Muhammad Haque introducing Panjayree, in the context of the oppression of the lone night. that envelopes so much of the world...

“Witnessing the bleak oppression of the lone night”.

By © Muhammad Haque
1030 Hrs GMT
London
Sunday 25 December 2011

What is the context of updating on Kay Jordan’s importance in defending the community with the Khoodeelaar! Camapgn?
How is Kay Jordan’s work relevant to an international appreciation of something the poet Farrukh Ahmad said in his Panjayree?
Kay Jordan's work as a community architect is most noticeable in the East London borough of Tower Hamlets. As she said in here short speech on 22 January 2006 given at the Community Support to the Khoodeelaar! Camapgn against Crossrail hole assault plot, the local community contained a vital part of what makes the Bangladeshi population in the UK. Kay Jordan said elsewhere during the KHOODEELAAR! Camapgn against Crossrail hole plot that it [the Crossrail hole plot] threatened the economic, social and the community life of the Bangladeshis.
At that time, January 2006, the Khoodeelaar! Camapgn was being maintained against the background of a very persistent project that the “local” Tower Hamlets Coucnil had been funding.
The Council bureaucracy, which I have described as a corrupt clique controlling the Council’s agenda in defiance of its ethical, democratic and legal obligations, was callously spreading lies about the “benefits” that Crossrail ATTACK would bring to the area! Because the Council’s corrupt bureaucracy was in touch with most of the Council-funded [“grant-aided”] “community” projects in the area, the FUNDED projects were being used to betray the community.
And this was being done by spreading the lies.
So much so that on Saturday 24 December 2011, in Brick Lane, one Bangladeshi man who is known to belong to a clutch of Council-funded “community projects” uttered a typically poisonous lie. He said that it was the Khoodeelaar! Camapgn that was responsible for “moving the 2012 Games hosting venue and stadium” from “Brick Lane to Stratford”!
What that shows is that the couriers of the Crossrail agenda lies cannot see the depth to which they have sunk in their engagement of servitude to the deniers and the violators of the community.
Extrapolate that courier of the lies to include all the funded couriers and it will be hard to find anyone who sees the true picture let alone has the courage and the sense to tell the truth. It is against the background of a local population being so blinded and brainwashed that one bit of Panjayree, one of Farrukh Ahmad’s most powerful poems, can be applied:

In my translation
The narrator addressing Panjayree says that he/she is

“Witnessing the bleak oppression of the lone night”.

The witness
The Bleak Oppression
The lone night.

These components are universal and the statement is universal.
But it is not so when read in the original.
This is what I say after studying the poem over a long long period of time.

Witnessing the dark moment in the life of a community.

In Tower Hamlets there thus prevails a dark moment.
Anyone who can see the darkness must feel as a witness to the bleak oppression.
The oppression is to the sense of righteousness, the sense of fairness and justice. The overwhelming wish, desire ands longing is for justice to emerge.
And thus waiting for the bleakness to end.
And for enlightenment to dawn.

[To be continued]