#HEER BY WARIS SHAH IN PUNJABI PDF PLUS#
The value of these twenty plus volumes, in excellent print by Ferozsons Publishers, is beyond measure. Being an English poet par excellence whose four books of English verse have already been published, he was perfectly equipped to do it. These books, written in classical English, include translations of the original verse by Ghaffar, and detailed meanings and notes that explicate the poetry. These include Baba Fareed Ganjshakar, Shah Hussain (3 Volumes), Baba Nanak, Sultan Bahu, Bulleh Shah (2 Volumes), Heer Damodhar (4 Volumes), and now this tome among tomes Heer Waris Shah in six volumes.
#HEER BY WARIS SHAH IN PUNJABI PDF SERIES#
Here we turn to Ghaffar’s enormous contribution - his writings in his magnum opus ‘Within Reach’ series on the classics of Punjabi literature. These and other Lahore Arts Forum programmes under Muzaffar Ghaffar hold tremendous import in the cultural life of Lahore and deserve a separate mention. Ghaffar simultaneously initiated the Lahore Arts Forum (Leaf) where this rich reading of Punjabi literature was brought to the public domain in programmes held at Alhamra Cultural Complex Qaddafi Stadium and at Model Town Library for almost twenty years. But he was a uniquely keen and committed student, who used to take copious notes and could recall what had been discussed ten or fifteen years back. Muzaffar Ghaffar has remained my fellow student here for over twenty years. I have learnt whatever I know of Punjabi literature in this class. Najm Hosain Syed, Punjabi literature’s guru, took it upon himself to teach all these classics in a Sangat (Study group), in what is a regular weekly reading session for the past more than forty years. These classics fared no better in their near disappearance from the once-rich folk poetry repertoire of every Punjabi speaker.
Heer Waris Shah remains the premier classic of Punjabi literature along with Baba Farid’s dohras, Heer of Damodhar, Guru Baba Nanak’s gurbani in the Sikh holy book Granth Sahib, poetry of Shah Hussain, Bulleh Shah, Sachal, Sultan Bahu, Mirza Sahiban of Hafiz Barkhurdar, Puran Bhagat of Qadiryar, Sassi and Shirin Farhad of Hashim Shah, Sohni and Saiful Maluk of Mian Mohammad Baksh and Dastaan Ameer Hamza of Maulvi Ghulam Rasul.
The last one, comprising mostly of old men over seventy, was closed after the fencing of Hazuri Bagh in the early 1980s. Heer singing groups, of which there were dozens in Lahore city alone, gradually faded. The replacement of this original singing format by gramophone, radio and transistor literally killed that part of our folk music. Singing Heer was an all-night affair that the villagers undertook in their leisurely time after the sowing of the wheat crop. If you asked "Does anybody read The Book", it meant if anybody could sing the verses of Heer. If you asked somebody "Do you have The Book?" it meant whether they had a copy of Waris Shah’s epic tale Heer. Seventy years ago, Heer Waris Shah was "The Book" in the villages of Punjab.
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