Aye Jazba-e-Dil
Aye Jazba-e-Dil gar main chahoon ऐ जज़्बा-ए-दिल गर मैं चाहूँ There was something soulful about this ghazal when it first reached my ears. Perhaps the way the singer had rendered it. Her voice. The hint of pain and longing in that voice. It wasn’t the words because I could hardly understand them in that first hearing. I didn’t even know the singer. I had never heard her voice before or even her name or seen her face. This was my first introduction to Nayyara Noor. I learned much later that she was born post partition in Guwahati in Assam,India but spent most of her life in Pakistan and died in Karachi in 2022 at the age of 71.When I heard her she was already gone. Her voice still carries that soulfulness that I perceived in the first time. Deep, beautiful and calling for the mind to drown in it. Essentially making you experience samadhi. It was later that I ventured to understand the lyrics. And they are equally beautiful as the vocal rendition. Incidentally the poet, ...