‘Tum Takaluf ko B Ikhlas Samajtay Ho
”Dost Hota Nai Har Hath Milanay Wala”
Late AHMED FARAZ saahab ki aakhri ghazal :-
Gham-e-hayaat ka jhagda, mita raha hai koii,
Chale aao k duniya se, jaa raha hai koii.
Azal se keh do k ruk jaaye, do ghadi,
Suna hai aane ka vaada, nibhaa raha hai koii.
Wo is naaz se baitthe hain, laash k paas,
Jaise roothe hue ko, manaa raha hai koii.
Palat kar na aa jaye, phir saans nabzon mein,
Itne haseen haathon se, mayyat sajaa raha hai koii……..
Milnay ki gharz ho to chalay aatay hain apnon ki tarha “”,
Dil bhar jaye to jawaab dena bhi gawaara nahi kartay..
Sirf itni si baat pe zamaane ne Laqab Kaafir ka diya
< Faraz >
K Khuda k Naam pe Hum ne Kuch na diya,Tere Naam pe jaan de di..
Kuch muhabat ka nasha tha pehle hm ko Faraz.
Dil jo tota to nashe se muhabat ho gai.
Ahmed Faraz (January 14, 1931 in Nowshera – Pakistan) is considered one of the greatest modern Urdu poets of the last century and greatest living Urdu poet of present times. Faraz is his ‘takhallus’, whereas his real name is Syed Ahmed Shah.
Faraz, who has been compared with Mohammad Iqbal and Faiz Ahmed Faiz, holds a unique position as one of the best poets of current times, with a fine but simplistic style of writing, even common people can easily understand and identify with. Ethnically a Pashto-speaking Pashtun, Ahmed Faraz learned and studied Persian and Urdu at the Peshawar University where he taught these subjects later.
In an interview with Rediff he recalls how his father, a teacher, once bought clothes for him on Eid. He didn’t like the clothes meant for him, but preferred the ones meant for his elder brother. This lead him to write his first couplet:
Layen hain sab ke liye kapde sale se
Layen hain hamare liye kambal jail se
He was told by his parents once to learn mathematics from a female class fellow during the summer vacation. “I was weak in mathematics and geography. I still don’t remember maps and roads”.
Instead of learning mathematics he played bait-bazi with her, a game in which one person recites a couplet and the other one recites another couplet starting from the last letter of the previous one. He always lost, even though he memorized hundreds of couplets for her, but when he started manufacturing his own couplets she couldn’t catch him anymore. Coming from a respectable family of Syeds, descendents of ”Haji Bahadar” a famous saint of Kohat, he moved to Peshawar with entire family. Studied in famous Edwards College Peshawar and then did his Masters in Urdu and Persian. Initially Syed Ahmad Shah Faraz thus became Ahmed Faraz.
During his college time, Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Ali Sardar Jafri were the best progressive poets, who impressed him and became his role models. He initially worked as a script writer at radio Pakistan Peshawar and then moved on to teach Urdu at Peshawar University. In 1976 he became the founding Director General (Later Chairman) of Academy of Letters.
Outspoken about politics, he went into self-imposed exile during the Zia-ul-Haq era after he was arrested for reciting certain poems at a mushaira criticizing the military rule. He stayed for three years in Britain, Canada and Europe before returning to Pakistan, where he was initially appointed Chairman Academy of Letters and later chairperson of the Islamabad-based National Book Foundation for several years. He has been awarded with numerous national and international awards.
He was awarded the Hilal-e-Imtiaz in 2004, in recognition of his literary achievements. He returned the award in 2006 after becoming disenchanted with the government and its policies.
“My conscious will not forgive me if I remained a silent spectator of the sad happenings around us. The least I can do is to let the dictatorship know where it stands in the eyes of the concerned citizens whose fundamental rights have been usurped. I am doing this by returning the Hilal-e-Imtiaz (civil) forthwith and refuse to associate myself in any way with the regime…” a statement issued by the poet.
About his current writings he says: “I now only write when I am forced to from the inside.
Maintaining a tradition established by his mentor, the revolutionary Faiz Ahmed Faiz, he wrote some of his best poetry during those days in exile. Famous amongst poetry of resistance has been “Mahasara”
One amongst his great ghazals is the famous Ranjish Hi Sahi. He has so far written 13 books and all put together comes as “Shehr e Sukhn aarasta hai” his latest publication so far.