Heart-Attack

Marhoom Saeed Aslam Rizvi Saheb
(The Last Journey)

Friday 25^th Sept, 2009

There was such pain that night my maddened spirit
Was on fire to wrestle with every living fibre,
Gush out through every pore.
It seemed as if far off in your green bower
The leaves all dripping with my agonized blood
Were sickening of the moon’s beauty-
As if this body were a desert.
All these racked nerves its tent-ropes,
One after one slackening, warning
Of life’s caravan making ready for departure.

On the morning of 23rd September, our beloved brother Saeed Bhai was admitted in the Lari Cardiology Center in Lucknow because of a serious cardiac arrest. He already seemed to be feeling better the next day when I was standing next to his bed. As always, he greeted me with a verse. This time, with a faint smile, he recited:

“MALA-KUL MAUT BA-ZID HAI KE JAA’N LE KE CHALOON
SAR BA SAJDAA HAI MASEEHA KE MERI BAAT RAHE

Saeed Bhai was the last in my generation who embodied all the values for which Lucknow's cultural refinement and humility has been known for. The one who stood by all those values that have been passed on through generations by our ancestors is no more. Saeed Bhai left us on the 25th of September with fond memories and silent echoes, of a loving voice that we can hear never again. May Allah give his soul peace, Aameen.

JAAT-E-HUE KAHTE HO QAYAMAT MEIN MILEN GE
KYA KHOOB QAYAMAT KA HAI GOYA KOI DIN AUR

Sadaa Gore Ghareeban Se Yahee Har Waqt Aati Hai
Zaraa Aye Jaane Walo Apni Manzil Dekhte Jaao

SOGWAR: Irfan Ahmad ,Gen. Manager India Islamic Cultural Centre, N.Delhi

(Secretary PIPFPD U .P .Chapter/V.P.PUCL, UP)