The Best of Faiz

By Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poetry maintains to motivate and enthral modern readers. the easiest of Faiz involves Shiv ok. Kumar’s translations of Faiz’s most well liked Urdu poems into English. The gathered poems contain ‘Mujh Se Pehli Si’, ‘Subhe Azadi’, ‘Sochne Do’ and ‘Bol’. This variation additionally incorporates a translator’s foreword and the unique poems in nastaliq and devanagari scripts.

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Quatrain no longer a glimpse of you—no observe, no message no floor for solace, but desire unbounded. craving for the cherished, the eye’s temper, pain’s hue—don’t you question me something at the present time, the heart’s brimful with melancholy. night It’s as if each one tree is a temple— ruined, unlit, previous— looking, for lengthy, justification for its decadence. each terrace ripped aside, each door at its final breath. The sky a clergyman, sits lower than each one terrace, physique smeared with ash, brow hued with vermilion, head drooping, mute—nobody is aware due to the fact that whilst. It’s as if there’s a few magican in the back of the reveal who has flung around the sky a internet of magic. So heavily associated is time’s hem with that of the night that it may well by no means fade away, nor darkness ever descend— now tonight won't ever cross, nor sunrise ever holiday. The sky is propped up at the wish that the spell might quickly be over, the chain of silence snap, time’s hem come unstuck— that a few conch might blare out for aid, a few ankle-bells communicate out, a few idol come alive, a few dusky good looks unveil her face. Quatrain we're the enfeebled, what’s there to invite approximately our resources, O Censors. All that lifestyles has proffered us, we’re conserving up for scrutiny: within the hem a handful of the heart’s airborne dirt and dust, within the goblet the blood of yearning’s wine glance, right here we empty our hem, and the following we upturn the wine-glass. whilst Will ache stop? while will discomfort stop, O middle, whilst will the evening cross away? It used to be rumoured that she’d come; and it can quickly be sunrise. while will existence develop into blood, and tears develop into pearls? And while will you be heard, O my tearful eye? whilst will the plants bloom, and while will the tavern move heady? while will morning encourage verse, and while will night convey us jointly? No preacher, no ascetic, no counsellor, no murderer— how will it now fare with the enthusiasts on the town? How lengthy will I maintain searching for you, O my liked? while is that doomsday ordained, definitely you’d comprehend. This sufferer Breathless This sufferer breathless, why don’t you reclaim him? a wierd messiah are you, why don’t you healing him? Why is there no recompense for the aching evening of separation? Why is there no present for the sacrifice of love’s frenzy? Will you dispense justice after mankind is burnt up? when you are a real pass judgement on, why now not proclaim doomsday at the present time? name within the scar of discomfort, you discerners, to elevate the testimony of speech and feeling, and also you music-makers, why don’t you strike up the music? How lengthy will frenzy’s vow carry again its hand? O enthusiasts, why don’t you element to the collar torn? O Faiz, not anyone compels you to undergo the heart’s ravage; if she’s your heart’s enemy, why don’t you overlook her? finish of the Rain of Stones abruptly, this present day, sundered from my vision’s thread, lay splintered within the sky the solar and the moon. Now there’ll be no gentle or darkness at any place. Extinguished, after me, just like the center, is the trail of dedication— pals, how will it now fare with the caravan of ache? enable some other person now nurture the backyard of sorrow; neighbors, now has dried up the dew of the grieving eye, now stalled frenzy’s uproar, the rain of stones.

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