Khwaja Mir Dard

Khwaja Mir Dard (1720-1785) (Urdu: خواجہ میر درد) was a poet of the Delhi School. He was a Sufi saint of the Naqshbandi-Mujaddadi religious order.

Khwaja Mir Dard
Native name
خواجہ میر درد
BornSyed Khwaja
1720
Delhi, Mughal Empire
Died1785 (64-65)
Occupationpoet
LanguageUrdu
Genrenafsi, lafzi
Notable worksChahaar Risaala, Ilm-ul Kitaab

Poetry

Dard's couplet on this illusory life, from 'Ilm-ul-Kitab':[1]

دوستو، دیکها تماشا یہاں کا بس
تُم رہو خوش ہم تو اپنے گھر چلے ۔

My friends, we have seen enough of this play.
We are going home, you can stay.

—Dard

References

  1. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.440328 Khwaja Humair Dard, Ilm Ul Kitab (in Urdu), p. 476
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