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"Harmukh" mentioned in this Poem of Habba Khatoon is a Picturesque mountain peak in Kashmir valley with vast landscape & Wandering Clouds.
Sultan Yousuf Shah Chak-The King of Kashmir (from 1579 to 1586 AD) spotted Habba Khatoon singing under the shade of a chinar tree in the fields one day. Mesmerized by her melancholic melodies and stunned by her beauty, She enchanted him with her poetry. He instantly fell in love with her and later tied the knot with her. Everything was well between them for a few years until the time that Kashmir was annexed to the Mughal Empire. Although they had a happy marriage, fate soon drove them apart.
It was at the end of six years of the marriage of Yousuf Shah Chak and Habba Khatoon that Emperor Akbar summoned Yousuf Shah Chak to Delhi. When he arrived at the Mughal court, Yousuf Shah Chak was sent to a prison in Bengal right away, never to see his beloved wife ever again. Later Yousuf Shah Chak was exiled to Bihar, so that the later could take control of Kashmir Valley.
After this incident, Habba became ascetic and wandered around the valley singing her songs for the rest of her life. Through her poems she remembered her love with hopes of finding him and HARMUKH BARTAL is one of them. After few years in 1597 Yousuf Shah died, he was believed to have been poisoned. After his death, kashmir was captured by the Mughals and made into a province of the Mughal Empire. Habba Spent rest of her life in remembrance of her beloved Husband & died in 1609 in Kashmir. Tomb of Kashmir's last Muslim King Yousuf Shah Chak lies in ruins in Bihar while Habba Khatoon's lie's in Athwajan, Srinagar, Kashmir.
Five centuries later, their incomplete eternal love story is still alive in the Poems of Habba Khatoon, still breathing in the Meadows of this mystic land of kashmir, it's safe in the whispers of cold breeze, bushes of forests, snow mountains & gushing rivers.
"HARMUKH BARTAL Bartal Zagai Madaano
My love I will be eagerly waiting for you at the gates of Harmukh.
Yee Dapham Tee Laagayoo
Whatever you want me to be, I shall be like that, my love!
Shaer Dapham Gulab Lagai Madano
If you wish me to be a Lavender flower , I shall be like a rose
Yee Dapham Tee Laagayoo
Whatever you want me to be, I shall be like that, my love!
Phambas Ti Naaras Mil Goom
She (Habba Khatoon) says cotton and fire are now one or they are fused/ intermixed together.
Wallah Mei Tchei Pate Dil goum
In this line, she exclaims with joy, By Allah my heart fell for you/My heart is stuck on you.
Be Tei No Yei Doorer Tchalay Madaano
Here she says, I can’t tolerate this separation my beloved, I can’t bear the distance between us two anymore.
Yee Dapham Tee Laagayoo
Whatever you want me to be, I shall be like that, my love!
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