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Saghir Siddiqui: Biography

 

 

 

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
clinical depression
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 or Saharanpur.   This we know because of Saghir's autobiographical note published in the 1972 edition of Government College, Lahore's  literary journal "Ravi".

 

His childhood was spent in these two towns.  As a result of some tragic family debacle, Saghir left the home of his parents. At the age of 12, he was living with his High School teacher Habib Hasan in Amritsar.  Saghir never divulged his family origins.

 

He read his first ghazal at a poetry reading in Amritsar in 1944 (Hall bazaar, Amritsar). Ameen Geelani was his first literary friend at Amritsar.  He was 19 years old at the time of the creation of Pakistan and migrated to Lahore.

 

At Lahore, his friends came to include Younas Adeeb,  Ahmad Rahi (Urdu and Punjabi poet), Zaheer Kashmiri (Urdu poet), Nafees Khalili, Sahir Ludhianvi (Urdu poet who became successful in Bollywood), Niresh Kumar Shad and Latif Anwar.  The golden period of Saghir's creativity was the 1950's.  In later years, personal emotional setbacks led to a downward spiral of alcohol addiction and drifting on the roads of Lahore as a homeless beggar! 

I remember that we were living in the Walled City (Lahore) neighborhood near Loharee Gate in 1966 when I was woken up at night by a commotion in our street. It turned out that Saghir Siddiqui was drunk and had wandered into our street. People were shouting at him and he kept repeating "I drank in the name of Imam Husain!" (Mein nay Husain kay Naam kee pee hay!"  It was a sad sight for such a talented Urdu poet.

Saghir died in 1974 in Lahore at the age of 46 and will always be remembered as one of the city's  most loved poets.

 

Biographical Note on Saghir Siddiqui 


Uploaded on Jul 11, 2009 at  KhamoshTamashai    a YouTube Channel

 

The Poet: Saghar Siddiqui ساغر صدیقی (takhallus: Saghar) was born in in Ambala انبالہ, Punjab (now in Haryana), India in 1928. He was named Muhammad Akhtar محمد اختر at birth. Perhaps he had an unhappy childhood, as he talked very little about it in his later years, even to his closest friends. It seems that he was the only child of his parents and he spent the early years of his life in Ambala and Saharanpur سہارنپور (UP, India). He received his early education from Habib Hassan حبیب حسن, a friend of the family. Young Akhtar was much impressed by this gentleman, and he got interested in Urdu poetry because of him. Then he moved to Amritsar, Punjab, India, mostly in search of work. There he used to make wooden combs and also started writing Urdu poetry. For some time he used Nasir Hijazi as his pen name, but later he switched to Saghar Siddiqui. At age 16, he would regularly attend mushairas. He sang his poetry in mushairas held in Jalandhar, Ludhiana, and Gurdaspur.

With his slim appearance, wearing pants and do ghora boski دو گھوڑا بوسکی (yellow silky cloth) shirts, with long curly hair, and reciting beautiful ghazals in a melodious voice, he was a huge success at the mushairas. Prior to 1947, he would visit Lahore every Sunday, sometimes to attend mushairas. In a mushaira at Lahore, جگر مراد آبادی Jigar Moradabadi (1890-1960) was so impressed by young Saghar that he kissed him on his forehead. He moved to Lahore in 1947 after the creation of Pakistan. For a while he worked for magazines. He also started his own magazine but after the third issue, he had to close it since people did not pay him for the ads they had placed. He sold the declaration of the magazine for Rs. 5.00. He also started writing the National Anthem for Pakistan and also worked for a while on a project to make a documentary about Kashmir. He had come to Lahore alone, but he had some friends like Zaheer Kashmiri ظہیر کاشمیری (from Amritsar) and Younas Adeeb یونس ادیب (who had met him at a pre-partition mushaira in Lahore). Gradually all his dreams were shattered. He was perhaps too honest and too sensitive for the world. He did not claim any property (as a refugee from India) in Lahore. Other than going to mushairas in other cities, he lived in Lahore. He rented rooms at various locations. In early 1950's, he became addicted to morphine. Some of the poets and publishers exploited him by offering him a few rupees for his ghazals. Those ghazals were then claimed by others or were published without Saghars permission. For his ghazals sung on the radio, he was given the royalty only once, and he used to ask his friends to get the royalty paid to him.

Gradually he completely disconnected himself from the normal world. For over 20 years, he roamed the streets of Lahore as a faqir in his black chaddar with his bare feet, long dirty hair, and unshaved beard. He usually walked on the Circular Road, south of the walled city and on streets like Anarkali Bazar, Akhbaar Market, Aibak Road, Shah Alami, and around the Data Darbar area. He would often hold mushairas on the footpaths, where he used to light his candles on a brick. Even as a faqir, he only asked for what he needed, and returned the rest. Many a times he distributed the hundreds of rupees he got for the songs he had written for movies to people he thought were more deserving than him. He comes across as a shy, patient, and a soft-spoken man who was never in anger and never used any foul word. He would used the term faqir فقیر or darvesh درویش for himself and would address others politely as baba بابا, Sayyidzadey سیّد زادے, or chchotey mian چھوٹے میاں . His last few days were extremely painful as he had started coughing blood. In those days he was dressed in a white kurta (a faqirs kafni کفنی, which he called his cross صلیب), had to use glasses as he could not see properly, and had to walk with the help of a stick. A was found dead on a roadside on 19 July 1974. He was buried at the Miani Sahib graveyard.

Despite his shattered life, some of his verses are among the best ever written in Urdu. It is unbelievable that he kept his inner self so pure and so transcending. May God give his soul peace and happiness in the hereafter, which his body did not get in this world.

Perhaps he says it all in this verse:
یاد رکھنا ہماری تُربت کو
قرض ہے تُم پہ چار پھُولوں کا
yaad rakhna hamari turbat ko: karz hai tum pe chaar phoolon ka

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