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Saghir Siddiqui Ghazals

 

 

ساغر صدیقی
اصلی نام محمد اختر؛
سنہ 1928 تا 1974؛ 46 سال کی عمر میں وفات
لاہور کے ایک جدید اُردو شاعر ۔ ۔ ۔ لڑکپن انبالہ اور سہارن پور مشرقی پنجاب، برٹش انڈیا ۔ ۔ ۔ کھاتے پیتے گھرانے کے واحد فرزند ۔ ۔ ۔ ماں باپ نے گھرانے کے ایک قریبی دوست حبیب حسن کو اتالیق مقرر کیا تاکہ بیٹا گھر ہی میں رہ کر تعلیم پائے۔ لڑکپن ہی سے ساغر نے شعر کہنا شروع کر دیے تھے۔ گھر والوں سے ناراض ہو کر گھر سے بھاگ کر امرتسر چلے آئے اور لکڑی کی کنگھیاں بنا کر گزارا کرنا شروع کیا ۔ ۔ ۔ سنہ 1944 سے، سولہ برس کی عمر میں، امرتسر، جالندھر،لدھیانہ اور گُرداس پور میں اردو مشاعروں میں شعر پڑھنا شروع کر دیے اور جلد ہی مشہور ہو گئے۔ سنہ 1947 میں 19 برس کی عمر میں پاکستان بننے پر ہجرت کر کے لاہور میں آن بسے۔ ایک ادبی جریدہ نکالا جو تجارتی طور پر کامیاب نہ ہو سکا۔ کسی ذاتی نوعیت کی واردات یا حادثے نے ساغر کو عین نوجوانی میں، اُن کی حسّاس طبیعت کی بدولت، نفسیاتی دباؤ اور طبّی نوعیت کی پژمردگی
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میں مبتلا کر دیا ۔ ۔ ۔ اُن دنوں نفسیاتی دباؤ یا ڈیپریشن کے مرض کا کوئی خاطر خواہ علاج ممکن نہیں تھا۔ لیبر لیڈر اور افسانہ نگار قمر یورش اپنے ادبی خاکہ نگاری کے مجموعے یاران ِ مے کدہ میں ساغر کے بارے میں لکھتے ہیں کہ ایک جاننے والے نے ساغر کو لاہور کے پاگل خانے میں داخل کروانے کے لیے درخواست دی اور چالاکی سے ساغر سے اُس پر دستخط بھی کروا لیے۔

نفسیاتی دباؤ کے باعث ساغر نے نشے کا سہارا لیا ، قلاش ہو گئے، سڑکوں پر بے گھر فقیر کی زندگی اپنا لی، ہسپتال کے چپڑاسیوں سے مارفین لے کر استعمال کرنے لگے اور دن رات لاہور کی سڑکوں پر آوارہ گھومنے لگے

مجھے 1967 کا اپنے بچپن کا واقعہ یاد ہے جب ہم لاہور اندرون شہر کے محلے کوچہ پیر شیرازی ، لوہاری دروازہ، میں ایک کئی منزلہ عمارت کے فلیٹ میں رہتے تھے۔ اچانک رات 12 بجے کے قریب عمارت کے صحن سے جھگڑے کی آوازیں آنے لگیں۔ میرے والد نیچے گئے تو معلوم ہؤا کہ ہماری عمارت کے کچھ مکینوں نے ایک فقیر کو گھیرا ہؤا ہے جو گلوُ گیر آواز میں بلند آواز سے اعلان کرتا جا رہا ہے

"میَں نے حُسین کے نام کی پی ہے"

میرے والد نے اُس فقیر کو پہجان لیا ۔ ۔ ۔ وُہ ساغر صدیقی تھے ۔ ۔ ۔ میرے والد نے بیچ بچاؤ کروا دیا اور ساغر صدیقی اندرون شہر کی اُن خوبیدہ گلیوں کی تاریکی میں گُم ہو گئے ۔ ۔ ۔

 


Saghir Siddiqui (1928 - 1974) was born in Ambala and spent his childhood in Saharanpur, British India.  His school teacher Habib Hasan had a lasting impression on him. Habib Hasan raised Saghir's awareness of Urdu language as well as Urdu literature, especially Urdu poetry. After a major break up with his parents, Saghir moved to Amritsar where he lived with his teacher Habib Hasan, used to make wooden combs to earn a meagre living and made a major splash as a lad of 19 in the Poetry Readings (Mushaa-eraas) in Amritsar. Upon creation of Pakistan, Saghir moved to Lahore, Pakistan where his poetry blossomed. 1950's were the golden creative years for Saghir. A career that was going nowhere, unrequited love and the general apathy of Lahore's intelligentsia towards a poor young man who was head and shouders above most of them in literary talent and the sheer fire of creativity led to a downward spiral, with morphine addiction and ultimately an untimely death at the age of 46 on 19th July, 1974 when his dead body was found lying on the roadside.

His long time friend Younis Adeeb collaborated with the renowned Lahore publisher Safdar Husain (Al-Hamd Publishers, Lahore) to publish his Collected Verse as "Kulliyaat e Saghir Siddiqui" which is a master piece in modern Urdu poetry. 

The Urdu ghazals of Saghir Siddiqui are steeped in the birth pangs of a newly born, raw and bloody Pakistan. 

The pain of every man's dreams betrayed in the strange dawn of our land, Pakistan, is palpable in Saghir Siddiqui's ghazals.

He was the Woody Guthrie of Pakistani poetry . . .  living on the streets of his beloved Lahore to his dying days,  unable to reconcile himself to a mundane existence after the personal break  up and loss he had suffered and falling back on alcohol to relieve the pain of his existence.

The raw reality of the individual's existence in a modern world emerging from broken personal relationships is seared into every image of Saghir's poetry.

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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