Statue of Great Pakistani Punjabi Poet Ustad Daman Located at Desh Bhagat Park Ghall Kalan, Moga (Punjab) India.

' Statue Special '

These Are Some Pictures Of Commemorative Stone And The Statue of Great Pakistani Punjabi Poet Ustad Daman Located at Desh Bhagat Park Ghall Kalan, Moga (Punjab) India. This Statue Was Prepared By Artist Manjit Singh Gill Ji. Manjit Singh Gill Ji Was The Man Who Made The Statue of Pakistani Punjabi Poet Baba Najmi at The Same Desh Bhagat Park Ghall Kalan. Some Days Ago, I Requested Beautiful Punjabi Poet Mr. Deep Zirvi Ji From Zira To Go To Ghall Kalan To Cover The Statue of Ustad Daman With The Inscriptions On Its Base. Here Are Also Pictures of Manjit Singh Gill Ji, Dr Kuldeep Singh Chhabra Ji And Deep Zirvi Ji.

It Is Written on Gurmukhi Memorial Stone erected at The Base Of The Statue of Ustad Daman

'Sanjhe Punjab De Mahaan Kabi Ustad Daman De Butth Di Kund Chukai Aaj Mithi 16.11.2013 Shanivar Nu Hath Likhian Shakshitan Ne Kiti. Shri Jagdev Singh Jasowal, Surjeet Pattar Padam Shri, Dr Jaswant Singh Kanwal.'

'Ustad Daman'

Ustad Daman (1st January 1910 – December 3, 1984) Was a Legendary Punjabi Poet, Writer And Mystic. Humdam Was His First Pen Name Before Daman. Ustad Daman Wrote Many Songs for The Pakistan Film Industry. The Punjabi Poetry Book 'Daman Day Moti' Is The Collection His Poetry.

Ustad Daman Was A Tailor By Profession. Ustad Daman Resided In Hujra-e-Shah Hussain In Lahore. The Great Punjabi Sufi Poet Shah Hussain Resided In It. Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Habib Jalib, Akhtar Sain, Qamar Yorash, Muhammad Ali Actor And Noor Jahan Were Some Notable Visitors Of This Place. The Doors of His House Remained Open For Common Public As Well. His House Became Second Focal Point For The intellectuals of Lahore After Pak Tea House. This House Is Now In Very Miserable Condition. Ustad Daman Academy Established By His Student Named Advocate Muhammad Iqbal Muhammad Is Established In This House Now.

Once in 1930 Ustad Daman Stitched a Suit For Mian Iftikharuddin (Politician, Member of Independence Movement And Owner of English Newspaper Pakistan Times Lahore) Who Got Much Impressed By His Inspiring Poetry. He Invited Ustad Daman To Recite His Poems At a Public Meeting Of The Indian National Congress. Pandit Nehru Was Also Present at This Meeting. After Inspiring By His Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist Poetry, Pandit Nehru Awarded Him The Title Of ‘The Poet of Freedom’. Ustad Daman Was Part of The Struggle For Independence From British Rule. Ustad Daman Believed That All The Communities of Indian Sub-Continent Remain Lived United. He Was An Opponent of The Partition Of India. He Has The Ideology Of Left. During Partition Of Sub-Continent, His Shop And House Were burned. His Wife And Daughter Were Killed. Ustad Daman Even Decided To Stay In Lahore. Ustad Daman Was An Opponent Of Civilian/Military Dictatorship, Corruption And Hypocrisy. His Struggle Against Dictatorship In Pakistan Is Very Glorious. He Was Arrested And Jailed A Lot Of Times. He Struggled Against The Military Dictatorship of Gen. Ayub Khan,Gen Yahya And Gen. Zia Ul Haq. Daman Was Also Against Corruption And Bad Governance In The Country. The Lower Class of The Society Loved Ustad Daman For His Passion For Humanity And Struggle For The Rights Of The Labour Class.

Pandit Nehru Invited Ustad Daman To India in 1952 And Requested Him To Stay Permanently There In India As He Had This Fear That Due To His Left Nationalist Ideas, There Will Not be Much Respect For Him In Pakistan. But Ustad Daman Told Nehru That He Will Live in Lahore, Even if He is Put in Jail.

Here Is A Punjabi Poem Of Ustad Daman. For Global Understanding, We Are Presenting This Famous Poem Of Ustad Daman Both In Shahmukhi And Gurmukhi Scripts:

اس ملک دی ونڈ کولوں یارو
کھْوئے تسی وی او،کھْوئے اسی وی آں

بھاویں مونہوں نہ کہیے پر وچوں وچی
کھْوئے تسی وی او، کھْوئے اسی وی آں

ایہناں آذادیاں ہتھوں برباد ہونا
ہوئے تسی وی او، ہوئے اسی وی آں

کجھ امید اے زندگی مل جائے گی
موئے تسی وی او، موئے اسی وی آں

جیوندی جان ای موت دے منہ اندر
ڈھوئے تسی وی او، ڈھوئے اسی وی آں

جاگن والیاں رج کے لْٹیا اے
سوئے تسی وی او، سوئے اسی وی آں

لالی اکھیاں دی پئی دسدی اے
روئے تسی وی او، روئے اسی وی آں

استاد دامن

ਇਸ ਮੁਲਕ ਦੀ ਵੰਡ ਕੋਲੋਂ ਯਾਰੋ,
ਖੋਏ ਤੁਸੀਂ ਵੀ ਓ, ਖੋਏ ਅਸੀਂ ਵੀ ਆਂ।

ਭਾਵੇਂ ਮੂੰਹੋਂ ਨਾ ਕਹੀਏ ਪਰ ਵਿਚੋਂ ਵਿੱਚੀ,
ਖੋਏ ਤੁਸੀਂ ਵੀ ਓ, ਖੋਏ ਅਸੀਂ ਵੀ ਆਂ।

ਇਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਆਜ਼ਾਦੀਆਂ ਹੱਥੋਂ ਬਰਬਾਦ ਹੋਣਾ,
ਹੋਏ ਤੁਸੀਂ ਵੀ ਓ, ਹੋਏ ਅਸੀਂ ਵੀ ਆਂ।

ਕੁੱਝ ਉਮੀਦ ਏ ਜਿੰਦਗੀ ਮਿਲ ਜਾਏਗੀ,
ਮੋਏ ਤੁਸੀਂ ਵੀ ਓ, ਮੋਏ ਅਸੀਂ ਵੀ ਆਂ।

ਜਿਉਂਦੀ ਜਾਨ ਈ ਮੌਤ ਦੇ ਮੂੰਹ ਅੰਦਰ,
ਢੋਏ ਤੁਸੀਂ ਵੀ ਓ, ਢੋਏ ਅਸੀਂ ਵੀ ਆਂ।

ਜਾਗਣ ਵਾਲਿਆਂ ਰੱਜ ਕੇ ਲੁੱਟਿਆ ਏ,
ਸੋਏ ਤੁਸੀਂ ਵੀ ਓ, ਸੋਏ ਅਸੀਂ ਵੀ ਆਂ।

ਲਾਲੀ ਅੱਖੀਆਂ ਦੀ ਪਈ ਦਸਦੀ ਏ,
ਰੋਏ ਤੁਸੀਂ ਵੀ ਓ, ਰੋਏ ਅਸੀਂ ਵੀ ਆਂ।

(ੳੁਸਤਾਦ ਦਾਮਨ)

Pictures By Deep Zirvi Ji