Mir Babar Ali Anis
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Mir Babbar Ali Anis
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| Born | 1803 Faizabad, Oudh |
| Died | 7 December 1874 (aged 71) Lucknow, North-Western Provinces |
| Pen name | Anis انیس |
| Occupation | Urdu poet |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Period | Mughal era |
| Genre | Marsiya, Rubai |
| Subject | Battle of Karbala |
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Mir Baber Ali Anees (Urdu:میر ببر علی انیس) was an Urdu poet, born in 1803 in Faizabad, Oudh now in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh who died in 1874 in Lucknow, North-Western Provinces. Anis used Persian, Hindi, Arabic, and Sanskrit words in his poetry. Anis wrote prolonged Marsias, which was a custom of his times, but nowadays only selected sections are narrated even in religious ceremonies. He died in 1291 Hijra, corresponding with 1874 A.D.
Mir Babar Ali Anis was born in 1803 CE at Faizabad. A Musavi sayyed, descended from the 7th Imam, Musa al-Kadhim, he belonged to a family of poets. In his book Khandaan- e-Mir Anees ke Naamwar Sho’ara (Famous Poets from the family of Mir Anis), Zameer Naqvi (Dr. Syed Zameer Akhter Naqvi) listed 22 poets from Mir Anis’ family and their poetry. Mir Anis was a fifth-generation poet, a fact he mentioned in the first stanza of his famous Marsiya "Namak-e-Khwaan-e-Takallum hai Fasaahat meri." He says:
Namak-e-Khwaan-e-Takallum hai Fasaahat meri
Naatqein band hai’n sun sun ke balaaghat meri
Rang udte hain wo rangee’n hai ibarat meri
Shor jiska hai wo darya hai tabeeyat meri
Umr guzri hai isi dasht ki sa’iyaahi mei’n
Paanchvi pusht hai Shabbir ki maddaahi mei’n
My eloquence is the salt of the food of thought
The eloquents are mute when my style they hear
Fly colours when the colour of my ink I jot
The sound of the seas are my ideas clear
Hunting in this forest (for words) spent life I mine
Praising Hussain, fifth in progeny line
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