{"id":719,"date":"2013-01-29T11:45:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T11:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.safiahaleem.com\/?page_id=719"},"modified":"2013-10-05T13:09:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T13:09:25","slug":"test-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.safiahaleem.com\/?page_id=719","title":{"rendered":"Shinwari ka Sharrwai"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"eng\">\n<p>A popular Pashto video of the singer Zarsnaga could be seen on some Websites. \u00a0It is a very old and famous song about the River Bara and Shinwari Lawangina.<\/p>\n<p>The song is, \u00a0 Pa de Barra ke Obo Gadday Wadday Zeena- \u00a0Sharrwahi Lanwangeena.<\/p>\n<p>The actual \u00a0verse was probably composed by a lady who was filling her clay pitcher from the Barra (Badha) river. \u00a0She used the word, &#8221; Shadh wahi&#8221; \u00a0(Sharr is the sound of the water and Wahi is a verb meaning to beat) \u00a0 The word Sharr \u00a0is used in other forms as well, like Sharral, Ve Sharra, etc. \u00a0If you have been to a river and seen the waves of water hitting the banks and making a sound, that sound is &#8221; Sharr&#8221; in Pashto language.<\/p>\n<p>This famous Bara river flows through the land of the Afridi tribes in the mountains of Tirah and falls down to the planes of Momands. It joins the KabulRiverCanal from the Warsak Dam, and flows to the North-east joining the KabulRiver near Naushera.\u00a0 No Shinwaris lived by its banks anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>The Question is how and who changed Sharrwahi to Shinwari?\u00a0 The Pashtoon singers are usually illiterate and very few had studied the literature.\u00a0 Moreover, their composers do not have enough information about the language and its diction.<\/p>\n<p>The Pashtoons love the rhythm and the beat of the music and care less for what is being sung.\u00a0 If somebody tries to correct the mistake, it is dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>I am sure some readers will object on this writing as well.\u00a0 Is it a small matter?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A popular Pashto video of the singer Zarsnaga could be seen on some Websites. \u00a0It is a very old and famous song about the River Bara and Shinwari Lawangina. The song is, \u00a0 Pa de Barra ke Obo Gadday Wadday Zeena- \u00a0Sharrwahi Lanwangeena. The actual \u00a0verse was probably composed by a lady who was filling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1458,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safiahaleem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safiahaleem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safiahaleem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safiahaleem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safiahaleem.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.safiahaleem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/719\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safiahaleem.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safiahaleem.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}