Hosh walon ko khabar kya bekhudi kya cheez hai,
Ishq kijiye phir samajhiye zindagi kya cheez hai.
About Nida Fazli
Late 20th - 21st Century (Conversational Modernist) · The conversationalist of modern Urdu poetryNida Fazli (1938–2016) wrote ghazals and Hindi-flavoured dohas in the language of everyday speech. A Sahitya Akademi and Padma Shri winner, he is loved for verses on childhood, faith, travel and kindness that never feel like lectures.
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Kabhi kisi ko mukammal jahaan nahin milta,
Kahin zameen kahin aasmaan nahin milta.
“No one ever gets a complete world — somewhere the earth is missing, somewhere the sky.”
Ghar se masjid hai bahut door, chalo yun kar lein,
Kisi rote hue bachche ko hansaya jaye.
“The mosque is far from home, so let us do something else: make a crying child laugh.”
Safar mein dhoop to hogi jo chal sako to chalo,
Sabhi hain bheed mein tum bhi nikal sako to chalo.
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Reading Nida Fazli: where this sher fits
Themes to watch for: childhood, compassion over ritual, incomplete lives, travel and migration, plain speech as honesty. Read his dohas first, then the ghazals 'Safar mein dhoop to hogi' and 'Hosh walon ko khabar kya'.
Worth knowing: He wrote that the best poetry should sound as natural as a conversation overheard in a train.