1 10 66 https://nmrashedarchive.com/files/original/8cf2a1a5829c1a5e225e87079171f06e.jpg d1631ffc22faed419703e611813ceff4 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. 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 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. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Typewritten Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NMRArch-02-05-002-expression-and-reach-nmr-trans Language A language of the resource English Carolyn Kizer Government College Lahore Izhar aur rasa'i La = insan Mohammad Safdar Mir poetry translation typewritten 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/485afade26d6068f0bba0ef3147199e2.jpg 82a396898b23c3a53c6cb0de1fbed95a 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 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/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. 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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/86018a154fda03823ec9d7833e6f6515.jpg 2d4d083f8d2321fe316d68bee2e2551c 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. 3 No. of Pages The number of pages in an item. 3 No. of Sheets The number of sheets in an item. 3 Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 8.3 x 11.6" 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. 14 Folder Name The name of the physical folder in which the item is located. Gumān kā mumkin kā likhā hū’ā aslī likhā’ī Item No. A unique number for an item within a folder. 11 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. Ai samandar. Handwritten draft. 3 pp. 3 sheets. 8.3 x 11.6". Pencil on white paper. Handwritten draft of N. M. Rashed’s poem "Ai samandar". Pages numbered 28-30. Starting from the 2nd page, there is a difference in line breaks between draft and 1st edition, the lines "chānd kī tūtī hū’ī kashtī ke takhte/. kī bāhoñ par rawāñ" are shortened to "chānd kī tūtī hū’ī kashtī kī bāhoñ par rawāñ". Urdu. Box 2. Folder 14: Gumān kā mumkin kā likhā hū’ā aslī likhā’ī. 011. Digitized by Zahra Sabri. Catalogued by Zain Mian. Donated (2015) by Yasmin Rashed Hassan to the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Montreal. Article Rashed's poem "Ai samandar," an address to the sea, was published in his last, posthumous collection, Gumāñ kā mumkin, a complete draft of which exists in our Archive. Gumāñ kā mumkin, which Rashed in his lifetime simply called his "nayā majmū'ah" (new collection), was published through the agency of his friend the lawyer Ijaz Hussain Batalvi in 1976 from Nayā idārah press. Rashed made Batalvi meet with him in London in 1975, not long before his death. During this meeting, Rashed gave Batalvi a brown envelope containing the typescript of the book, with some corrections in his own hand.<a href="#fn1">[1]</a> But at least some of the poems that were published in Gumāñ kā mumkin had lives before their October 1976 publication. "Ai samandar" is one of these. The version that we have in the Archive was written by Rashed in pencil and is part of a nearly complete draft of the collection that would become Gumāñ kā mumkin. Rashed numbered the pages, although, as our researcher Zahra Sabri has noted, neither the numbering nor the order of the poems corresponds to the first edition of Gumāñ kā mumkin. In a number of subtle and not-so-subtle ways, the pencilled draft differs from the first edition.<a href="#fn2">[2]</a> To complicate matters further, another version was published in Shamsur Rahman Faruqi's literary journal Shabkhoon in September 1969. Faruqi had sent a letter to Rashed, preserved in the Archive, on May 22nd, 1968, soliciting his poetry for the relatively new Shabkhoon, and "Ai samandar" seems to have been the first poem that Rashed sent to have published in Faruqi's journal. These poems were given pride of place by Faruqi, and published in the opening pages of the issue. The Shabkhoon version differs significantly from the Gumāñ kā mumkin version, particularly in its very different layout, its punctuation, and orthography. In these ways it is also different from the pencil draft. But the Shabkhoon version shares many passages with this draft which are not present in the first edition of Gumāñ kā mumkin. This would appear to indicate that the pencil draft at McGill was written after 1969, but probably before Rashed handed his typewritten proofs to Batalvi in 1975. Rashed marked stanza breaks in the drafts by drawing a short line in the spaces between the bodies of texts to be separated. The number and order of the stanzas changed from version to version. The fifth stanza in this version contains some particular differences compared to the first edition. The reconstructed second line seems to have been "dekh lekin abr ke aurāq-i kuhnah" ("But look: The cloud's ancient folios…"). But the opening "dekh lekin" is struck out, and in its place Rashed has pencilled in "āj kyonkar." If Rashed at any point meant these words to be part of the stanza, they would have linked it more strongly to the preceding stanza. Oddly, however, "dekh lekin" is neither part of the Gumāñ kā mumkin version nor the Shabkhoon version of "Ai samandar," making it appear to be either a false start or a reconsidered experiment unique to this draft. Like the Gumāñ kā mumkin version, the fifth stanza continues "āj kyonkar abr ke aurāq-i kuhnah / bāzū-i derīnah-i ummīd par / dūr se lā'e nirālī dāstāñ [...]". However, in the fourth line Rashed has originally written "dūr se lā'e haiñ kaisī dāstāñ," only to strike out "haiñ" and insert "nirālī." This line both begins and ends with a long-short-long syllabic pattern (dūr se and dāstāñ), well-balanced with intervening syllables. Rashed seems to have preferred the assonance of "nirālī" and "dāstāñ" (both bearing the vowel ā), but to fit "nirālī" in he had to excise haiñ, which would have unbalanced the metre. In the Shabkhoon version we find that the line was still "dūr se lā'e haiñ kaisī dāstāñ." The next two lines, describing the broken ship of the moon afloat in the flooding night, are not found in the Gumāñ kā mumkin version: "chānd kī tūtī hū'ī kashtī ke takhte / shab kī tughyānī kī bāhoñ par rawāñ […]." Why these evocative lines were finally removed is a mystery. Rashed seems to have been conservative in matters of spelling. He spelled the verb guzarnā with a zāl, reflecting its etymology, instead of increasingly current guzarnā with a ze. Similarly, in spite of living so long in Iran and reading and publishing so much modern Iranian poetry, he spells ā'indah with a hamzah, instead of āyandah with a ye. Faruqi appears to have agreed with him, as he left these spellings undisturbed in Shabkhoon, but in Gumāñ kā mumkin they have been changed. Below is the poem as represented by the N. M. Rashed Archive draft in pencil, followed by a list of modifications occuring between the draft and the first edition of Gumāñ kā mumkin. While the changes in line breaks and punctuation may appear to be minor, it may be that Rashed saw them as altering the sound of the poem when recited. <div class="urdu">اے سمندر اے سمندر، پیکرِ شب، جسم، آوازیں رگوں میں دوڑتا پھرتا لہو پتّھروں پر سے گذرتے رقص کی خاطر اذاں دیتے گئے، اورمیں، مرتے درختوں میں نہاں، سُنتا رہا۔۔۔۔ اِن درختوں میں، مرااک ہاتھ عہدِ رفتہ کے سینے پہ ہے دوسرا، اک شہرِ آئندہ میں ہے جویائے راہ۔۔۔۔ شہر، جس میں آرزو کی مَے انڈیلی جائے گی زندگی سے رنگ کھیلا جائے گا! اے سمندر، آنے والے دن کو یہ تشویش ہے رات کا کابوس جو دن کے نکلتے ہی ہوا ہو جائے گا کون دے گا اس کے ژولیدہ سوالوں کاجواب؟ کس کِرن کی نوک؟ کن پھولوں کا خواب؟ اے سمندر، میں گنوں گا دانہ دانہ تیرے آنسو جن میں اِک زخّار بے ہستی کا شور! اے سمندر، میں گِنوں گا دانہ دانہ تیرے آنسو جن میں آنے والا جشنِ وصل نا آسودہ ہے جن میں فردائے عروسی کے لئے کرنوں کے ہار شہرِ آئندہ کی روحِ بے زماں چُنتی رہی۔۔۔۔ میں ہی دوں گا جشن میں دعوت تجھے استراحت تیری لہروں کے سوا کس شے میں ہے؟ رات اِس ساحل پہ غرّاتے رہے، غم زدہ لمحات کے ترسے ہوئے کتّوں کی نظریں چاند پرپڑتی رہیں اُن کی عَو عَو چاند دورتک لپکی رہی! اے سمندر، <strike>دیکھ لیکن</strike> آج کیونکر ابر کے اوراقِ کہنہ بازوئے دیرینۂ اُمید پر اڑتے ہوئے دورسے لائے <strike>ہیں کیسی</strike> نرالی داستاں! چاند کی ٹوٹی ہوئی کشتی کے تختے شب کی طغیانی کی باہوں پر رواں! شہرِآئندہ کے دست وپا کے رنگ ۔۔۔ جیسے جاں دینے پہ سب آمادہ ہوں ۔۔۔ دست و پا میں جاگ اٹھے راگ کے مانند، میں بھی دست و پا میں جاگ اٹھا! اے سمندر، کل کے جشنِ نو کی موج شہرِ آئندہ کی بینائی کی حدتک آ گئی اب گھروں سے ۔۔۔ جن میں راندہ روز و شب کی چاردیواری نہیں، مرد و زن نکلیں گے، ہاتھوں میں اٹھائے برگ و بار جن کو چھو لینے سے لوٹ آئے گی روگرداں بہار! اے سمندر۔۔۔۔۔۔</div> Stanza 1: Line 3 indented in 1st ed. Line 5 guzarte spelled with ze in 1st ed. Line 5 final comma omitted in 1st ed. Line 7 pesh on suntā omitted in 1st ed. Line 8 comma omitted in 1st ed. Line 11 ā’indah spelled āyandah in 1st ed. Stanza 2: Line 7 zer omitted from kiran in 1st ed. Stanza 3: Line 6 zer omitted from ginūñgā in 1st ed. Line 8 li’e spelled liye in 1st ed. Line 10 ā’indah spelled āyandah in 1st ed. Line 11 pesh omitted from chuntī in 1st ed. Stanza 4: Lines 3 and 4 combined in 1st ed. Stanza 5: Lines 3 and 4 combined in 1st ed. Lines 6 and 7 replaced with a new line in 1st ed. Line 8 ā’indah spelled āyandah in 1st ed. Stanza 6: Line 3 ā’indah spelled āyandah in 1st ed. Line 7 final comma omitted in 1st ed. Lines 8 and 9 combined in 1st ed. Lines 10 and 11 combined in 1st ed. <div><a href="#fref1">1</a> Batālwī, I‘jāz Husain. "Ākhirī majmū‘ah, ākhirī mulāqāt." in Rāshid, N. M. Gumāñ kā mumkin. Lahore: Nayā idārah, 1976. p. ix. Batalvi does not mention the date of the meeting, but says that Rashed was living in Cheltenham after leaving the apartment he was renting in Chelsea, London. On the basis of the letters of congratulation in the Rashed Archive (box 1, folder 17), Rashed had retired in 1973. His addresses on his letters to his daughter Yasmin Hassan show that in January of 1975 he was living in Chelsea, but by the beginning of February 1975 he had moved to Cheltenham. Since Rashed passed away in October of the same year, he must have given the draft to Batalvi between February and October 1975. <a href="#fref2">2</a> The final version of the poem is in Rāshid, N. M. Gumāñ kā mumkin. Lahore: Nayā idārah, 1976. pp. 46-49.</div> Article Author Pasha M. Khan Article Timestamp 2015-08-24 Article Citation Khan, Pasha M. "Ai samandar. Handwritten draft." Noon Meem Rashed Archive, Aug 24, 2015. URL https://archive.org/details/AiSamandarHandwrittenProof 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 Ai samandar. Handwritten draft Subject The topic of the resource Rāshid, N. M., -- 1910-1975 Description An account of the resource Handwritten draft of N. M. Rashed’s poem "Ai samandar". Pages numbered 28-30. Starting from the 2nd page, there is a difference in line breaks between draft and 1st edition, the lines "chānd kī tūtī hū’ī kashtī ke takhte/. kī bāhoñ par rawāñ" are shortened to "chānd kī tūtī hū’ī kashtī kī bāhoñ par rawāñ". Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Relation A related resource IsRelatedTo NMRArch-2-14-029-guman-ka-mumkin-drafts Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rashed, N. M. 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Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Pencil on white paper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NMRArch-02-14-011-ai-samandar-handwritten Language A language of the resource Urdu Ai samandar Guman ka mumkin handwritten Ijaz Hussain Batalvi London Naya idarah orthography pencil poetry publication history Shabkhoon Shamsur Rahman Faruqi https://nmrashedarchive.com/files/original/c0cb81f3d10f0f8fef197701c347c2ea.jpg bc525abe4dd1b641280e7d47257f8615 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 6.5 x 7.7" Box The box in which the physical item is located. 1 Folder No. The number of the folder in which the physical item is located. 14 Folder Name The name of the physical folder in which the item is located. College certificates and recommendation letter Item No. A unique number for an item within a folder. 1 Digitizer Name of the person who scanned or re-scanned the item. Zain Mian 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 Singh, Tara. College recommendation letter from Tara Singh. Sep. 5, 1928. 1 p. 1 sheet. 6.5 x 7.7". Typewritten on brown paper. College recommendation letter for N. M. Rashed, written by Tara Singh, principal of Government Intermediate College, Lyallpur, in year of Rashed’s graduation. English. Box 1. Folder 14: College certificates and recommendation letter. 001. Digitized by Zain Mian. Catalogued by Pasha M. Khan. Donated (2015) by Yasmin Rashed Hassan to the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Montreal. Article From 1926 to 1928, Nazr-i Mohammad Rashed matriculated from the Government High School in Akalgarh, and passed his Faculty of Arts examination at Government Intermediate College (now Government College University) in Lyallpur (now known as Faisalabad). The principal of the college, Sardar Tara Singh, appears to have written this as a letter of recommendation for the young Rashed (who would have been 18 years old when this document was written). The college had evolved out of a high school in 1924. Akalgarh (modern Alipur Chattha), where Rashed had been born, had no college. Rashed was a "non-resident student" because his father Raja Fazl-i Elahi Chishti was posted to Lyallpur as Additional District Inspector of Schools from September 8, 1926 to September 27, 1928. Therefore he was able to live at home with his family while completing his education at the college.<a href="#fn1">[1]</a> <a href="http://gcuf.edu.pk/about/history-and-introduction/college-era/">According to the modern GCU Faisalabad's account</a>, Sardar Tara Singh was the third and then the fifth principal of Government Intermediate College Lyallpur from April 11, 1927 to January 8, 1928, and again from October 2, 1928 to December 7, 1928. From the letter it appears either that this account is mistaken, or that Tara Singh depended upon his former or anticipated status to subscribe himself "Principal." In the interim Rai Bahadur Manmohan was principal at the college.<a href="#fn2">[2]</a> As other items in the NMR Archive will show, the city of Lyallpur remained important to Rashed throughout his life, particularly since his sister Mumtaz and brother-in-law Chiragh Hassan, headmaster of M.B. High School, were resident there, as well as their sons Faruq and Aftab. <a href="#fref1">1</a> Khalid, Anwar Mahmūd. "N. M. Rāshid, Lā’ilpūr meñ." Draft paper in Noon Meem Rashed Archive, p. 2. <a href="#fref2">2</a> "College Era ; GCUF." http://gcuf.edu.pk/about/history-and-introduction/college-era/. Article Author Pasha M. Khan Article Timestamp 2015-07-29 Article Citation Khan, Pasha M. "College recommendation letter from Tara Singh." Noon Meem Rashed Archive, Jul 29, 2015. URL https://archive.org/details/CollegeRecommendationLetterFromTaraSingh 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 College recommendation letter from Tara Singh Subject The topic of the resource Rāshid, N. M., -- 1910-1975 Description An account of the resource College recommendation letter for N. M. Rashed, written by Tara Singh, principal of Government Intermediate College, Lyallpur, in year of Rashed’s graduation. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Relation A related resource IsRelatedTo NMRArch-2-14-029-guman-ka-mumkin-drafts Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Singh, Tara 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. 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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 Babree, Laeeq. Letter from Laeeq Babree. To Rashed, N. M. Feb. 28, 1970. 2 pp. 1 sheet. 8 x 10". Blue ballpoint pen on white paper. Letter from Laeeq Babree to N. M. Rashed. Letterhead: "Dr. Laeeq Babree, Department of French, Government College, Lahore". On top of first page the date 6/3/71 is written. Urdu. Box 2. Folder 3: Correspondence. 012. Digitized by Zahra Sabri. Catalogued by Zain Mian. Donated (2015) by Yasmin Rashed Hassan to the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Montreal. Article The modernist Punjabi poet Laeeq Ahmad Babree (1931-2003) is one of the most interesting lesser-known figures represented in the Archive. Babree was well-acquainted with the works of French modernists, and particularly with Baudelaire, whose Spleen de Paris he had translated by 1982 (as Paris kā karb). Babree had completed his Doctorate in French Literature at the University of Paris in 1968. After returning to Lahore, he became a professor of French at Punjab University. His correspondence with Rashed as preserved in the Archive begins in 1969. This letter to Rashed, written on February 28, 1971, appears to have been received by Rashed on March 6, 1971. In it Babree mentions the appointment of the psychologist Makhdum Muhammad Ajmal (1919-1994) as principal of Government College, and Ajmal's willingness to invite Rashed and Faiz Ahmad Faiz to an event at G. C. in March. He is in contact with Munir Niazi, who had published Rashed's Lā=Insān in 1969; as well as with Rashed's correspondent the Urdu poet Qayyum Nazar, who was the first professor of Punjabi at Punjab University. Rashed's and Babree's shared love of French modernism made for a warm correspondence, and Babree was able to use his academic position to give the admired modernist pioneer a forum to speak at Government College, which was then in its heyday. An abstract of the letter: <blockquote>Babree has received the programme of Rashed's upcoming trip to Pakistan. The principal at Government College is Muhammad Ajmal, formerly head of the Psychology Department, for whom Babree has words of praise. Babree has suggested to Ajmal that when Rashed comes in March they should invite him to Government College. Ajmal immediately agreed, and suggested that he should be invited for March 25th. Dinner would be given by Government College and Faiz Ahmed Faiz would also be invited. Ajmal must leave Lahore for a science conference around the 28th or 29th of March. Babree meets with Munir Niazi regularly. Two or three days ago there was a Punjabi majlis chaired by Munir Niazi. Babree believes that Punjabi is slowly being recognized as a language of the shurafā. Seven or eight years ago when he wrote his first Punjabi poetry, he was mocked. Now Punjabi has been established as a subject at Punjab University, with Qayyum Nazar teaching. Beginning tomorrow, Punjabi news will be broadcast over the Lahore-Rawalpindi-Multan national hookup radio. When Babree had sent Rashed his Punjabi poem "Pinghoṛe", Rashed had asked him about the word "tuhoṛ," which Babree will explain when they meet. He is sending a copy of his Punjabi poem "Gāhaṛ." His Punjabi collection Ghugghū ghoṛe is about to be printed (1971). There is an inside joke in the title. Qayyum Nazar has also received Rashed's letter. He no longer works for Pakistan Council; he now works for the Textbook Board.</blockquote> The collection of Punjabi poetry to which Babree refers, Ghugghū ghoṛe (Clay Horses), would be published a few months later on June 10, 1971 by the Majlis Shah Husain in Lahore. This book, which is rare in the West (<a href="http://mcgill.worldcat.org/oclc/499667398">the only holding appearing in Worldcat is in the British Library</a>), had a print run of 500 copies and sold for Rs. 300. Babree writes that the title of this collection, "Clay Horses," involved a hidden satire. A blurb pasted into the book suggests to us that the short symbolist poems it contained are each like small playthings. The symbol of the ghugghū ghoṛā or clay horse plays with the relation between silence, noise, and speech. "Ghugghū" alone means a hollow clay toy which makes a noise when blown into. But when referring to a person "ghugghū" indicates they are dumb or stupid. Thirdly there is the ghugghū ghoṛā, a mute, knobbly plaything of clay. A blurb pasted into Babree's book suggests the relationship between the title and the book: The short symbolist poems are the clay horses themselves. "Ghugghū ghoṛā" is therefore a description of Babree's poetry. How so? Supposedly poetry tries to communicate something to its audience. But Babree's poetry, in keeping with symbolist precepts, presents the reader with its mute texture and its sound, attempting to withhold the kernel of Meaning. Babree knew the symbolist movement well. Apart from his thorough familiarity with Baudelaire, another evidence of this is his participation in the Société de Symbolisme's May 1966 conference in Paris on "Symbolism and Language." We thank Babree's wife, Khalida L. Babree, for her kindness in providing us with a copy of Ghugghū ghoṛe, which has been deposited in the <a href="https://www.mcgill.ca/library/branches/islamic">Islamic Studies Library at McGill</a>, along with other materials to aid our research on Laeeq Babree, his literary work and his relation to Rashed. Article Author Pasha M. Khan Article Timestamp 2016-02-26 Article Citation Khan, Pasha M. "Letter from Laeeq Babree." Noon Meem Rashed Archive, Feb 26, 2016. URL https://archive.org/details/LetterFromLaeeqBabree_201602 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 Laeeq Babree Description An account of the resource Letter from Laeeq Babree to N. M. Rashed. Letterhead: "Dr. Laeeq Babree, Department of French, Government College, Lahore". On top of first page the date 6/3/71 is written. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Babree, Laeeq 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. 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Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1970-02-28 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Blue ballpoint pen on white paper Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NMRArch-02-03-012-letter-laeeq-babree Language A language of the resource Urdu Charles Baudelaire Faiz Ahmad Faiz French language & literature Gahlar Ghuggu ghore Government College Lahore handwritten Khalida Laeeq Babree Laeeq Ahmad Babree Lahore letter Majlis Shah Husain Makhdum Muhammad Ajmal modernism Paris Pinghore Punjab University Punjabi language & literature Qayyum Nazar radio silence Société de Symbolisme Sorbonne symbolism Université de Paris https://nmrashedarchive.com/files/original/30ebec8c03376dd64ffcc00cedcd1728.jpg 33aa3abb23ee36465adbf086d8e5e3b5 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. 2 Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image 8 x 13" 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. 2 Folder Name The name of the physical folder in which the item is located. Articles written on NMR in various newspapers and magazines (clippings), English, and Urdu 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. 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 Mir, Mohammad Safdar. Rashed's Satiric Verse. May. 29, 1969. 2 pp. 2 sheets. 8 x 13". Newsprint. Review of N. M. Rashed's Īrān meñ ajnabī. Appeared in The Pakistan Times. English. Box 2. Folder 2: Articles written on NMR in various newspapers and magazines (clippings), English, and Urdu. 002. 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 1969, Mohammad Safdar Mir (1922-1998) reviewed N.M. Rashed's Lā=Insān. Mir was a journalist, poet, and playwright, most famous for his work with The Pakistan Times, where he authored a weekly column under the name "Zeno." Mir worked for the Times from 1961-1977, before which he was a professor of English Literature at Government College, Lahore. He would later go on to write for The Muslim, MAG, and Dawn, before his eventual passing in 1998. Lā=Insān is Rashed's third collection of poetry. It was published by Munir Niazi's Al-Misāl Press in 1969. The publication of Lā=Insān formed a pivotal moment in Rashed's career. Following the lukewarm reception of Irān meñ ajnabī, Rashed was weary of being written off as a marhūm (dead) poet. Thankfully, his concerns were eased as Lā=Insān raised a storm in Pakistani literary circles ("Pākistān ke adabī halaqoñ meñ khāsī halchal machā dī hai!").<a href="#fn1">1</a> Rashed exclaims as much in a letter to his daughter Yasmin Hassan, which we review<a href="CLEAN_URL"> here</a>. Mir's review was one of many positive ones for Lā=Insān. A summary follows: <blockquote>Mir highlights the immense impact Rashed's Māwarā had on the sensibility of his contemporaries. He compares Rashed to Faiz and Miraji, and proclaims them the "holy trinity" of a new movement in Urdu literature. Mir notes that while Faiz's poetry remained traditional in its technique and Miraji's in its metaphoric structure, Rashed revolutionized both technique and allusive structure in his work. Mir admires Rashed's trenchant critique of colonialism. He notes that Rashed has expanded his political landscape to include "the entire Afro-Asian colonial reality." For Mir, it is Rashed's commitment to clearly-defined values that makes his work great. Mir notes that Rashed is committed to the notion of "cosmopolitanism" as opposed to that of "internationalism." He champions the inclusive humanity inherent in Rashed's work, and finds that Rashed's intensity has grown and his sensibility has mellowed. Mir notes that the introduction to Rashed's book takes the form of an interview he conducted with students of Urdu in the U.S. He mentions that while certain poems in the collection have appeared previously, most of the material is new and unpublished. It exhibits a "philosophical" mood and a "materialistic mysticism" that is in keeping with Rashed's style. He likens Rashed's desire "to see life in its totality" to that shared by Ibn al-‘Arabi and Rumi. Furthermore, he feels that Rashed's book will leave a lasting impression on the new movement in Urdu poetry, even as it does not retain the pure shock value inherent in Māwarā.</blockquote>This review was one of three Mir wrote in summer of that year. The others focused on Rashed's first two books, Māwarā and ;Irān meñ ajnabī, which had just been reprinted by Al-Misāl alongside the first edition of Lā=Insān. Indeed, it is possible that Munir Niazi himself requested Mir to review the Al-Misāl editions of Rashed's work. This seems somewhat more likely given the lavish praise Mir heaps on Niazi in his review of Māwarā. Not only does Mir write that Niazi should be "congratulated for making a bold venture in book production" but also that his edition of Māwarā makes the first look "almost pedestrian."<a href="#fn2">2</a> Niazi also attached Mir's review of Lā=Insān to one of his letters to Rashed, telling the poet not to worry about the kharīd o farokht (buying and selling) of his book.<a href="#fn3">3</a> These reviews were not the only times Mir wrote on Rashed. Mir was a prolific writer and given his inclinations as a poet, it is not surprising that we have extensive writings by him both on Urdu literature and on Rashed. The archive holds, for example, a copy of Mir's review of Rashed's appearance at the Halqā-i-Arbāb-i-Zauq, as well another describing the ceremony at the Pakistan Council on the 24th of May 1969, where Rashed's Lā=Insān was introduced. <a href="#fn4">4</a> <a href="#fn5">5</a> Plentiful evidence also suggests that Mir held a good working relationship with Rashed, and that the poet appreciated his work. Rashed and Mir collaborated on several translations together, an example of which is reviewed <a href="CLEAN_URL">here</a>. Furthermore, Rashed also forwarded some of Mir's reviews to the American poet Carolyn Kizer, recognising that Mir's reaction to the "new generation" of poets was worth noting. <a href="#fn6">6</a> Indeed, Rashed's recognition of Mir went so far that, in 1970, Rashed requested permission to translate some of his reviews in Urdu. To this Mir replied that it was "a matter of great honour" (‘izzat-afzā'i) that Rashed had requested his work. For him, there was no need for Rashed to have asked. That the poet did so in any case, spoke only to his own magnanimity and fairness.<a href="#fn7">7</a> <div><a href="#fref1">1 </a>Letter from N.M. Rashed to Yasmin Hassan, May 7th, 1969. Letter in Noon Meem Rashed Archive. <a href="#fref2">2 </a>Mir, Safdar. "Rediscovering Rashed's Mavara." The Pakistan Times. April 20th, 1969. Review in Noon Meem Rashed Archive. <a href="#fref3">3 </a>Letter from Munir Niazi to N.M. Rashed, April 10th, 1969. Letter in Noon Meem Rashed Archive. <a href="#fref4">4 </a>Mir, Safdar. ""N.M. Rashed and New Generation Politics."" The Pakistan Times. Undated. Review in Noon Meem Rashed Archive. <a href="#fref5">5 </a>Mir, Safdar. "Return of N.M. Rashed: Poor Girls." The Pakistan Times. May 24th, 1969. Review in Noon Meem Rashed Archive. <a href="#fref6">6 </a>Letter from N.M. Rashed to Carolyn Kizer. Letter in Noon Meem Rashed Archive <a href="#fref7">7 </a>Letter from Safdar Mir to N.M. Rashed, September 1st, 1970. Letter in Noon Meem Rashed Archive.</div> Article Author Zain Mian Article Timestamp 10/6/2015 Article Citation Mian, Zain. "N. M. Rashed's New Work." Noon Meem Rashed Archive, Oct 6, 2015. URL https://archive.org/details/N.M.RashedsNewWork 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 N. M. Rashed's New Work Description An account of the resource Review of N. M. Rashed's Lā=Insān. Appeared in The Pakistan Times. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Relation A related resource IsRelatedTo NMRArch-2-08-014-letter-niazi-nmr Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mir, Mohammad Safdar 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 1969-04-06 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Xerox Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NMRArch-02-02-003-mir-insan-review Language A language of the resource English Al-Misal Carolyn Kizer Faiz Ahmad Faiz Government College Lahore Halqah-i Arbab-i zauq Iran men ajnabi Jalaluddin Rumi La = insan Mawara Mohammad Safdar Mir Muhyiuddin Ibn 'Arabi Munir Niazi Pakistan Times publication history review Sanaullah Dar Miraji