Fighan

Fighan of Delhi was, according to the book, the foster-brother of the Emperor Ahmad Shah (r. 1748–1754) and one of the principal officers at the Imperial Court, famous for his piquant and witty conversation and greatly skilled in wordplay. The book spells his name Fighan.

The 2 pieces given here are drawn from Hindustani Lyrics (London: The Sufi Publishing Society, 1919), in the English verse of Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook. They are free renderings, not literal translations, and the original Urdu poems are untitled; each is named here by its first line.