moHtaram Raj Kumar SaaHib, aadaab.
Huzuur is meN hamaaraa kyaa qusuur hai agar aap is shi3r ko roz-i-avval hii se Ghalat sun rahe haiN! :-) muHtaramah Sarvat Sultanah, haiN to professor lekin achchaa hotaa vuh is shi3r kii siHHat par thoRii taftiish kar letiiN! mere mu3tabir hone par aap ko rattii-bhar shakk nahiiN honaa chaahiye lekin agar aap kaa iimaan qadre kam-zor hai to bandah aap kii xidmat-i-3aaliyah meN kuchh subuut pesh kartaa hai.
jis kitaab se maiN ne is shi3r ko talaash kiyaa, us kaa naam hai "kulliyaat-i-Meer" aur ise Zill-i-Abbas Abbasi ne murattab kiyaa hai aur taraqqii-i-Urdu bureau, na'ii sihlii ne 1983 meN shaa'i3 kiyaa hai. is ke shuruu3 meN chand daanishvaroN ne apne mazaamiin shaamil kiye haiN jin meN aap ke "guruu" janaab-i-Professor Raghupati Sahay "Firaq" bhii jalvah-afroz haiN. diigar Hazraat haiN, Professor Rasheed Ahmed Siddiqi, Qazi Abdul Waduud, Professor Aal-e-Ahmad Suroor aur Zill-i-Abbas Abbasi.
Professor Aal-e-Ahmad Suroor farmaate haiN, "Meer kii kulliyaat kaa vuh edition jo Naval Kishor Press ne aaxirii baar shaa'i3 kiaa thaa aur jis kii siHHat Abdulbari Aasi ne kii thii ab kahiiN dastyaab nahiiN hotaa (1). Ibadat Barelvi ne Pakistan se kulliyaat-i-Meer kaa ek nayaa edition ek taviil muqaddime ke saath shaa'i3 kiyaa thaa, us ke matn meN bahut sii GhalatiyaaN raah paa ga'ii thiiN magar yih bhii ab Hindustan meN nahiiN mil saktaa (2). is liye kulliyaat-i-Meer kii ek aise mustanad edition kii zaruurat saxtii se maHsuus kii jaa rahii thii jo diidah-zeb bhii ho. xushii kii baat hai kih zer-i-nazar edition is zaruurat ko baRii Had tak puuraa kartaa hai. vaise adabii dunyaa meN Harf-i-aaxir to ko'ii bhii nahiiN hotaa."(3)
(1) In the 1941 edition, this shi3r is give as;
buto jaate haiN but-kade se Meer
phir mileN ge agar xudaa laayaa
(2) In the 1958 edition, the shi3r is..
ab to jaate haiN but-kade se Meer
phir mileN ge agar xudaa laayaa
(3) This is the book I've quoted from and the shi3r is as in (2) above.
In 1960, Sayyid Ja'fri compiled "diivaan-i-Meer" in which the shi3r as per (2). Later in 1972, Sayyid Ihtisham Hussain compiled a kulliyaat in which this shi3r is also as per (2).
The earliest nusxah for "diivaan-i-Meer" is the "nusxah-i-Mahmoodabad" written down in 1203 hijrii (1788), twenty three years prior to Meer's death. This has been compiled by Doctor Akbar Haidari. AND the shi3r in question is quoted as:
ab to jaate haiN *but-kade* se Meer
phir mileN ge agar xudaa laayaa
(emphasis mine!:-))
I think it makes more sense for "xudaa" to bring Meer back to a "but-kadah", than to a "mai-kadah". After all, "xudaa" has to compete with the other xudaas in the but-kadah!
Naseer
PS "aHsaas" or "iHsaas" ba-vazn-i-insaaf-o-inkaar"?