Mushafi

The book says Mushafi belonged to a distinguished family of Amroha, lived at first at Lucknow and then went to Delhi, where he held famous literary reunions at which gathered many poets of whom he was the inspirer and teacher.

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.