Sharaab, Sufism and Shayari
Sharaab, Sufism and Shayari This picture sent to me by tweep @sairmir set me thinking about a subject that I had earlier read about extensively. Ghalib himself always confessed to his weakness for wine and mocked himself for it. More Sharing Services “Yeh Masail-e-Tasawwuf..Yeh tera bayaan Ghalib, Tujhe hum wali samajhte, jo na baadakhwaar hota” (These profound philosophies that you propound Ghalib We would have taken you for a saint if you weren’t a drunkard) Many uninitiated fans of Urdu/Sufi poetry feel that the poets were living in a drunken stupor and produced their best poetry under the influence of wine. Though many Urdu poets such as Ghalib were very fond of wine, their allusion to wine was also on another plane. Of course, nowadays wine is mostly used in the sense of alcohol itself. Sharaab in Urdu comes from the Arabic word Sharb , which simply means a drink and the word sherbet in Urdu and sorbet in English originates fro...