Cheen-o-Arab Hamara

Film:Phir Subha Hogi 1958
Raj Kapoor
Lyric:Sahir Ludhiyanvi
Music:Khaiyyam Sharmaji
Singer:Mukesh

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Music

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• Hindi
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[rk10101]

Second stanza is incomplete. Can you reload the full song? Thanks.

[ChalChitrRasik]

I have checked and I can confirm that the uploaded clip is exactly the same as my source clip; hence any missing bits must be due to the defect in the original film print.. such is often the case with old Hindi films. Sorry.

[thevikrantdadawala]

Phir Subah Hogi is out on moserbaer for thirty something rupees! :)

[vishnukant]

Beautiful song...heard after 3 decades.

[adnanahmad23]

(2)

Baatil say dabney waley, aey Asman! nahin hum

Sou baar ker chuka hai Tu imtihan hamara

Salar-e-Karwan hai Meer-e-Hijaaz (PBUH) apna

Iss naam say hai baaqi, aaram-e-jahan hamara

Iqbal ka tarana baang-e-dara hai goya

Hota hai jada paima, phir karwan hamara

(Iqbal)

[adnanahmad23]

(1)

Cheen-o-Arab hamara, Hindustan hamara

Muslim main hum, watan hai sara jahan hamara

Tauheed ki amanat senon main hai hamarey

Asan nahin mitana naam-o-nishaan hamara

Duniya kay bu’t kadon main, wo pehla ghar Khuda ka

Hum uss kay pasban hain, wo pasban hamara

[blueandbrave]

BTW, this comment was copied from .sahirludhianvi . com/blog/ Bismil@Delphi

[blueandbrave]

contrast that with “footpaath bambai ke hai aashiyaan hamaara”. Overall, it seems that the song takes a somewhat dim view of the lofty and grandiose nationalism of Iqbal by presenting some home-truths about real present day life.

[blueandbrave]

To which the parody goes “sarkon pe ghoomta hai ab kaarwaan hamaara” or the final line to “saare jahaan” which most people don’t know, goes as follows: “iqbal, koyi mehrum apna nahin jahaan mein, maa’lum kya kisi ko, dard-e-nihaan hamaara” Here, of course, it is “milti nahin majoori, ma’lum kya kisi ko dard-e-nihaan hamaara”

or, from taraana-e-milli, the line goes:

- ae gulistaan-e-andalus, voh din yaad hai tujh ko

tha teri daliyon mein jab aashiyaan hamaara?

[blueandbrave]

Parts are also recognizable as being borrowed from Iqbal’s hymn of INDIAN nationalism, “Taraana-e-Hind”. Some of the references are easily identifiable, especially to Indians who know

“saare jahaan se achha”.

e.g. ae aab-e-rud-e-Ganga,

voh din yaad hai tujhko

utra tere kinaare jab kaarwaan hamaara?

[blueandbrave]

This song is a very very clever take-off of Iqbal’s Tarana-e-milli. Just to show what a clever parody this is of Iqbal, the first verse of Taraanaa-e-milli goes as follows:

Chin-o-arab hamaara

hindostaan hamaara

muslim hai hum, vatan hai saara jahaan hamaara

The real beauty of the first verse is that it turns around Iqbal’s arguably communaland national hymn into a cry of of the oppressed and angu