Taban

The book describes Taban of Delhi as famous for his beauty as for his poetic talent, a pupil of Hatim and a friend of Mazhar and Sauda, descended from the Prophet on both his father’s and mother’s side.

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.