New paths of progress, we resolve to tread Proudly, our nation stands with a high head Our flag is aflutter above the moon and the stars As planets look up to us be it Mercury or Mars No harm will now come from anywhere, for sure O, Land of the Pure! The grains of your soil are glowing today Brighter than the stars and the galaxy Awe-struck is the enemy by your will-power Open wounds are sewn, we’ve found a cure O, Land of the Pure! Zarre tere hain aaj sitaron se tabnak Roshan hai kehkashan se kahin aaj teri khak Tundi-e-hasdan pe ghalib hai tera siwaak Daman wo sil gaya hai jo tha mudaton se chaak Aye sar zameen-i-Pak!
Many historians, including Safdar Mahmood and Aqeel Abbas Jafri, reject this claim and believe that Jagan Nath Azad neither met Jinnah nor wrote Pakistan's first national anthem. However, this claim is historically unsubstantiated, disputed and controversial. It was alleged that Jinnah asked Azad to write the anthem on 11 August 1947 and that it was later approved by Jinnah as the official national anthem for the next year and a half. Should the national anthem be rewritten in the Urdu language? Would that have a positive impact on the society? Would people accept that? It is the people of Pakistan who have to decide if the issue is insignificant or an imperative one.For the first time in 2004, it was claimed by an Indian journalist that the first national anthem of Pakistan was written by Jagan Nath Azad, a Hindu poet from Isakhel in Mianwali, on the personal request of Muhammad Ali Jinnah. This is a dilemma that entails extensive discourse to discover the solution to the problem. Read more: Gautam Gambhir jumps in on the national anthem debate! Hence in this context should the leaders be blamed for the dilemmas Pakistan is confronting today? A recent video of the oath taking day has been surfacing on social media, where elected members of the National Assembly were asked to sing the Qaumi Tarana and several of them couldn’t even remember it. Maybe our wise patriotic adults could, but how many of the younger lot understands the essence of their Qaumi Tarana? How can one decipher and internalize those values if the national anthem is written in a ‘foreign language’? A language hardly anyone understands in Pakistan?Īlthough nearly half of the Urdu vocabulary is from Persian (the remainder being from Hindi), and a third of it is Arabic loanwords (that typically came via Persian), yet hardly anyone would still be able to grasp the meaning of the anthem.
The national anthem encompasses the values a country stands for. How many years in school have we religiously sung the anthem? Yet very few would know what it actually means. Let’s talk about what the values the national anthem discuses they are simple and otherwise known to all of us: brotherhood, unity and faith. Read more: Ali Zafar composes PSL anthem for third consecutive year It was created by the use of twenty-one musical instruments and thirty-eight different tones. Chagla and penned by Hafez Jullundhri, is three stanzas long, with no repetition of lines anywhere and takes about 80 seconds to sing. How can one relate to its country without knowing what it stands for? How many of us know the meaning of our Qaumi Tarana? How can we connect to it if we don’t know what it stands for? The language barrier has obstructed the people to connect with the soul of the writer who had penned down his aspirations for the newly born country named Pakistan. The understandability of national anthem in a ‘foreign language’ has significantly reduced in the present age.
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