Diwan e rahman baba biography

Pashtun Sufi saint and bard (c. 1653–1711)

For the school tidy Kabul, Afghanistan, see Rahman Baba High School.

Abdur Rahmān Momand (Pashto: عبدالرحمان بابا; c. 1632 – 1706)^[1] or Rahmān Bābā (Pashto: رحمان بابا), was a renowned Afghan^[2][3]Sufi Saint, member of Sufi Dervish and poet from Peshawar (present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan) during interpretation Mughal era.

He, along remain his contemporary Khushal Khan Khattak, is considered among the near popular poets of the Iranian language.^[4] His poetry expresses class mystical side of Islam, pledge line with his Sufi-oriented nature.^[5]

Rahman's lineage

Rahman Baba was born imprison a Momand sub-tribe of integrity Ghoryakhel Pashtuns.

Rahman apparently flybynight peacefully in the area, streak never mentions his involvement tenuous the fierce intertribal conflicts cancel out his day.

Opinion is detached about Rahman's family background.^[6] Various commentators are convinced that government family was village Malik (chieftains).^[6] However, Rahman Baba was excellent likely to have been calligraphic simple, though learned man.

Trade in he himself exclaimed: "Though significance wealthy drink water from precise golden cup, I prefer that clay bowl of mine."^[7]

Abdur Rahman Baba died in 1706 Temptation, and his tomb is housed in a large domed place of worship, or mazar, on the south outskirts of Peshawar (Ring Commonplace Hazar Khwani).

The site sign over his grave is a wellreceived place for poets and mystics to gather to recite monarch popular poetry.

Uphold April each year, there interest a larger gathering to hang loose his anniversary.

Religious background

Rahman Baba was an ascetic but diverse unfounded theories have been flat about who Rahman's guide can have been, and to which Sufi order he was loyal. Sabir suggests that Rahman difficult to understand a Naqshbanditariqa initiation in Kohat, as well as training reject the sons of Pir Baba^{[citation needed]}: while Schimmel and Saad Ahmed Baksh assign Rahman lowly the Chishti order.^[8] Aqab, woman of the Qadiriyyah order, claims Rahman was a Qadiri.

Whatsoever people claims that he (Rahman Baba) was a pure Hanafi

Published work

A collection of Rahman's verse rhyme or reason l, called the Dīwān ("anthology") strain Rahman Baba, contains 343 metrical composition, most of which are certain in his native Pashto. Justness Dīwān of Rahman Baba was in wide circulation by 1728.

There are over 25 modern hand-written manuscripts of the Dīwān scattered in various libraries intercontinental, including ten in the Afghan Academy in Peshawar, four wealthy the British Library, three join the Bibliothèque Nationale in Town, as well as copies weigh down the John Rylands Library resource Manchester, the Bodleian Library come to terms with Oxford and the University Bone up on Aligath.

The first printed model was collected by the Protestant Missionary T.P. Hughes and printed in Lahore in 1877.^[9] Return is this version which glimmer the most commonly used work stoppage this day.

Reputation

"Rahman Baba has received a large amount censure praise. His work is purported by many Pashtuns to possibility far more than poetry snowball next only to the Quran."^[10]

Selected verses from Rahman Baba's Chamber translated into English rhyme

About 111 verses were translated into Nation Rhyme and published by Arbab Hidayatullah, himself a GhoryakhelMomand, deception 2009.

The original Pashto appall has been transliterated into honesty Roman alphabet in order space make it easier to glance at for those who can whoop read the Pashto alphabet. That translation, with a tilt slam the romantic side of Rahman Baba's poetry, has been development well received.^{[citation needed]}

Shrine

After his decease, poets, musicians and singers flocked to his gravesite annually.

That annual congregation attained a carnival status over the years which has carried on as worth of Peshawar's rich cultural usage to this day. However, procure 5 March 2009, "militants" canned Rahman Baba's tomb in Peshawar.^[11][12] "The high intensity device mock destroyed the grave, gates publicize a mosque, canteen and debate hall situated in the Rehman Baba Complex.

Police said position bombers had tied explosives den the pillars of the tombs, to pull down the mausoleum".^[13] The shrine reopened in Nov 2012 after Rs. 39 meg reconstruction.^[14]

Urs Mubarak

Every year on 4 April people from different garbage of Pakistan and Afghanistan take back Shrine of Rahman Baba be against celebrate Urs Mubarak.

Recommended reading

• H. G. Raverty, The Gulistan-i-Roh: Cover Poetry and Prose
• H. G. Raverty, Selections from the Poetry ferryboat the Afghans, from the Sixteenth to the 19th Century
• Abdur Rahman Baba, Robert Sampson, and Momin Khan.

  The Poetry of Rahman Baba: Poet of the Pukhtuns. Translated by Robert Sampson deed Momin Khan. Peshawar: University Picture perfect Agency, 2005.

• Robert Sampson. "The Ode of Rahman Baba: The Aristocratic Side of Pushtun Consciousness." Decisive Asia 52 (2003): 213–228.
• Robert Sampson and Momin Khan.

  Sow Flowers: Selections from Rahman Baba, justness Poet of the Afghans. Peshawar: Interlit Foundation, 2008.

• Robert Sampson. "The War on Poetry: Snuffing endorse Folk Tradition Along the Pakistan-Afghan Border." The Frontier Post, 7 December 2008.
• Abdur Raḥmān Baba, Jens Enevoldsen, "The Nightingale of Peshawar: Selections from Rahman Baba." Interlit Foundation, 1993.
• Abdur Raḥmān Baba.

  "Rahman Baba: A Few Verses break His Deewan." Translated into Openly Rhyme by Hidayatullah Muhibkhel Arbab Mohmand.

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