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Salang's Spirits
By Farhad Azad
It was September 2002. I stood on the Salang highway. The early fall hues donned the trees, and towering peaks surrounded us. This was where Ahmad Zahir met his end on June 14, 1979. The exact spot remained elusive, a ghost in the mountain road.
The road was a scar, ravaged by years of conflict, a mirror of the land's wounds. The people I met, their eyes held a quiet sorrow, a weariness born of too many battles, too many lost hearts.
Yet, beneath that reserve, a flicker of warmth stayed, a testament to the continuing spirit of a people who had known too much darkness.
This was my moment captured from Salang, a landscape etched in memory, where the beauty of the peaks mingled with the phantoms of a rugged past.
Ahmad Zahir's song, lyrics by Ada and composed by Nainawaz, 1978.
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افسوس کـه عشق پاک Sadly your pure love | Ahmad Zahir
افسوس کـه عشق پاک
Sadly your pure love
آهنگ احمد ظاهر
Song by Ahmad Zahir (1946-79)
افسوس کـه عشق پاک تو رنگ هوس گرفت
Sadly your pure love took the color of desire
آتش به جان این ثمری زودرس گرفت
The flame hasty reached the soul of this fruit
دانی امید زندگی‌ام بود عشق تو
You know the hope of my life was your love
رفتی و عشق و آنچه به من داد پس گرفت
You left and took back the love you had given me
Translated from the Farsi by Farhad Azad, with edits by Parween Pazhwak.
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Over twenty years ago, I met an acquaintance of Ahmad Zahir, who owned a charming restaurant in Alameda Marina in Northern California. He told me that he had known Ahmad Zahir for the last two years of the singer's life.
He spoke about the curfew imposed on Kabul during the monstrous Khalq regime, how Ahmad Zahir packed his friends in the car and attempted to purchase the last racks of kabobs, tipping the kabob seller's apprentice wads of cash—his friends would heavily protest. Ahmad Zahir would say we should help others in need.
"When you hear his private recordings," he said, "you think there are many people with him, but there were just four or five of us. We would eat and drink, and he would sing with his powerful voice. So powerful, without a microphone, the windows would rattle! He would continue into the night until dawn."
These stories provide a glimpse of a man whose voice is heard worldwide, every hour, day and night. Yet so little of his story is written. What we have are petite fragments of oral history from those few who remain with us today.
For me, this song افسوس کـه عشق پاک ("regretfully your pure love") has a unique place for all those who have lost a love— and we are left with is a bitter emptiness.
The contemporary poet Liala Zaray wrote, "I truly believe there's an Ahmad Zahir song for every feeling."
I wholeheartedly believe she is right because his songs are genuine art that mirror reality.
He never recorded this particular song on the radio Kabul or private labels, and the composition and poet are still unknown to me.
One can possibly hear Nainawaz's roaring voice in the background on the track. Was he the composer?
When I listen to this song, I imagine traveling through time to one of these cloistered evenings. Ahmad Zahir, Kabul's evening nightingale, sings until the first light, and then the winged nightingales carry his place in the garden to rouse the flowers from their slumber. The dew, the tears of the night from his sorrowful lyrics, gingerly fall from the soft petals.
— Farhad Azad
March 16, 2024
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"neh ba masjid rah dawdan, neh dar awn mai khanaye" "neither was i allowed in the temple, nor in the home of the sinner" ahmad zahir, the king of pop, lives on in our hearts.
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Afghanistan:
Ahmad Zahir
A post about Afghani music would not be complete without Ahmad Zahir. Sometimes referred to as the “Elvis of Afghanistan”. I first heard about him from this podcast on Radio Lab. It’s a great listen. The video is long, with a bunch of his songs. He really is an Afghani icon.
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Nainawaz: A Luminary in the Realm of Songs and Melodie
Nainawaz: A Luminary in the Realm of Songs and Melodie
Interview with Abdul Ahmad Ada on his partnership with Nainawaz
Recorded in Kabul and aired in 1988 on RTA (Radio Television Afghanistan)
Show hosted by Zakia Kohzad
Farsi transcript and edits by Parween Pazhwak
Subtitles translated by Farhad Azad
Spring 2024 بهار ۱۴۰۲ AftaabMag.com
Whispers of the Unwritten
By Farhad Azad
The poet and the composer—their creative bond in the Farsi language echoes with the weight of centuries. Rudaki رودکی, a 9th-century illustrious poet, embodied this tradition by weaving words and melodies, laying the foundation of modern Farsi.
Fast-forward to the early 2000s, when my friend Tameem Afzali shared a treasure: a faded VHS tape of an interview exploring a musical era we both cherished.
Years later, the grainy footage flickered back to life in a digital format, rekindling my fascination with the alchemy of lyrics and music—and, precisely, how a gifted poet's words danced in harmony with a legendary composer.
This 1988 Kabul TV interview unlocks a window into the world of the Kabul-born poet عبدالاحمد ادا Abdul Ahmad Ada (1927-94) and the renowned composer فضل احمد زکریا نینواز Fazel Ahmad Zekrya Nainawaz (1935-79). Their partnership pulsed with creative energy until Nainawaz's untimely death in 1979.
In this brief aired program, Ada provides a glimpse of his creative partnership with the composer— a symphony of words and melody culminating in ten songs for Ahmad Zahir's احمد ظاهر iconic album, The Song of Life آهنگ زندگی—all composed en route in a rain storm from Kabul to Kunduz.
This is their final work, a touching reflection of their partnership cut tragically short— the album title is duly fitting. The collaboration date lingers near the spring of 1978, a bittersweet season marking the end of an era and soon after the opening of the gates of hell, by the Khalq coup, on a people who haven't healed from it to this day.
Ada’s voice, close to a decade after the loss of Ahmad Zahir and Nainawaz, carries the weight of implicit grief. Reserved, his words seem to falter to an invisible barrier. The music within him has fallen silent—he states I stopped writing songs.
Though unspoken, the shade of censorship hangs heavy. Ada cannot name the truth: Ahmad Zahir's murder in Salang on June 14, 1979, nor Nainawaz's execution at the hands of the Khalq regime during the Bala Hissar revolt of August 5, 1979 in Kabul. Their voices were silent, leaving an aching hush effortlessly sensed in Ada's voice.
Today, Ada's verses breathe within the unforgettable songs of a bygone era—a vibrant soundscape bursting with colors and brilliance forever waiting to be rediscovered.
Thus, we arrive with these unfading lyrics from Ada's "The Song of Life," their message resonating through the voice of Ahmad Zahir and Nainawaz’ composition:
آهنگ زندگی، خواند به گوش من
in my ear, the song of life has been sung:
رو سوی عشق کن که ترا فرصت اندک است
turn to love, for your time is fleeting
در پهنه‌ی جهان، مشت غبار من
in the expanse of the world, my handful of dust
غير از هوس قلمرو ديگر شناخته است
knows no other realm but desire
چیزی به نام دل، بوده است گوییا
in the name of the heart, perhaps it was
از چشم انتظار فلک افتاده است
from the yearning of the skies has fallen
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