In Agelic Whipers, Shahabuddin Rahmatullah takes the reader on an exotic journey to a faraway fairyland of long ago. We leave the confusion of today's world and enter the privacy of love's garden-a Persian rose garden of secret delights and strange worders. Here under the moonlit sky, we spend nights of endless passion with our beloved.
Come, Beloved, come!
Make the springtime breeze
Blow and cause all buds to bloom---
For the nightingale's love-play
To go on and on.
These Persian-style love lyrics-or Urdu Ghazals--whisper of the innocence, joy, and devotion that is true love. But Mr. Rahmatullah is also a masterful guide through the dark paths of love's garden-paths full of seduction, deceit, and shameless desire. Here, a moment of vulnerability surrenders to the touch of a forbidden lover-the bliss of life.
All the revelries
And sensuous joys of life
Couldn't compare
With the pleasures that
I derived out of
My anguish, grief
And pangs of love.
Mr. Rahmatullah's Ghazals evoke a purity of feeling that is seldom encountered in modern sensitive literature. Through them all the splendor and lure of love's glorious garden is fully revealed. The days of the great and talented Mughals are recalled most vividly! The values of an older world are preserved for posterity. It is a triumph for the weaker sex of today and beautiful women the world over!
It seems that from the world beyond
Shahab did get his thoughts, and all
His verse of which this world's so fond,
From some lost Angel's lips did fall!
Born in 1913, in Bihar, India, Shahabuddin Rahmatullah studied at the Government Arrah Zilah School, Patna Government College, Jesus College, Oxford, and the Honorable Society of the Middle Temple, London. A barrister-at-law, the author has served twenty-one years in Civil Service, holding positions as the first district officer of Dhaka, East Bengal (Pakistan), and the youngest divisional commissioner in Pakistan. Mr. Rahmatullah-a well known poet and intellectual-also illustrates his own books. In his leisure, he is a keen polo player and big-game hunter of international fame. In 1951, he shot a world-record size Bengal tiger.
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