Taza Nawa’i Mu’arek

There is a popular saying attributed to Abdul Rahim of Girhori Sharif (1739-1778) a Sufi poet and Sindh’s Nostradamus predicting forever and always Sindhri (Sindh) you will be in danger from Qandhar.How true; history tells us that most of the invaders came through the north, the Arghuns, Tarkhans, Mughal and Afghans. Even in the 21st century we are suffering due to the turmoil in Kabul and Qandhar. Today it has changed the entire edifice and the whole region has been turned upside down by the winds from Qandhar, even otherwise northern winds bring cold and misery to this warm desert of Sindh

Taza Nawa’i Mu’arek – New song from the battlefields recorded by a Sindhi scribe, Munshi Ataullah Shikarpuri is a first hand account of the battles and events during the first half of the 19th Century in the region comprising present day Afghanistan and Pakistan. He calls it a wondrous tale with strange exposition and let the intellect pick the meanings and the true man a glass of wine. I feel he is warning us (to learn).

This Persian manuscript was edited by Abdul Hai Afghani and published by the Sindhi Adabi Board in 1959, its Sindhi translation was carried out by scholar poet Niaz Humayani in 1993 but could not be published until 2005.