Speechless Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

Speechless



Yet thou art speechless seeing what,
Yet thou from the industrious past
Spanning thirty years less only one,
Narrative of thousand and one nights,
Be it sea, land and your fans to imagine
On the coasts, happy lands, sad encounts
Magnificent courts, princes and kings,
‘By order of Sultan and Khatuns’,
Escapades, seeing ‘joyous heart’ Dilshad
And the company of saints, to chagrin,
The ferocious but cultivated King,
Carry train of slaves, white and black,
Number in hundreds, slave girls as gift,
In embassy to the emperor of China
Or as if knowing the nightingale of east,
The Marhata gilrs of Daulat Abad
Exceedingly beautiful, particularly
In their noses and eye brows, who would,
Sit on swings to sing songs, or on Thursday,
In the central pavilion before their teacher.
Of ships, and merchandise and the princes
In the South of India, living like brethren.

-The nightingale of East refers to the great Indian singer
Lata Mangeshkar

-0n reading a section of H.A.R Gibb, Travels of Ibn Battuta

Sadiqullah Khan
Gilgit
June 8,2015.

Thursday, June 18, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: love and art
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Daulatabad also known as Devagiri is a town which includes the Devagiri-Daulatabad fort It carries the distinction of remaining undefeated in battle. It is a 14th-century fort city in Maharashtra state of India, about 16 kilometers northwest ofAurangabad. The place was originally named Devagiri when it was an important uplands city along caravan routes (ca. sixth century AD) , but the intervening centuries have reduced it to a village. However it is also considered to be one of the seven wonders of Maharashtra and a developing tourist spot.
Starting 1327, it famously remained the capital of Tughlaq dynasty, under Muhammad bin Tughluq (r.1325-1351) , who also changed its name, and forcibily moved the entire population of Delhi for two years before it was abandoned for lack of water and Tughluq was constantly known to shift the capital from Delhi to Devagiri and Devagiri to Delhi.
There is a belief that Devagiri was built in 1203 AD by a Dhangar or herdsman who acquired vast wealth by his good fortune. He had a brother who was a shepherd named 'Raja Ram' and in correlation with it he assumed the rank of a Raja (King) . Source: Wikipedia
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