| Hum Dekhenge | |
|---|---|
| by Faiz Ahmed Faiz | |
| Original title | ویبقی و جہ ر بک |
| Written | 1979 |
| First published in | 1981 |
| Language | Urdu |
| Lines | 21 |
Hum Dekhenge (Urdu : ہم دیکھیں گے - In english We shall see) is a popular Urdu nazm, written by the Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz. [1] Originally written as Va Yabqá Vajhu Rabbika (And the countenance of your Lord will outlast all), [2] it was included in the seventh poetry book of Faiz -- Mere Dil Mere Musafir.
The nazm was composed as a medium of protest against Zia Ul Haq's oppressive regime. [3] It gained a rapid cult-following as a leftist [4] [5] song of resistance and defiance, [6] after a public rendition by Iqbal Bano at Alhamra Arts Council [7] [8] on 13 February 1986, [9] ignoring the ban on Faiz's poetry. [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16]
Faiz employs the metaphor of traditional Islamic imagery to subvert and challenge Zia's fundamentalist interpretation of them; Qayamat, the Day of Reckoning is transformed into the Day of Revolution, wherein Zia's military government will be ousted by the people and democracy will be re-installed. [15] [17]
The song was recreated in Coke Studio Season 11 on 22 July 2018, under the aegis of Zohaib Kazi and Ali Hamza. [18] [upper-alpha 1] In the movie The Kashmir Files (2022), it was depicted as being sung by students of a left-leaning Indian university to as a song of protest [20]
The poem gained importance in protests against Pervez Musharraf in the early 2000s. [21] [22]
During the Citizenship Amendment Act protests in India, [23] faculty members of IIT Kanpur took issue with Hum Dekhenge being sung by protesting students in the campus, and alleged it to be "anti-Hindu". [24] [upper-alpha 2] The IIT instituted a commission to look into the issue. [25] The student media body rejected the charges as being misinformed and communal, which divorced the poem from its societal context. [26] [27] During the same period of early 2000s Madan Duklan, a prominent actor, director and poet in Garhwali language translated 'Hum Dekhenge' in Garhwali language. Encouraged and directed by Dr. Sunil Kainthola, local artists who were participating in a production orientation workshop for 'Mukhjatra' sang the Garhwali version of Hum Dekhenge in front of the Uttarakhand movement's martyrs monument in the court compound at Dehradun.
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