Pyaar Ka Jazba

Today's post is about a ghazal that I had listened to in early 2002. Its sung by the new-age ghazal singing duo of Ustad Ahmed Hussain and Mohammed Hussain. They hail from Rajasthan and are the uncles of the Sa Re Ga Ma fame Mohammed Vakil. Since listening their ghazals first in 2002, I have consciously tried to acquire and listen to their renditions. Amongst their famous ones are Pahle Mere Geet, Main Hawa Hoon, Woh Jo Hum Mein Tum Mein etc.

Jumping right to the ghazal Pyaar Ka Jazba is set in some form of Raga Yaman (my musically untrained ears can only identify the Yaman lakshan) and has a medium meter. The sher of the day is the matla itself and is as follows:

प्यार का जज्बा नया रंग दिखा देता है ।
अजनबी चेहरे को महबूब बना देता है ।

Literatim:

जज्बा = emotion/feeling/passion

Verbatim: The emotion of love is a powerful one - it transforms a person completely and makes him embrace a complete stranger as though (s)he is an inseparable conjugate.

Discussion: The meaning is easily fathomable - nothing fancy. Love changes people completely and brings out a gamut of emotions that people didnt believe they can exhibit. It gives hope to hopeless, power to powerless, and within no time the beloved becomes almost the purpose of one's entire life. Again, it can be related to at an elevated plane where the context is the ONE - the love and belief in god transforms a persons individuality and suddenly the purpose of his(er) life changes.

Do take a listen to this one - it ranks up there among my favorite ghazals. Some of the other shers in the poem are equally beautiful (and probably even carry more deeper meaning) and hopefully they will feature soon on the blog.


--Sifar.