নজরুলের অনুবাদে ওমর খৈয়ামের সমাজদর্শন : প্রসঙ্গ রুবাইয়াত-ই-ওমর খৈয়াম/ Omar Khayyam in Nazrul’s Translation : A societal lens view on The Rubaiyat-E-Omar Khayyam

Abstract

Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976) is the rebel poet in Bengali Literature. Omar Khayyam (1048-1123) is a famous Persian poet and astronomer, scientist, philosopher. Khayyam is the pioneer of four stanza poems which are known as Rubai. Rubaiyat-E-Omar Khayyam contains Mysticism, Sufism and satirical critique of religious dogma, social distance and hypocrisy, Nazrul just Recontextualized these themes. Kazi Nazrul Islam translated it into Bengali language directly from Persian language. As Nazrul was a rebel and societal equal poet so he contained and captured the original mood and mind of Omar Khayyam. Khayyam cancels hypocrisy and tries to discover the truth which lies at the bottom of the human mind (Baqui: 2000). Khayyam revolted against religious clerics, outwardly piety; inwardly greedy and Islamic extremist who have the desperate Islamic concept of revolution theory. Nazrul lived in a colonial Period so he saw and revolted against inequality, gender discrimination, religious dogma, Hindu-Muslim riot and vandalism. Khayyam had to endure oppression in his own society expressing his rebellion, Nazrul also had to face the foreign colonial power and found the inequality and oppression on the Collie, Laborer, worker and lower-class people. Once Nazrul started translating Rubai from Khayyam, he did not overcome his own pain, happiness, sorrow, values and love of his heart. This paper will present a comparative analysis of kazi Nazrul Islam’s societal observations, using his Bengali translation and interpretation of Omar khayyam’s Rubaiyat.