Islamic Culture
Ahmad Faraz, A TributeSUKHAN dard ka ab kaha jaaye na (of pain cannot be spoken anymore), wrote Ahmad Faraz, the greatest Urdu poet since Faiz. His departure leaves Urdu poorer, and at a loss for words which he so elegantly wove into its ghazal and nazm for over half a century. If ghazal was all about talking to women, Faraz lived as its Casanova; if it was a medium for romance, he was its reigning deity for the young and old alike. In its contemporary form, as crafted by progressive poets in the last century, ghazal became the medium for equating grief over unrequited love with that borne by a people, a nation wronged, and Faraz stood head and shoulders above the many crowding the genre. Likewise his nazm revealed the humanist in him who informed the poet; his inspirations were the people and the values of a life lived in freedom and dignity, which he cherished for all.
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