Professor Mahmood – ul-Hassan Sial
Munir Ahmed Niazi was born on19 April 192 and died on 26 December 2006). He was a Pakistani poet of the Punjabi and Urdu languages. He also wrote for newspapers, magazines and radio. He founded a publication institute, Al-Misal in 1960. Later, he associated himself with Pakistan Television. He died in Lahore and was buried in
Munir Niazi’s Urdu and Punjabi poetry made him so popular in spite of the fact that he was a poet, short story writer, columnist, journalist and a songwriter.
‘O Muneer! Is this country haunted or something wrong has happened to it? It moves very fast, but travels very little!’
Muneer Niazi had always been blamed for being influenced by his inflated egos, egoism and conceit. It was out of place to blame that the isolated incidents and rumors painted his insurmountable personality and being out of context. Muneer Niazi was not a man with an attitude problem rather he himself exposed and proved himself. He was a man who belonged to the real world. He was not a poet who was lost in an arcane, imaginary world; he was a man of reality, fact and solidarity.
Hamesha Dair Kar Deta Hoon Main
Har Kaam Karnay May
Zaroori Baat Kehne Ho
Koi Wada Nibhana Ho
Usay Aawaz Deni Ho
Usay Wapis Bulana Ho
Hamesha Dair Kar Deta Hoon Main
Munir Niazi endeavored to rediscover himself as a friendly and down-to-earth poet and person. He was far away from the world of conviction as it was fabricated against him by some malicious atmosphere of stingingly natured critics. Dr Sumaira Ijaz unveils the fact from the attic of unconcern and obliviousness that Muneer Niazias as a person and poet tries to impart the real message of his poetry. He tried to show himself as the person who somehow created false impressions about himself because he had suffered a lot. It was a smoke screen raised against him. The painful incidents of his life forced him to forge a reaction against the contemporary obsessions and social injustice portraying him as a man with hostile designs of mind. All this was due to his sensitive nature and keen observation. The poet’s childhood memories show that he in fact was deeply moved by the incidents taking place around him. He was infect like Nick Adams, The Hero of Earnest Hemingway’s short story, “The Killers”, a small boy approaching his teens, who observed all the heinous and pernicious acts of murder and street massacres happening around him leaving deep and irremovable marks on his inner world of sensitivity. As a man, he observed , felt and was moved by the world of bitter realities holding sway around him; as a poet he gave went to the feelings that made his mind gleaned and pregnant with the reaction against the social injustice and violation.
اے عاشقان حسن ازل غور سے سنو
میں برگ بے نوا تو نہیں ہوں کہ چپ رہوں
دل کے کسی بھی شعلے کو عریاں نہ کر سکوں
میں تیغ ہاتھ میں لیے سوئے فلک گیا
جذبوں کے رس سے مہکے ہوئے چاند تک گیا
کافی تھا ایک وار مری تیغ تیز کا
مہتاب کے بدن سے لہو پھوٹ کر بہا
A recently published book by Misaal Publishers Faisalabad has cleaned all the charges leveled against Munir Niaz’s egoistic nature. But Muneer Niazi witnessed so many demonized chapters of pathetic life that took place in this country His sense sense of despair was the result of his sense of wonder. His verses seem versatile and universal forever. They unveil the fact that he was a very profound and fanciful man.
Delving down into the minuteness about his life the early years, was deeply engrossed in and influenced by the beauties of literature.
He often sat on the warm sand of coastal areas of his beloved city Mombay and had an intimate and intricate communion with his silent friends–the magazines of his time and the books. He could not continue his job in navy because he was not at home with the strict environment of the field. He was in fact a real and pure poet with the tenderness of heart and too much tendency towards poetry due to his poetic nature. As a man his qualified all the tests and trials of navy and as a poet he deserted this field. In spite of a lot of punishments from the martial atmosphere of navy, he was battered severely and staggered powerlessly ensuring the fact that the unearned suffering in the way of the completion of his inner poetic world was redemptive. His poetic nature supported him in the process of his elevation and grandeur and he bore the brunt of the grim following steps of opposition and nullification from the strict ministry of defense. Once he shook the shackle of the jolts and shocks of the tribulations of the past dark material and martial mechanization, he started to strive to heighten and strengthen his poetic seasonings educating him for the grand points in the world of deep insights into higher knowledge.
As a man, Munir Niazi loved sports very much. He loved hockey and decided to devote his life for hockey in order to quench the thirst of the keenness for hockey. But soon, he could not provide a hostage to the professional exospheres and he started feeling obsession. His professional and materialistic inclinations were overcome by his innate and personal inclinations towards the world of Plato, Aristotle, John Keats, Mirza Ghalib and Allama Iqbal drove him towards the world of renunciation and unconcern to the above said world of numbers and figures. He was attracted instinctively by the unique acumen of his learned and illustrious professors, met Allama Tajver Najeebabadi, Syed Abid Ali Abid and Dr Khalifa Abdul Hakeem. During his studies at Sadiq Egerton College and was deeply and greatly inspired by their insurmountable heightening Alghenies.
After partition of the Sub- continent, , he migrated to Montgomery enjoyed the unique and exemplary moments of poetic regeneration in the company of the pillaring personality of Majeed Amjad, rooted in his self deeply the modern poetry, breathed deeply and effectively under his nurturing patron ship ,mentorship and friendship. This modern advancement marred his sense of solitude and attics of loneliness and he felt deprived of the blessings and bounties of seclusion being driven away into the world of disappointment, dejection and dismal world. He was not able to talk poetry to any one or read it in front of anyone. Miracouslousely, he come into the company of the legendary being, Majeed Amjad in Lahore, and restored and revived all his wants.
Dr Sumaira Ijaz finds out the real fact about Muneer Niazi’s preceding life, numerous setbacks in his life left his mind and soul greatly suffered and some times crippled. His biographical details, psychological and mental upbringing of the poet’s coming to limelight on the literary scene in the 1950s and 1960s, his creative journey and his literary skirmishes with Urdu’s literary giants expose themselves actually when we share the conclusions about Munir Niazi’s matchless existence with that of the rest of literary mentors..
Muneer Niazi is aptly classed among the poets of modern Urdu ghazal. Geet, or song, give a proof of his being under the influence of Hindi traditions and mythology. So, it goess without saying that his poetry surpasses his personality.
Munir’s wit was shattering. His personality was irreverent. His fond for drinking was unshakable. He had many worlds residing in his world. He cherished uncountable centuries behind the closed doors of his mind. His intellect has an invisible universe residing in his inner self. The political tornadoes disrupted the calm and serene world of his mind. His poetry such self-revealing that it forced all isolated world to adopt the road that quiet and unspeaking road and no one knows its direction. Munir visualizes a girl who stands on her rooftop feeling like a string of pearls or a stray cloud.
He did not belong to the world of mysterious, engrossed world. He was a live wire infusing the current of activity and action in the souls and spirits of his followers. The true perspective of poetry had indeed been introduced by the everlasting and evergreen nature and labour of the poet Munir Niazi.
Author is PhD Scholar and Vice Principal at Punjab College, Jhang and can be contact a Email: rajanasial1313@gmail.com
