Muztar

The book says Muztar was born and educated at Lucknow, that his ancestors occupied an honourable rank at Delhi, and that he was a pupil of Mushafi. It gives no dates.

The one piece given here is drawn from Hindustani Lyrics (London: The Sufi Publishing Society, 1919), in the English verse of Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook. It is a free rendering, not a literal translation, and the original Urdu poem is untitled; it is named here by its first line.