poetry

Faiz Ahmad Faiz was an influential left-wing intellectual, revolutionary poet, and one of the most famous suggested his complicated relationship with religion in general and Islam in particular. He was, nevertheless poets of the Urdu and Punjabi language from Pakistan. A rising figure and notable member of the, inspired by South Asia's Sufi traditions. Faiz Ahmed Faiz was born in Sialkot in Pakistan. He studied philosophy and English literature, but poetry and politics preoccupied him more than anything else. Progressive Writers' Movement (PWM), Faiz was an avowed Marxist-communist, long associated member of Russian-backed Communist Party and was a recipient of Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union in 1962. Despite being repeatedly accused of atheism by the political and military establishment, Faiz's poetry was like flowing water making its way straight to the heart of readers. For writing poetry that always antagonizes the ruling Žlite and challenges colonial and feudal values, like such rebellious writers as Ngugi of Kenya and Darwish of Palestine, Faiz had to go to jail repeatedly during both colonial and postcolonial times in Pakistan. His poem during imprisonment ”zindahan Nama”
Apart from love and romance some running themes in Faiz, s, poetry are also social justice, loneliness, depression oppression, incarceration, hopelessness longings, distances, rootlesness and exile and love for his country. In his throbbing words one could sense his mind and heart speak with passion, his sensitivity, his outrage for social injustice and cruelty rarely seen in Urdu poetry. He is generally regarded in the same group of poets that include the traditionalist Ghalib and the philosophical Iqbal.Faiz admires both, but he has his own unique brand to conquer the hearts of readers. Like on the Indu-pak war, he wrote “Black out”, with some very painful lines which show his utter grieve about the bloodshed of innocent people and the dark nights which raised its smeared claws