Monday, August 25, 2008

Syed Ahmad Shah Faraz / Ahmed Faraz - Famous Urdu Poet

Ahmed Faraz was born in Nowshera (Pakistan) on January 14, 1931. One of the leading contemporary poets, Ahmed Faraz has a simple style of writing with which the common man can identify with. Ethnically a Pathan, Ahmed Faraz studied Persian and Urdu at the Peshawar University.

Outspoken about politics, he went into self-imposed exile during the Zia-ul-Haq regime after he was arrested for reciting certain poems at a mushaira. He stayed for three years in Britain, Canada and Europe before returning to Pakistan where he remained chairperson of the Islamabad-based Pakistan Book Foundation for several years. Maintaining a tradition established by his mentor, the revolutionary Faiz, he wrote some of his best poetry during those days in exile.


Ghazals & Nazms of Ahmed Faraz

kaThin hai raahguzar thoRii duur saath chalo
har ko'ii dil kii hathelii pe hai sehraa rakhe
silsile toR gayaa vo sabhii jaate jaate
ab ke tajdiid-e-vafaa kaa nahiiN imkaaN jaanaaN
usne sukuut-e-shab meN bhii apnaa payaam rakh diyaa
sunaa hai log use aaNkh bhar ke dekhte haiN
phir usii raahguzar par shaayad
terii baateN hii sunaane aaye
ab ke ham bichhRe to shaayad kabhii KhvaaboN meN mileN
ranjish hii sahii dil hii dukhaane ke liye aa
jo bhii dukh yaad na tha yaad aayaa
Khud-kushii
dil bahaltaa hai kahaaN anjum-o-maahtaab se bhii
maiN ke phir dasht-e-rafaaqat kaa safar kar aayaa
terii yaadoN kaa vo aalaam nahiiN hai
dil giraftaa hii sahii bazm sajaa lii jaaye
abr-e-bahaar ab ke bhii barsaa pare pare
ham to yuN Khush the ke ek taar gariibaan meN hai
kyaa aise kam-suKhan se ko'ii guftaguu kare
tujhse bicchaR ke ham bhi muqaddar ke ho gaye

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