor left the royal court forever over an argument with the king over poetry. But he found numerous patrons among nobles of the time. His fame reached Nawab Shuja ud Daula of Awadh and he got invitation to leave Delhi for Lucknow. At the age of 60 or 66 years he left Delhi, and stayed for some time in Farrukhabad, with Navab Bangash. He wrote a number of odes in praise of the Navab. In A.H. 1185 (1771-72]), he arrived in Lucknow in the court of Navab Shuja-ud-Daulah for first and the last meeting with the nawab and never went back till Asif-ud-Daulah became nawab of Lucknow. He was invited once again to the court of Awadh by Asif-ud-Daulah with gifts and honors and he remained associated with the nawab till his death in A.H. 1195 (1780-81), when he was 70 years of age according to hijri calendar. When Shah Hatim heard the news, he wept profusely and said, 'What a pity, my champion of poetry has died'.

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do chaar gha.Dii ronaa, do chaar gha.Dii baate.n

kia bat ha sauda g ki

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