Beautiful Ghazal with many good ash’aar ( I like the ideas behind bold one)
Tere Qareeb Aake Bari Uljhanoun Mein Houn
Mein Dostoun Mein Houn Tere ke Dushmanoun Mein Houn
Mujh Se Gurez-pa Hay Tou Har Raasta Badal
Mein Sang-e-Raah Houn Tou Sabhi Raastoun Mein Houn
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Tu aa chuka hai sitah pe kab se khabar nahin
Be dard main abhi unhi gehraiyon main hoon**
Ae yaar e Khush dayar tujhe kia khabar ke main
Kab se udasion ke ghane jangal main hoon
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Tu loot kar bhi ihl e tammana ko khush nahin
Main lut ke bhi wafa ke unhi qafilon main hoon**
Badla Na Merey Baad Bhi Mozo-e-Guftugu
Mein Ja Chuka Houn Phir Bhi Teri Mehfiloon Mein Houn
Mujh Se Bichar Ke Tu Bhi Tou Royega Omar Bhar
Ye Soach Le Ke Mein Bhi Teri Khawahishoon Mein Houn
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Tu hans raha hai mujh per mera haal dekh kar
Aur phir bhi shareek main tere qejqahon main hoon**
Khud bhi misal e laala e sehra lahoo lahoo
aur khud Faraz apne tamashaiyon main hoon
**“Ab Uske Shehr Mein Tehrain Keh Kooch Ker Jaayin” - **An Article on Ahmed Faraz
Ahmed Faraz, who left this mortal world on Monday the 25th August, 2008 was born in Nowshera in 1931. Ahmad Faraz initially had a passion to join Pakistan Air Force which he couldn’t, but through out his life he flew higher and higher due to his god gifted poetic skills. He was a man full of feelings. He started expressing his feelings in the shape of poetry while studying in 10th class. He got an opportunity to meet literary people in his early age as his father; Agha Burq was also a well known poet. He received masters’ degrees in Persian and Urdu literature from the University of Peshawar.
Faraz started his career as a scriptwriter with Radio Pakistan. He had been an academician and was director general of the Academy of Letters. He had been a proud recipient of Adamjee Award, Sitara-e-Imtiaz of Government of Pakistan, Dr Iqbal Award from the Academy of Letters, Honorary Life Fellowship of the Academy of Letters, an Honorary Doctorate in Literature from the University of Karachi.
Faraz occupied a unique place among the bouquet of poets of the modern era, with his remarkable style of writing. Faraz was truly one of the major poets of the modern-day Urdu poetry. His poetry was both traditional and broadminded. Ahmed Faraz was a modern poet who gave a new trend to the Urdu poetry. His poetry had been translated into many languages of the world. Collections of his poetry are quite popular and some of them had won major literary awards.
Ahmed Faraz was fully capable of the art to convert emotions of love into thought and word to create romantic poetry. Obligated with mixed signals of love within one’s heart and trying to make it complete and finding the steps necessary to understand the duality of the two is a difficult process. When this happens though, there is beauty to be heard from romantic poetry. Faraz and his poetry both knew the fact that one’s emotions can become tangible and pierce the heart of another, bringing two souls together that otherwise may have never been joined in each other’s love. Hence poetry such as Faraz’s can play pivotal role in bringing the hearts closer and closer.
**His first collection of poems, “Tanha Tanha” was published in 1958 while he was a student and became well known among poets and critics. In 1966, his second book, “Dard Ashoob” made him well known to those who were working for a progressive socio-economic system. He also wrote plays for Radio Pakistan and PTV. These were published in 1972 under the title “Mere Khawab Reza Reza”.
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He received many national and international awards. He won the Adamjee Award in 1966. His third collection of poems, “Nayaft”, (Unattainable) was declared the best book of the year in 1970. He received the Dhanak Award for the most popular national poet in 1972. Also in Pakistan, he won the Abasin Award for literature, the J.N. Tata Award for Peace and Human Rights, and the Naqoosh Award for Literature (1992-1993). The international awards he achieved include the Firaq Award (India, 1982) and the International Urdu Award (Canada, 1991).
His works include ten volumes of poems and a collection of plays in addition to articles and interviews published both nationally and internationally. Other collections of his works include Janaan Janaan (1976), Be Awaz Gali Koochoon Mein (1982), ?Nabeena Shehr Mein Aaina (1984), Sab Awazeen Meri Hain (1985), Pas Andaz Mosam (1989), Bodluk (a play in verse, 1994), and Peman. His works were published in four volumes by the University of Acain, U.A.E in 1987 with the title of Assasa.
Ahmed Faraz’s services to Urdu language have no parallel, making him a legend and a symbol for being an upright fearless character that would stand up to even the most ruthless totalitarians. Faraz had been sadistic poet par excellence whose poetry was marked by sweetness and lyricism with a quality of grace, a tremulous sensitivity, and an ineffable beauty about human relationships that has timeless appeal. The creator of some of the most popular verses, both political and literary, Faraz had always been an activist for democracy and rule of law and was even jailed by certain rulers.
Faraz was considered a symbol of romance in Urdu Poetry. He at many a times admitted that “Mera mijaz shuru se hi Aashiqana tha”. And by the grace of ALLAH almighty he always stood by his words.
His poems, like those of Faiz and Sahir Ludhianvi, were equally popular with common readers and scholars. Full of sorrow and pain, most of them have social and political diction. He firmly believed in the philosophy of the progressive movement.
The passion filled poetry of Ahmed Faraz familiarizes human thoughts and emotions intimately with a different world, expressing love in a truthful way. Romantic Faraz and his poetry build an allusion of the world distorted into the shape of human emotions.
Faraz’s poetry paved the way for emergence of new feelings of love, distress, dejection and a hope at the same time. Romantic Faraz and his poetry marked the way for allowances for free thinking to flourish in an age where reserved and conventional social and political thinking prevails. Romantic poetry of Faraz seems like entering into one’s soul with its massive force.
Although Faraz is no more in this world, still he would be remembered for his great literary contributions. Faraz was one and only and has left behind a big vacuum in the field of Urdu poetry. His fans belonging from all age groups will miss him a lot. May Allah bless his departed soul, Ameen.
Faraz famous Poem ‘Muhasra’. It addresses directly to the in power General Zia, against his dictorial tactics to Ahmad Faraz in 1981, urging him to apprehend his Progressive writing for democracy.
