7 10 66 https://nmrashedarchive.com/files/original/715679d477547cf01ede774a9aee6de3.jpg 5b22cdb6680300f71dfe54d8a9e80653 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. No. of Files The number of files making up the digital item. 2 No. of Pages The number of pages in an item. 2 No. of Sheets The number of sheets in an item. 1 Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 4.6 x 7.3" Box The box in which the physical item is located. 2 Folder No. The number of the folder in which the physical item is located. 8 Folder Name The name of the physical folder in which the item is located. Letters of publishers and writers Item No. A unique number for an item within a folder. 44 Recipient The recipient of a letter or other item. Rashed, N. M. Digitizer Name of the person who scanned or re-scanned the item. Zahra Sabri Cataloger Name of the person who cataloged the item. Zain Mian Donor Name of the person who donated the item. Yasmin Rashed Hassan Year of Donation The year in which the item was donated. 2015 Repository Name of the institution in which the physical item resides Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Montreal Summary Faruqi, Shamsur Rahman. Letter from Shamsur Rahman Faruqi. To Rashed, N. M. May. 22, 1968. 2 pp. 1 sheet. 4.6 x 7.3". Black pen on card. Letter from Shamsur Rahman Faruqi to N. M. Rashed introducing himself and soliciting poetry for his literary periodical Shabkhoon. A crease in the center and identical marks at the top and bottom suggest this card was stapled shut for delivery. Urdu. Box 2. Folder 8: Letters of publishers and writers. 044. Digitized by Zahra Sabri. Catalogued by Zain Mian. Donated (2015) by Yasmin Rashed Hassan to the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Montreal. Article Beginning in 1968, Rashed kept up a correspondence with Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (1935-). Today Faruqi is one of the most renowned critics of Urdu literature in the world, and the author of many works of criticism and literature such as the recent novel <a href="http://www.riazshahid.com/2013/05/13/%DA%A9%D8%A6%DB%8C-%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF-%D8%AA%DA%BE%DB%92-%D8%B3%D8%B1-%D8%A2%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%DA%BA/">Ka’ī chānd the sar-i āsmān</a>. ;See the 2014 interview with Faruqi, "<a href="http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/books/the-last-ustad">The Last Ustad</a>." Faruqi had begun publishing his literary journal Shabkhoon (1966-2006) two years prior to the beginning of his correspondence with Rashed. At this time Rashed was in Tehran, working as Director of the UN Information Centre. A summary of the letter: <blockquote>From: Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, 23-D Thornhill Road, Allahabad -1, India. Written 05/22/1968. To: N. M. Rashed (Tehran, Iran). Received 06/19/1968. Faruqi begs pardon for contacting Rashed without any prior acquaintance. He has gotten Rashed's Tehran address from his friend Azizuddun Shakeel. Shakeel has sent Rashed a few copies of Faruqi's literary journal Shabkhoon and Faruqi hopes that Rashed will contribute something to it. Faruqi writes that Rashed has had a great influence on the new generation of poets, along with Faiz, so much so that the Progressives (taraqqī-pasand) are bent on proving that Rashed and Faiz are two of their own number. Ali Sardar Jafri has warmed to Faiz despite previously having qualms about him. Iftikhar Jalib's book Na’ī shā‘irī is filled with mentions of Rashed, and Jafri considers it a point of pride that he has published Rashed's poetry. Faruqi repeats his request that Rashed should contribute his poetry to ;Shabkhoon. He is sending 4 ;issues of Shabkhoon to Rashed via air mail, and will continue sending future issues.</blockquote>The Urdu poet and critic Iftikhar Jalib had published his collection of "new" Urdu poems <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19878504">Na’ī shā‘irī: Ek tanqīdī mut̤āli‘ah</a> ;two years previously in 1966.<a href="#fn1">[1]</a>According to Sean Pue, Rashed later sent Faruqi a copy of his poem "Ai samandar," which Faruqi published in the September 1969 issue of Shabkhoon.<a href="#fn2">[2]</a> <div><a href="#fref1">1</a> Jālib, Iftikhār. "Lisānī tashkīlāt" in Na’ī shā‘irī: Ek tanqīdī mut̤āli‘ah. Ed. Iftikhār Jālib. Lahore: Na’ī mat̤bū‘āt, 1966. pp. 247-274. For other references to Rashed in the same volume, see Safdar Mir's contribution "Bayābān-i junūn", pp. 5-22; and Fateh Muhammad Malik's essay "Na’ī shā‘irī aur jadīd shā‘irī", pp. 107-124. <a href="#fref2">2</a> Shabkhūn no. 40 (Sept. 1969): pp. 3-4.</div> Article Author Pasha M. Khan Article Timestamp 2015-07-24 Article Citation Khan, Pasha M. "Letter from Shamsur Rahman Faruqi." Noon Meem Rashed Archive, Jul 24, 2015. URL https://archive.org/details/LetterFromShamsurRahmanFaruqi Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from Shamsur Rahman Faruqi Subject The topic of the resource Rāshid, N. M., -- 1910-1975 Description An account of the resource Letter from Shamsur Rahman Faruqi to N. M. Rashed introducing himself and soliciting poetry for his literary periodical Shabkhoon. A crease in the center and identical marks at the top and bottom suggest this card was stapled shut for delivery. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Faruqi, Shamsur Rahman Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to Canadian copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source. Our provision of reproductions does not constitute permission to publish or reproduce images in print or electronic form. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1968-05-22 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Black pen on card Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NMRArch-02-08-044-letter-srf-nmr Language A language of the resource Urdu Ai samandar Ali Sardar Jafri Allahabad Faiz Ahmad Faiz handwritten Iftikhar Jalib letter Mohammad Safdar Mir Progressive Writers Association reception Shabkhoon Shamsur Rahman Faruqi Tehran https://nmrashedarchive.com/files/original/6513e674bde70d7a7a6c4aebad21eda3.jpg 01411cf5765d47f21b2eed3fb4fd034a Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. No. of Files The number of files making up the digital item. 1 No. of Pages The number of pages in an item. 1 No. of Sheets The number of sheets in an item. 1 Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 8 x 11.5" Box The box in which the physical item is located. 2 Folder No. The number of the folder in which the physical item is located. 5 Folder Name The name of the physical folder in which the item is located. English translations of NMR poetry and letters to editors Item No. A unique number for an item within a folder. 14 Recipient The recipient of a letter or other item. Coppola, Carlo Digitizer Name of the person who scanned or re-scanned the item. Zahra Sabri Cataloger Name of the person who cataloged the item. Zain Mian Donor Name of the person who donated the item. Yasmin Rashed Hassan Year of Donation The year in which the item was donated. 2015 Repository Name of the institution in which the physical item resides Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Montreal Summary Rashed, N. M. Letter from N. M. Rashed. To Coppola, Carlo. Apr. 11, 1966. 1 p. 1 sheet. 8 x 11.5". Typewritten. Letter from N. M. Rashed to Carlo Coppola, PhD student at University of Chicago, regarding a possible interview in the periodical Mahfil. English. Box 2. Folder 5: English translations of NMR poetry and letters to editors. 014. Digitized by Zahra Sabri. Catalogued by Zain Mian. Donated (2015) by Yasmin Rashed Hassan to the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Montreal. Article In 1966, Rashed exchanged letters with Carlo Coppola. Today, Coppola is a distinguished scholar of South Asia and a Professor Emeritus at Oakland University.<a href="#fn1">[1]</a> At the time, however, he was still a graduate student completing his PhD on Progressive Urdu Poetry at the University of Chicago.<a href="#fn2">[2]</a> Rashed was meanwhile resident in New York, where he worked as Director of the United Nations Information Center for Iran.<a href="#fn3">[3]</a> In the letter preceding this one, Coppola solicits an interview from Rashed. This interview is meant for publication in Mahfil, a journal of South Asian literature that Coppola co-founded with C. M. Naim in 1963. Coppola intended this interview for a special issue of Mahfil that would focus on literary culture in Pakistan. In the previous letter, Coppola informed Rashed he would be in New York for the Association of Asian Studies Convention between the 4th and 6th of April. He asked Rashed about the possibility of recording an interview during this time, but mentioned that he would need a tape-recorder as bringing his own would prove difficult. This interview, he tells Rashed, would examine current trends in Pakistani poetry, and address more general questions about the literary situation in Pakistan. A summary of Rashed’s response is below: <blockquote>From: N.M. Rashed, Room 1037, United Nations Headquarters, New York, N.Y., 10017. Written 04/11/1966. To: Mr Carlos [sic] Coppola, Box No. 39, Foster Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 60637. Replied 05/11/1966.<a href="#fn4">[4]</a> Rashed mentions he was unable to send a positive reply to Coppola’s letter as he remained unsure of his return from Geneva by April 6th. He has returned to New York on the 8th and inquires about Coppola’s visit and his possible disappointment at not being able to meet Rashed. Rashed echoes Coppola’s feelings that it would be difficult to record at the Asia Society. He informs him that tape-recording equipment is available at the UN office but it would be unsuitable for such personal use. Rashed mentions that he does not have a tape-recorder at home, but offers to answer Coppola’s questions via post. He suggests having a friend voice the questions on Coppola’s behalf, should recording equipment become available.</blockquote>As per Rashed’s suggestion, the interview was conducted via post. Rashed was very particular about his interviews: not only did he reorder and remove some of Coppola’s questions, but also insisted on first recording his answers and then having them transcribed. This, he felt, would preserve the freshness of the interview and make it “much more natural” than otherwise.<a href="#fn5">[5]</a> Despite Rashed’s keenness, however, the idea of an issue of Mahfil ;on Pakistani literature failed to materialise for quite some time. This likely happened as a result of the numerous difficulties Coppola faced in gathering submissions from other writers and translators, most of whom proved much less forthcoming than Rashed.<a href="#fn6">[6]</a> Indeed, though this interview was completed in 1966, it did not appear in Mahfil until 1971.<a href="#fn7">[7]</a> By this time, an Urdu translation had already been published in Rashed’s Lā = Insān, which came out in 1969. The Mahfil interview can be read <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/40874401?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents">here</a>. <div><a href="#fref1">1</a> "Department: - Department of Modern Languages and Literatures - Oakland University - Acalog ACMS," accessed August 12, 2015, http://catalog.oakland.edu/preview_entity.php?catoid=20&ent_oid=641&returnto=1555. <a href="#fref2">2</a> Coppola, Carlo. "Urdu poetry, 1935-1970: The Progressive Episode." The University of Chicago, 1975. <a href="#fref3">3</a> Zakir, Mohammed. Poems of N. M. Rashed: A Poet of the Third World.New Delhi: M. D. Publishing, 1995. p. 29. <a href="#fref4">4</a> Coppola’s first name is "Carlo" and not "Carlos" as Rashed has written here. <a href="#fref5">5</a> Letter from N.M. Rashed to Carlo Coppola, May 20th, 1966. Letter in Noon Meem Rashed Archive. <a href="#fref6">6</a> Letter from Carlo Coppola to N. M. Rashed, September 24, 1966. Letter in Noon Meem Rashed Archive. <a href="#fref7">7</a> Mahfil 7, no. 1/2 (1971): front matter.</div> Article Author Zain Mian Article Timestamp 2015-08-12 Article Citation Mian, Zain. "Letter from N. M. Rashed." Noon Meem Rashed Archive, Aug 12, 2015. URL https://archive.org/details/LetterFromN.M.Rashed Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from N. M. Rashed Subject The topic of the resource Rāshid, N. M., -- 1910-1975 Description An account of the resource Letter from N. M. Rashed to Carlo Coppola, PhD student at University of Chicago, regarding a possible interview in the periodical Mahfil. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Relation A related resource IsRelatedTo NMRArch-2-05-044-mahfil-cover-inside, IsRelatedTo NMRArch-2-05-045-mahfil-interview-corr Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rashed, N. M. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to Canadian copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source. 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Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. No. of Files The number of files making up the digital item. 2 No. of Pages The number of pages in an item. 2 No. of Sheets The number of sheets in an item. 1 Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 7 x 12" Box The box in which the physical item is located. 2 Folder No. The number of the folder in which the physical item is located. 18 Folder Name The name of the physical folder in which the item is located. NMR's letters to his daughter Yasmin Rashed Hassan Item No. A unique number for an item within a folder. 1 Recipient The recipient of a letter or other item. Hassan, Yasmin Digitizer Name of the person who scanned or re-scanned the item. Zahra Sabri Cataloger Name of the person who cataloged the item. Zain Mian Donor Name of the person who donated the item. Yasmin Rashed Hassan Year of Donation The year in which the item was donated. 2015 Repository Name of the institution in which the physical item resides Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Montreal Summary Rashed, N. M. Letter from N. M. Rashed. To Hassan, Yasmin. May. 7, 1969. 2 pp. 1 sheet. 7 x 12". Pen on yellowish aerogramme. Letter from N. M. Rashed to Yasmin Hassan. Writing in top right corner notes the letter was sent from Tehran. Blue Ink on reverse says: "Replied June 23rd". Aerogramme is different in appearance from others in folder. The colour is yellow-green and "Pust-i hawā’ī-i Īrān" is titled across the reverse in small writing. Urdu. Box 2. Folder 18: NMR's letters to his daughter Yasmin Rashed Hassan. 001. Digitized by Zahra Sabri. Catalogued by Zain Mian. Donated (2015) by Yasmin Rashed Hassan to the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Montreal. Article Several letters from Rashed to his family members are preserved in the Archive. This one, to the donor of the Archive, Rashed's second daughter Yasmin Hassan, dates from the early years of Yasmin and her husband Faruq Hassan's life in Canada. Two major events in Rashed's life are mentioned here. His third book of poetry, Lā = Insān, has been published by Munir Niazi's press, proving to the younger poets of Pakistan that Rashed is alive and well, as he triumphantly writes ("yih na'ī paud ke shā'ir mujhe qarīb qarīb marhūm o maghfūr samajh chuke the"). Secondly, for the first time Rashed has become a grandfather—he professes that this an odd feeling ("shāyad ab dāṛhī rakhnā paṛe!") A summary of the aerogramme is below: <blockquote>From: N.M. Rashed, Tehran P.O. Box 1555, Tehran, Iran. Written 05/07/1969. To: Mr. and Mrs. Farooq Hassan, 601 Beaverbrook Street, apt. 4, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Replied 06/23. NMR writes from Tehran that he has received Yasmin Hassan's letter of 26 April, 1969. Yasmin and Faruq Hassan are now renting a new accomodation in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Congratulates Yasmin on becoming an aunt. NMR confesses that it feels strange to be a grandfather. His correspondence with his son Shahryar has been very rushed on the latter's side recently. NMR has written for the second time to Munir Niazi asking him to send the Hassans 1 copy each of the 3 recently published books. Says that Yasmin should write directly to Saddan Khan, who has been looking for her pass-book in Karachi and may have found it by now. NMR sent some money to Yasmin in March. NMR asks whether Faruq Hassan is still writing his "Chhotī barī nazmeñ." Lā = Insān has created quite a stir in Pakistani literary circles. NMR believes that the younger poets had assumed that he had practically passed away already. Seeing the new poetry, poets like Iftikhar Jalib have had to admit that he is very much alive, side-by-side with the new generation. Lā = Insān is receiving good reviews in the newspapers and periodicals. It has been emphasized to Tamzin that she should write to Yasmin soon. However Tamzin's exams are approaching in June.</blockquote>In 1969, Rashed's second daughter Yasmin Hassan and her husband Faruq Hassan were living in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Faruq Hassan had begun a Masters degree in English Literature at the University of New Brunswick. Yasmin and Faruq had been living in a shared accomodation with a landlady since they had arrived. Rashed congratulates them on their moving to their own apartment, at 601 Beaverbrook St., apt. 4, bordering the University to the north-east. Yasmin Hassan describes this apartment as follows: <blockquote>601 Beaverbrook was our first apartment which had two small bedrooms, living room, kitchen and our own washroom.<a href="#fn1">[1]</a></blockquote>Yasmin Hassan's husband Faruq Hassan was himself a poet, and in 1967 he had published a volume of Urdu poetry entitled <a href="http://mcgill.worldcat.org/oclc/30578782">Chhoṭī baṛī nazmeñ (with Gilani Kamran; Lahore: Kitābiyāt)</a>. Rashed asks after Faruq Hassan with great fondness, referring to him as usual as ‘azīzī Fārūq. In 1969 Rashed's third daughter Shahin Sheikh had her son Omer, Rashed's first grandchild. The youngest sister from Rashed's first marriage, Tamzin, is also mentioned at the end of the letter. This was the year of the publication of Rashed's third collection of poetry, Lā = Insān. It was published by Munir Niazi's press Al-Misāl, who also reprinted Rashed's two previous collections, Māwarā and Īrān meñ ajnabī. These are the three books that Rashed orders for the Hassans from Niazi. <div><a href="#fref1">1</a> Yasmin Hassan, Email to Pasha M. Khan, June 26, 2015.</div> Article Author Pasha M. Khan Article Timestamp 2015-06-27 Article Citation Khan, Pasha M. "Letter from N. M. Rashed." Noon Meem Rashed Archive, Jun 27, 2015. URL https://archive.org/details/LetterFromN.M.RashedToYasminHassan Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Letter from N. M. Rashed Subject The topic of the resource Rāshid, N. M., -- 1910-1975 Description An account of the resource Letter from N. M. Rashed to Yasmin Hassan. Writing in top right corner notes the letter was sent from Tehran. Blue Ink on reverse says: "Replied June 23rd". Aerogramme is different in appearance from others in folder. The colour is yellow-green and "Pust-i hawā’ī-i Īrān" is titled across the reverse in small writing. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rashed, N. M. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to Canadian copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source. Our provision of reproductions does not constitute permission to publish or reproduce images in print or electronic form. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1969-05-07 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Pen on yellowish aerogramme Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NMRArch-02-18-001-letter-nmr-yh-aero Language A language of the resource Urdu Canada Chhoti bari nazmen family Faruq Hassan Fredericton handwritten Iftikhar Jalib Iran Iran men ajnabi Karachi La = insan letter Mawara Munir Niazi New Brunswick reception Shahin Sheikh Shahryar Rashed Tamzin Rashed Tehran University of New Brunswick Yasmin Hassan https://nmrashedarchive.com/files/original/b271c68dfb4e694422bb7eb4c5c685d2.jpg fa995ed05ed01f0eba88f72dde7ee2d5 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. No. of Files The number of files making up the digital item. 1 No. of Pages The number of pages in an item. 1 No. of Sheets The number of sheets in an item. 1 Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 8.5 x 11" Box The box in which the physical item is located. 2 Folder No. The number of the folder in which the physical item is located. 5 Folder Name The name of the physical folder in which the item is located. English translations of NMR poetry and letters to editors Item No. A unique number for an item within a folder. 3 Digitizer Name of the person who scanned or re-scanned the item. Zahra Sabri Cataloger Name of the person who cataloged the item. Pasha M. Khan Donor Name of the person who donated the item. Yasmin Rashed Hassan Year of Donation The year in which the item was donated. 2015 Repository Name of the institution in which the physical item resides Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Montreal Summary Rashed, N. M. Short Biographical Note on Mr. N. M. Rashed (copy 2). 1 p. 1 sheet. 8.5 x 11". Typewritten. Biographical note on N. M. Rashed listing positions and activities up to 1959. This copy marked "For Baji" (NMR's eldest daughter Nasrin Rashed) at top left by donor Yasmin Hassan. English. Box 2. Folder 5: English translations of NMR poetry and letters to editors. 003. Digitized by Zahra Sabri. Catalogued by Pasha M. Khan. Donated (2015) by Yasmin Rashed Hassan to the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Montreal. Article Several similar short biographies in English and Urdu are present in the NMR Archive. As our researcher Zahra Sabri notes, this version of the English biography is different from the version that Rashed sent to Carlo Coppola when the latter was preparing his interview with Rashed for his issue of the journal Mahfil. Apparently this version was written prior to the 1969 publication of Lā = Insān, as it is not mentioned. 1910 - Born in Akalgarh (now Alipur Chattha) in Gujranwala District of what is now Pakistan. 1926 - Matriculated from Government High School. 1928 - Passed Intermediate Exams from Government College, Lyallpur (now Faisalabad). 1930 - Bachelor's degree with Honours in Persian from Government College Lahore. 1932 - Master's degree in Economics from Government College Lahore. Began writing free verse in Urdu (the form with whose success he is associated). 1932-34 - Honorary editor of educational monthly Nakhlistān, Multan. 1935 - Editor of literary and educational magazine Shāhkār, Lahore. Became Assistant in Commissioner’s Office, Multan late in year. 1939 - Programme Assistant at All-India Radio. Later became Director of Programmes in Delhi. 1940 - Joined Halqa-i Arbāb-i Zauq, Delhi. 1942 - Published Māwarā. 1943-1947 - Captain, Indian Army Public Relations. Stationed in Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Palestine, Ceylon. 1947 May - Assistant Station Director, Lucknow. 1947 Aug. - Assistant Station Director, Peshawar and Lahore. 1949-1952 - Public Relations Officer, Station Director, Radio Pakistan. 1952 Oct. - Incharge of South East Asia Section of Radio and Visual Services Division in Office of Public Information, United Nations. 1956 - Director UN Information Centre, Djakarta. Published Īrān meñ ajnabī. 1958 - Deputy Director UN Information Centre, Karachi. 1959 - Director UN Information Centre, Karachi. Among his influences he lists: Aldous Huxley, Oscar Wilde, D. H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, Leo Tolstoy, James Joyce, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Stéphane Mallarmé, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Muhammad Deen Taseer (father of assassinated former governor of Pakistani Punjab Salman Taseer), Akhtar Sherani, and Chiragh Hassan Hasrat. This version is marked "for Baji" in black pen in Yasmin Hassan's handwriting at the top left. A copy of it was made and sent to Yasmin Hassan’s eldest sister, Nasrin Rashed, in Islamabad.<a href="#fn1">1</a> <div><a href="#fref1">1</a>Yasmin Hassan, Telephone conversation with Pasha M. Khan, June 17, 2015. </div> Article Author Pasha M. Khan Article Timestamp 2015-06-15 Article Citation Khan, Pasha M. "Short Biographical Note on Mr. N. M. Rashed (copy 2)." Noon Meem Rashed Archive, Jun 15, 2015. URL https://archive.org/details/NMRArch205003BioNoteNmrC2_201506 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Short Biographical Note on Mr. N. M. Rashed (copy 2) Subject The topic of the resource Rāshid, N. M., -- 1910-1975 Description An account of the resource Biographical note on N. M. Rashed listing positions and activities up to 1959. This copy marked "For Baji" (NMR's eldest daughter Nasrin Rashed) at top left by donor Yasmin Hassan. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rashed, N. M. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to Canadian copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source. Our provision of reproductions does not constitute permission to publish or reproduce images in print or electronic form. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Typewritten Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NMRArch-02-05-003-bio-note-nmr-c2 Language A language of the resource English https://nmrashedarchive.com/files/original/2c206d9d9e6237ee7d9f98ba5c9d7977.jpg 4d4a73b36ed92c88a98955fe750aaa20 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. No. of Files The number of files making up the digital item. 1 No. of Pages The number of pages in an item. 1 No. of Sheets The number of sheets in an item. 1 Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 8.5 x 11" Box The box in which the physical item is located. 2 Folder No. The number of the folder in which the physical item is located. 5 Folder Name The name of the physical folder in which the item is located. English translations of NMR poetry and letters to editors Item No. A unique number for an item within a folder. 2 Translator The translator of an item. Rashed, N. M. Mir, Mohammad Safdar Digitizer Name of the person who scanned or re-scanned the item. Zahra Sabri Cataloger Name of the person who cataloged the item. Pasha M. Khan Donor Name of the person who donated the item. Yasmin Rashed Hassan Year of Donation The year in which the item was donated. 2015 Repository Name of the institution in which the physical item resides Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Montreal Summary Rashed, N. M. The Marriage of Abu Lahab. Trans. Rashed, N. M.. 2 pp. 2 sheets. 8.5 x 11". Typewritten. Translation of N. M. Rashed's "Abū Lahab kī shādī". English. Box 2. Folder 5: English translations of NMR poetry and letters to editors. 001. Digitized by Zahra Sabri. Catalogued by Pasha M. Khan. Donated (2015) by Yasmin Rashed Hassan to the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Montreal. Article This is a typewritten copy, probably written on Rashed's typewriter, of the English translation that Safdar Mir and Rashed wrote of his poem "Izhār aur rasā’ī." The Urdu original of the first stanza shown above is as follows: <div class="urdu">— مو قلم، ساز، گلِ تازہ، تھرکتے پاؤں بات کہنے کے بہانے ہیں بہت آدمی کس سے مگر بات کرے؟ بات جب حیلۂ تقاریبِ ملاقات نہ ہو اور رسائی کی ہمیشہ سے ہے کوتاہ کمند بات کی غایتِ غایات نہ ہو!<a href="#fn1">1</a></div> Rashed sent a version of this translation to the poet Carolyn Kizer in 1966. In the accompanying letter (in the NMR Archive), he refers to it as "Safdar's rendering," indicating probably that Safdar Mir had first written a version that Rashed later corrected. He also notes in his letter that in that version Safdar Mir had left out one line, which Rashed provided for Kizer in red in the margin. In the present version there are no major omissions, though certain repeated lines have not been rendered. Kizer finally published a rendering of Rashed's poem—probably with the aid of Safdar Mir’s translation, which he had sent to her—in rhyming couplets, in her 1988 anthology Carrying Over. It begins: <blockquote>Paintbrush and lute-string or new modeling clay Are ways of saying what we want to say. But we, who once wrote of lovers coming together, How can we speak, now, of the whole world’s weather? What we would reach is always out of reach, The end of art is not the end of speech.<a href="#fn2">2</a></blockquote>Muhammad Safdar Mir (1922-1998) is now best known as a journalist who wrote for The Pakistan Times and Dawn, often using the pen-name "Zeno." He was also a poet, an actor, and a professor of English literature at Government College, Lahore. Two of his letters to Rashed have been preserved in our archive, as well as several newspaper articles by him on Rashed. Rashed recommended him to Kizer as an excellent translator, and a good poet and critic. Kizer did publish a rendering of one of Safdar Mir's poems, which she entitled "Elegy."<a href="#fn3">3</a> <div><a href="#fref1">1</a>Rashed, N. M. Lā = insān. 1st ed. Lahore: Al-Misāl, 1969. pp. 86-87. For a published version of this translation, see Noori, Fakhar ul-Haqq. Nūm Mīm Rāshid kī nazmeñ aur un kī Angrezī tarājim. Faisalabad: Misāl, 2013. pp. 262-263. <a href="#fref2">2</a>Kizer, Carolyn. Carrying Over: Poems from the Chinese, Urdu, Macedonian, Yiddish, and French African. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1988. p. 72. <a href="#fref3">3</a>Kizer, Carolyn. Carrying Over: Poems from the Chinese, Urdu, Macedonian, Yiddish, and French African. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1988. p. 73. </div> Article Author Pasha M. Khan Article Timestamp 2015-06-11 Article Citation Khan, Pasha M. "Expression and Reach." Noon Meem Rashed Archive, Jun 11, 2015. URL https://archive.org/details/NMRArch205ExpressionAndReachNmrTrans002_201506 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Expression and Reach Subject The topic of the resource Rāshid, N. M., -- 1910-1975 Rāshid, N. M., -- 1910-1975 -- Translations into English. Description An account of the resource Translation of N. M. Rashed's "Izhār aur rasā’ī". Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rashed, N. M. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to Canadian copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source. Our provision of reproductions does not constitute permission to publish or reproduce images in print or electronic form. 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No. of Files The number of files making up the digital item. 2 No. of Pages The number of pages in an item. 2 No. of Sheets The number of sheets in an item. 2 Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 8.5 x 11" Box The box in which the physical item is located. 2 Folder No. The number of the folder in which the physical item is located. 5 Folder Name The name of the physical folder in which the item is located. English translations of NMR poetry and letters to editors Item No. A unique number for an item within a folder. 1 Translator The translator of an item. Rashed, N. M. Digitizer Name of the person who scanned or re-scanned the item. Zahra Sabri Cataloger Name of the person who cataloged the item. Pasha M. Khan Donor Name of the person who donated the item. Yasmin Rashed Hassan Year of Donation The year in which the item was donated. 2015 Repository Name of the institution in which the physical item resides Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Montreal Summary Rashed, N. M. The Marriage of Abu Lahab. Trans. Rashed, N. M.. 2 pp. 2 sheets. 8.5 x 11". Typewritten. Translation of N. M. Rashed's "Abū Lahab kī shādī". English. Box 2. Folder 5: English translations of NMR poetry and letters to editors. 001. Digitized by Zahra Sabri. Catalogued by Pasha M. Khan. Donated (2015) by Yasmin Rashed Hassan to the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Montreal. Article This is a typewritten copy of Rashed's own English translation of his poem "Abū Lahab kī shādī." The Urdu original of the first stanza shown above is as follows: <div class="urdu">شبِ زفافِ ابو لہب تھی، مگر خدایا وہ کیسی شب تھی، ابو لہب کی دلہن جب آئی تو سر پہ ایندھن، گلے میں سانپوں کے ہار لائی، نہ اس کو مشاطّگی سے مطلب نہ مانگ غازہ، نہ رنگ روغن، گلے میں سانپوں کے ہار اس کے، تو سر پہ ایندھن! خدایا کیسی شب زفافِ ابو لہب تھی!<a href="#fn1">1</a></div> For an online version of the complete poem (with the option of reading in the Urdu, Hindi, or Roman script, and other useful tools), see <a href="https://rekhta.org/nazms/abuu-lahab-kii-shaadii-noon-meem-rashid-nazms?lang=Ur">"Abū Lahab kī shādī" on Rekhta.org</a>. The bride and groom will be familiar figures to many Muslims. Abu Lahab was an uncle of the Prophet who opposed Islam in its earliest years and tormented his nephew with various acts. His wife Umm Jamil was equally malicious; she is said to have cast thorns in Muhammad's path. Abu Lahab is the only individual explicitly cursed in the Qur'an. Arberry's translation of Sūrat al-Masad reads: Perish the hands of Abu Lahab, and perish he! His wealth avails him not, neither what he has earned; he shall roast at a flaming fire and his wife, the carrier of the firewood, upon her neck a rope of palm-fibre.<a href="#fn2">2</a> In Rashed's imagining of the wedding, something like the characteristics of Umm Jamil mentioned in the Qur'an are already present as she enters the scene as a bride. She carries firewood, and in place of a necklace she sports not palm-fibre but a mass of snakes. The prolific Rashed scholar Prof. Muhammad Fakhar ul-Haq Noori of Punjab University has written about Rashed’s translations of his own work in his essay "Rāshid kī nazmeñ, Rāshed ke tarājim" (in Mutāli‘ah-i Rāshid. Faisalabad: Misāl Publishers, 2010.), and in Nūn Mīm Rāshid kī nazmoñ ke angrezī tarājim. Faisalabad: Misāl Publishers, 2013. <div><a href="#fref1">1</a>Rashed, N. M. Lā = insān. 1st ed. Lahore: Al-Misāl, 1969. pp. 51-52. For a published version of this translation, see Noori, Fakhar ul-Haqq. ;Nūm Mīm Rāshid kī nazmeñ aur un kī Angrezī tarājim. Faisalabad: Misāl, 2013. pp. 215-216.<a href="#fref2">2</a>Arberry, A. J. The Koran Interpreted. London: Allen & Unwin, 1955. Ch. 111.</div> Article Author Pasha M. Khan Article Timestamp 2015-06-01 Article Citation Khan, Pasha M. "The Marriage of Abu Lahab." Noon Meem Rashed Archive, Jun 1, 2015. URL https://archive.org/details/NMRArchiveMarriageOfAbuLahabNMRTrans Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Marriage of Abu Lahab Subject The topic of the resource Rāshid, N. M., -- 1910-1975 Rāshid, N. M., -- 1910-1975 -- Translations into English. Description An account of the resource Translation of N. M. Rashed's "Abū Lahab kī shādī". Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rashed, N. M. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to Canadian copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source. Our provision of reproductions does not constitute permission to publish or reproduce images in print or electronic form. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Typewritten Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NMRArch-02-05-001-marriage-of-abu-lahab-nmr-trans Language A language of the resource English Abu Lahab ki shadi La = insan poetry Quran translation typewritten