Rahman Baba - all the poems translated into English http://www.rahmanbaba-poetry.com Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:05:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 Good news! Reconstruction has begun http://www.rahmanbaba-poetry.com/reconstruction-begins.htm http://www.rahmanbaba-poetry.com/reconstruction-begins.htm#comments Mon, 20 Sep 2010 06:02:24 +0000 admin http://www.rahmanbaba-poetry.com/?p=287 Explosions cannot destroy the Vision of tolerance and love promoted by the mystical poet Rahman Baba.

                                                                                                                         Progress in reconstructing the Mazaar

Progress in reconstructing the Mazaar

Here is a picture taken at the site in June. The foundations are dug and the building is about to begin. May his vision be rebuilt in the hearts of his people. Ameen.

]]> http://www.rahmanbaba-poetry.com/reconstruction-begins.htm/feed Which version of the Diwan is the most beautiful? http://www.rahmanbaba-poetry.com/which-version-of-the-diwan-is-the-most-beautiful.htm http://www.rahmanbaba-poetry.com/which-version-of-the-diwan-is-the-most-beautiful.htm#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:09:26 +0000 admin http://www.rahmanbaba-poetry.com/?p=238 I was just in the Pashto academy in Peshawar today, looking at their collection of original manuscripts of the Diwan - hand written in different scripts. This version caught my eye, as one of the most beautiful ones. What do you think?

Manuscript 59Who can send a translation into English?

]]> http://www.rahmanbaba-poetry.com/which-version-of-the-diwan-is-the-most-beautiful.htm/feed Web site to see the damage to the mazar of Rehman Baba http://www.rahmanbaba-poetry.com/damage.htm http://www.rahmanbaba-poetry.com/damage.htm#comments Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:28:09 +0000 admin http://www.rahmanbaba-poetry.com/?p=216 Rahmans Mazar Blown up

]]> http://www.rahmanbaba-poetry.com/damage.htm/feed What did Rahman Baba look like? http://www.rahmanbaba-poetry.com/looks.htm http://www.rahmanbaba-poetry.com/looks.htm#comments Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:35:57 +0000 admin http://www.rahmanbaba-poetry.com/?p=212 Most people in the NWFP think that Rahman looked something like this picture below:

Traditional Rahman

Traditional Rahman

Of course we don’t really know what he looked like. Maulana Bijili Gar says that he looked in the tomb and saw him when they moved his grave to the new mazar. Perhaps he knows what he looks like.

Interestingly one hand copied version of the Diwan has this sketch in the front:

The only picture of Rahman

The only picture of Rahman

What do you think?

Imdad

]]> http://www.rahmanbaba-poetry.com/looks.htm/feed Where is Rahman’s poetry used? http://www.rahmanbaba-poetry.com/where.htm http://www.rahmanbaba-poetry.com/where.htm#comments Sat, 14 Mar 2009 07:32:00 +0000 admin http://www.rahmanbaba-poetry.com/?p=202 Where have you seen poetry of Rahman used?

Here are couplets on the ceiling of a restaurant.

I have seen the poems on the back of donkey carts and on school noticeboards.

Where else do his verses get written?

If you can find somewhere that his poetry is written near where you live

take a photo and post a message here with your email.

I will email you back and then add your picture to our website.

Rahman’s poetry needs greater exposure in our world.

Thanks

Imdad

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In February 2008 the poetry of Rahman Baba translated into English by Sampson and Khan was used on stage in Canada in the short opera The Translator.

The new opera was part of an innovative series hosted by the Harbourfront Centre, Toronto. Leanna Brodie’s opera, put to music by David Ogborn, tells the story of a Pukhtun held in an American prisoner camp. The climax of the drama is when the young American woman who acts as the translator realizes that the prisoner is a sensitive and peaceful man when he quotes Rahman’s poem ‘Sow Flowers’.  The sterotype of Pukhtuns as militants is broken.

These  pictures of the Opera are courtesy of Photographer Bruce Zinger. The performers are soprano Jessica Lloyd and baritone Calvin Powell.

Thanks to tapestrynewopera.com for letting us use their pictures.

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]]> http://www.rahmanbaba-poetry.com/oper.htm/feed Translation Competition http://www.rahmanbaba-poetry.com/translation-competition.htm http://www.rahmanbaba-poetry.com/translation-competition.htm#comments Sat, 14 Mar 2009 04:47:52 +0000 admin http://www.rahmanbaba-poetry.com/?p=183 I will send a free copy of the Sow Flowers booklet to the person making the best translation of this popular verse in praise of Rahman’s wisdom:

د رحمان وينا به هله در په ياد شي
چې دې يو دېوال ته مخ بل ته دې شاه شي

Post your translation here.

Imdad.


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که يو څاڅکے اوبه تږى لره ورکړې
د دوزخ او ستا تر مينځ به شى دريا

If you give a drop of water to the thirsty,

It will become a river between you and hell.


]]> http://www.rahmanbaba-poetry.com/couplet-of-the-month.htm/feed Follow up on Shrine Damage http://www.rahmanbaba-poetry.com/how-much-damage.htm http://www.rahmanbaba-poetry.com/how-much-damage.htm#comments Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:26:26 +0000 admin http://www.rahmanbaba-poetry.com/?p=175 I haven’t been the Mazar since it was damaged, and I’m wondering what it looks like now.

Has anyone been there lately and describe the damage to me?

]]> http://www.rahmanbaba-poetry.com/how-much-damage.htm/feed Pictures of the damage http://www.rahmanbaba-poetry.com/pictures.htm http://www.rahmanbaba-poetry.com/pictures.htm#comments Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:11:09 +0000 admin http://rahmanbaba-poetry.com/?p=151 These are photos from Associated Press, taken the day after the bombing of the shrine.
Bamb damage to the Rahman Baba shrine

Bomb damage at the mazar of Rahman Baba

Damage to the tomb of the baba

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