Views: 107Faiz Ahmed Faiz Initial Life : Faiz Ahmed Faiz means generous or kind, born on February 13, 1911, in Sialkot. His father, Sultan Muhammad Khan (d. 1913), was an extraordinary person. He is the son of a landless farmer whose ancestors came to India from Afghanistan and worked as a shepherd in his childhood. He studied Urdu and English and through a combination of intelligence, commerce and luck was able to study law at Cambridge University. He later became the personal translator and chief minister of the Anglophone Afghan Emir Abdur Rahman (from the early 1840s to 1901), editing and writing his English translation. He had many wives, including the daughters of Afghan nobles. He returned to Sialkot, where he befriended Muhammad Iqbal, practiced law and married his mother, Faiza’s last and youngest wife. Famous father’s son: Faiz studied at the Church of Scotland High School in Sialkot and later went to Lahore Government College affiliated with Punjab University. Faiz Ahmed Faiz stated that here “Iqbal had the same teacher, the Quran scholar and professor of Arabic Syed Mir Hassan (1844-1929).” In 1932 he received a master’s degree in English with a thesis on the poetry of Robert Browning, and in 1934 he received a master’s degree in Arabic under the tutelage of Syed Mir Hassan. At the same time, some of his first poems were published in Caravan magazine. Explaining how he started writing, Faiz Ahmed Faiz said, “I started writing as a hobby; I started without any particular reason to become a writer. Early Trends: He also met Alys George (19142003), an English girl who came to visit her sister Christobel in 1938. Her last husband, Dr. MD Taseer is a member of PWA. Alys had been a member of the British Communist Party since the age of 16, working as secretary to the powerful Indian Nationalist V. K. Krishna Menon (1896-47) in the Free India Movement in Britain. When World War II broke out in 1939, she was unable to return to England and settled in Amritsar, where she fell in love with Faiz. It was during this period of the 1930s that Faiz began to develop long-term connections with workers and agricultural organizations in the Punjab. In addition to his university teaching and professional work, he edited the Adab-e- Latif magazine, which published his first important works on Urdu literature and writing theory. Faiz Ahmed Faiz Association with Taseer: Faiz’s former colleague and brother from MAO College, Dr MD Taseer, was also in Delhi during the war. Moreover, writers like Saadat Hasan Manto, Mohammad Sannaullah Dar Meeraji and Krishan Chander are actors and intellectuals of Indian News AS Patras Bokhari and form the basis of its rise level during the critical war years. Faiz’s first book of poetry, Naqsh-e-Faryadi, was published in 1942 or 1943. He won the (Army) award in 1944 and retired. Following the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, Faiz Ahmed Faiz took over as editor of the liberal British newspaper Pakistan Times. The newspaper, along with several others, is owned by Progressive Papers Limited, a conglomerate founded in the early 1940s by prominent left-wing politician Mian Iftikharuddin and a group of conservatives. Apart from working as the editor of this article. Faiz was also appointed as the editor of the Urdu daily Imroze, but Faiz’s appointment was arranged by Chiragh Hasan Hasrat (1904-1955). While editing these two newspapers, Faiz Ahmed Faiz attacked the government of Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan (18951951), especially on the issue of Pakistan’s relationship with the Nation and the country’s mild problems with relations between the Americans and the United States. Marriage of Faiz Ahmed Faiz: In October 1941, Dr. Taseer’s hotel in Srinagar. Their wedding was officiated by Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah (19051982), who would later prove to be one of the most important politicians in the history of Jammu and Kashmir today. The ceremony followed an informal family gathering attended by family members and guests including poets Josh and Majaz. In 1942, daughter Salima and in 1945 daughter Moneeza were born. In 1940, Faiz was appointed lecturer of English at Haley Business College in Lahore, a position he held until mid-1941 before his marriage. According to his close friend and English translator Victor Kiernan (1913-2009), when the Nazis invaded Russia in June 1941,Faiz Ahmed Faiz left this post and joined the British Indian Army. We will be greeted by British soldiers dressed as lieutenant colonels in the Lahore squares and we will return our salute solemnly. Although Faiz joined the army in Lahore and started working in the health department, he soon became a social worker and editor of the Roman Army News (Fauji Akhbar), previously assigned to Intelligence Worker N.M. Fast work. Poet of struggling East: In articles published by Russia’s “Pravda” and “Izvestia”,Faiz Ahmed […]
