Muhammad Akhtar (1928-1974)
better known by his nom de plume Saghar Siddiqui was an urdu poetry artist from
Pakistan. Regardless of his demolished and homeless alone life, he stayed well
known due to his urdu poetry and fruitful till and after his passing as a poor
person. Saghar is otherwise called a paragon of piety and when he passed on, he
doesn't left anything however a pet, his pooch, who additionally kicked the
bucket on the same trail where Saghar kicked the bucket after a year. Saghar
was conceived in 1928 in Ambala British India to a well to do working class
gang. There are few notable records of Saghar's close to home life. He seldom
addresses anybody in this respect and the greater part of what is known of him
has a tendency to be from witness accounts.
Saghar was the main offspring of
his guardians and used the early years of his life in Ambala and Saharanpur UP,
India. He was home mentored and got his initial instruction from Habib Hassan,
a family companion. Teenage Akhtar was abundantly awed of urdu poetry by Habib
Hassan, and he got intrigued by urdu poetry in light of him. Saghar began
composing urdu poetry as a child. He moved to Amritsar (Punjab), looking for
work and used to make wooden brushes while composing urdu poetry. For quite a
while he utilized Nasir Hijazi as his pen name in urdu poetry, yet later he
exchanged to Saghar Siddiqui. At the point when 16 years of age, he customarily
began go to mushairas in Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Gurdaspur as well in 1947,
when he was 19, he relocated to Pakistan amid the freedom and settled in
Lahore. In those days with his thin appearance, wearing jeans and boski shirts,
with wavy hair, and presenting excellent ghazals in a pleasant voice, he turned
into an enormous achievement in urdu poetry. He had some heartbreaking turns
throughout his life. Saghar kept writing of urdu poetry for the film business
and proceeded onward to distribute an abstract magazine. The magazine was a
basic achievement however a business flops. Due to some Confusion Saghar had
close down the magazine. In his later life, he fell into misery, fiscally
demolished and dependent on medications.
Saghar decided to stay in shoddy
inns, as opposed to subside into a house given by the legislature to exiles. He
would pay the rent with inadequate sums win by offering his urdu poetry to
magazines. Now and then he would need to offer his urdu poetry to different
artists for a couple of rupees. He would utilize the waste paper spread around
to light blazes to stay warm amid winter nights. Some of these urdu poetry were
re-sold by these individuals as their work.
Inside 10 years of coming to
Pakistan, he got to be confused as he saw debasement and nepotism being
remunerated at the cost of certified ability. In hopelessness, he turned to
morphine, purchasing it from janitors of healing facilities in Lahore. As
companions and outsiders kept on exploitting him, Saghar fell further into
depression and was soon turned out of lodgings and needed to live in the city
as a homeless person. He was regularly seen along akhbaar market, aibak road,
shah almi, circular road of Lahore, and around the Data Darbar zone. He would
frequently hold mushairas on the trails, in flame light. He kept on wriing
sonnets, however the greater part of them are lost and unpublished.
On 19 July 1974, he was
discovered dead on a roadside in Lahore close alfalah building the shopping
center, at 46 years old. His dead body was discovered one early morning outside
one of the shops. He was covered at the Miani Sahib burial ground. His canine
additionally kicked the bucket at the same spot. Regardless of his smashed
life, some of his verses are among the best in Urdu verse.
Julien Columeau, a French scholar
in Pakistan, composed the Urdu semi narrative novel Saghar focused around
Saghar Siddiqui's life.
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