Font by Mehr Nastaliq Web

aaj ik aur baras biit gayā us ke baġhair

jis ke hote hue hote the zamāne mere

CANCEL DOWNLOAD SHER
Momin Khan Momin's Photo'

Momin Khan Momin

1800 - 1852 | Delhi, India

Contemporary of Ghalib and Zauq. Also a physician, astrologer and chess player. Mirza Ghalib is said to have offered his complete Divan for his sher "Tum mere paas hote ho goya, Jab koi doosra nahin hota"

Contemporary of Ghalib and Zauq. Also a physician, astrologer and chess player. Mirza Ghalib is said to have offered his complete Divan for his sher "Tum mere paas hote ho goya, Jab koi doosra nahin hota"

Profile of Momin Khan Momin

Pen Name : 'momin'

Real Name : Hakim Momin Khan

Born :Delhi

Died : 14 May 1852 | Delhi, India

Relatives : Taskeen Dehlavi (Disciple)

LCCN :n80013612

tum mire paas hote ho goyā

jab koī dūsrā nahīñ hotā

in such a manner are you close to me

when no one else at all there ever be

tum mere pas hote ho goya

jab koi dusra nahin hota

in such a manner are you close to me

when no one else at all there ever be

Momin Khan Momin (1800-1852), whose father and grandfather were court physicians, was born, educated, and settled in Delhi. He received his education at the famous Shah Abdul Qadir’s school under the coveted guidance of Shah Abdul Aziz, a celebrated theologian and reformer of his times. Momin had a wider exposure to a variety of disciplines and languages like Arabic, Persian, Urdu; medicine, mathematics, and astrology. Music and chess were the other areas of his keen interest which he cultivated with care.

Momin was essentially a poet of the earthly love which he expressed best in the form of ghazal. The lover in his poetry is one of amorous disposition; he represents love along with lust, and lust as a part of life’s romance. As Momin dwelt upon the psychology of the lover, he explored his moods and reflexes, as also his erotic tendencies. In celebrating romantic love in all its manifestations, he drew upon the purity of diction, deeply nuanced phrases, and indirect modes of expression. All these made way, sometimes, for a metaphysical apprehension of the phenomenon of love and the figure of the lover. Momin was an aesthete; he personalised his material which distinguished him from many other poets who objectified them. Apart from his Urdu divaan, Momin has also left behind a Persian divaan, and works in prose. 

Tagged Under

Recitation

Jashn-e-Rekhta | 13-14-15 December 2024 - Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium , Gate No. 1, New Delhi

Get Tickets
Speak Now