Mirza Ghalib was the last influential Urdu and Persian poet of the Mughal era and his ghazals are still loved and sung by people in Pakistan and India.
Ghalib has been immensely popular in Pakistan and when someone misreads or misquotes his verses or couplets, the social media brigade becomes active.
The Foreign Minister for Information, Fawad Chaudhry knows this all too well after his tweet, where he misquoted Ghalib’s couplet. Sharing a National Accountability (NAB) notice over the microblogging platform, the minister wrote:
ہر اک بات پہ کہتے ہو کہ تو کیا ہے۔۔۔۔ تمھیں کہو یہ انداز گفتگو کیا ہے ۔۔۔۔۔
The actual piece of poetry reads:
ہر ایک بات پہ کہتے ہو تم کہ تو کیا ہے
تمہیں کہو کہ یہ انداز گفتگو کیا ہے
Missing out a ‘تم’ in the first verse was all it needed to trigger the social media, where users started bashing Mr. Chaudhry. Let’s have a look at how people reacted to his mistake.
اصل شعر یہ ہے
ہر "ایک" بات پہ کہتے ہو "تم کہ " تو کیا ہے
تم ہی کہو کہ یہ انداز گفتگو کیا ہے۔@fawadchaudhry
براہِ مہربانی غالب کی روح اور اُن کے اشعار کو سزا مت دیں۔ @irfan_aussies@hassanwaqas— Syed Muhammad Ali (@SmAli92) January 16, 2019
Har Ek Baat Pe Kahte Ho Tum Ki Tu Kya Hai
Tumhin Kaho Ke Ye Andaaz-E-Guftagu Kya HaiChaudhry sahab shair to sahi phara karay.
— Qadeer Shah. (@qadeer282) January 16, 2019
درست شعر۔۔۔۔
ہر ایک بات پہ کہتے ہو تم کہ تو کیا ہے
تمہیں کہو کہ یہ اندازِ گفتگو کیا ہے— Junaid Qaiser جنید قیصر (@JunaidQaiser) January 16, 2019
ہر ایک بات پہ کہتے ہو تم کہ تو کیا ہے
تمہیں کہو کہ یہ انداز گفتگو کیا ہے
غالب— سیدزاد 🕊️ (@Mian__Yahya) January 16, 2019
Faisalabadi is not going easy on him.
خود پر آئے تو "انداز گفتگو" کیا ہے
— Mian Aati (@Mian_Aati) January 16, 2019
Fawad Chaudhry getting a dressing-down.
https://twitter.com/ZubairKhanAdvo1/status/1085563034117046273
Someone (from his own party) sympathizing with Chaudhry.
Ahbab maray lehjay ki talkhi peh hain barham … ghasib ki saza maaf keh woh shireen bayan hai
— Mehmood Ul Hassan (@realhassan_pti) January 16, 2019
no one cares. keyboard warriors
isn’t he the literal Misquote for all the Ch-oudhry community though?! :)
What a stupid criticism? Even some books has written the same words as spoken by Fawad ch. Ghalib has himself written different versions of his Ghazals. Anyhow, emission of the word “you” doesn’t make any difference in the meaning and the message he wanted to convey.
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