Saturday, July 9, 2011
Khaleequr Rahman: The Life of Faiz saheb and his contributions to Ur...
Khaleequr Rahman: The Life of Faiz saheb and his contributions to Ur...: "Faiz Ahmed Faiz does not need an introduction. Urdu speaking masses knows him very well. He is remembered for his courage, ethics, and Urd..."
Khaleequr Rahman: Aiwan-e-Shaji
Khaleequr Rahman: Aiwan-e-Shaji: "Prince Shahamat Jah Bahadur Aiwan-e-Shaiji was founded about eighteen years back by Prince Nawab Mir Shahamat Jah Bahadur in the fond and l..."
Aiwan-e-Shaji
Prince Shahamat Jah Bahadur
Aiwan-e-Shaiji was founded about eighteen years back by Prince Nawab Mir Shahamat Jah Bahadur in the fond and loving memory of his father Prince Mauzam Jah Bahadur Shaji. Prince Mauzam Jah Bahadur Shaji is the son of Nizam the VII. Prince Mauzam Jah Bahadur is also popularly known as Shaji. Shaji was his taqallus. He was a great poet besides being a great human being. His love for the urdu language and the poetry made Prince Shaji a great poet himself. His poetry reflects the pain of losing the dynasty and the subsequent coping up with the changes that were made part of life as a matter of destiny. He never compromised on his principles and the self respect and till his last breath lived his life on his terms and has always spread the very strong message of royalty with a commoner. He always treated hindus and muslims as his two eyes.
Prince Shahmat Jah reading his kalaam. Seen in the Pic are Khaleequr Rahman, Jb Aslam Farshori, Janab Raees Akhter saheb and others
Prince Shahamat Jah Bahadur is carrying on the legacy of his great father Prince Mauzam Jah Bahadur Shaji and inspite of his very busy schedule, he makes it a point to hold the exclusive mushairas in Aiwan e Shaji every quarter. My father Late Janab Khaleelur Rahman saheb M.P. was associated with Aiwa-e-Shahji since its inception. He has patronised Aiwan-e-Shaji alongwith Janab Asif Pasha saheb former Law Minister and Dr.Syed Abdul Mannan saheb.
As per the traditions of the Aiwan-e-Shaji, an exclusive Mushaira was held on July 4, 2011 at Aiwan-e-Shaji which was attended by the invited audience and the poets. The Mushiara started at about 8.00 PM with the lighting of the Shama by the founder of Aiwan-e-Shaji Prince Shahmat Jah Bahadur. The Chief Guest for the Mushaira was Janab Noorul Haq Quadri, former Chairman, Urdu Academy. The Mushaira was covered by the Doordarshan Hyderabad and was shown on July 8th at 6.00 Pm and repeat telecast at 12.00 P.M. again. The eminent personalities such as Janab Imtiaz Ali Taj saheb, Dy.Director Dorrdarshan, Janab Zia Quadri, Publisher Rashtriya Sahara, Khaleequr Rahman, Senior Congress Leader, Janab Salahuddin Nayyar, eminent poet attended as the Chief Guests.
Prince Shahmat Jah Bahadur, Khaleequr Rahman, NorrulHaq Quadri and Raees Akhter
The Mushaira started with the royal traditions and the eminent poets who attended and said their kalaam included Janab Raees Akhter saheb, Janab Salahuddin Nayyar saheb, Janab Aslam Farshori, Janab Saleem Abidi saheb, Janab Masroor abidi, Janab Farooq Arifi, Janab Zia Quadri saheb, Janab Tayyab Quadri and others.
Khaleequr Rahman: The Life of Faiz saheb and his contributions to Ur...
Khaleequr Rahman: The Life of Faiz saheb and his contributions to Ur...: "Faiz Ahmed Faiz does not need an introduction. Urdu speaking masses knows him very well. He is remembered for his courage, ethics, and Urd..."
The Life of Faiz saheb and his contributions to Urdu Language
Faiz Ahmed Faiz does not need an introduction. Urdu speaking masses knows him very well. He is remembered for his courage, ethics, and Urdu poetry. The truth is that the masses can never value people like him enough. However, the name of Faiz Ahmed Faiz is immortal in the annals of history now due to his contributions to the Urdu language and the society in general.
Faiz Ahmed Faiz was born in a small village near Sialkot in 1911. He was born in a very noble family. Following the traditions of the noble families of those times, Faiz was first sent to a religious institution for basic religious education. His formal education did not begin until he was 10 years old. Faiz was born to a very loving family. In his autobiography, he shared the details of his first day at school. Faiz was dressed in his best clothes and accessories. His sisters made up his hair. He was sent to school with a servant and in the best of the pull carts available at home.
From his early childhood, Faiz Ahmed Faiz was an ardent Urdu reader. In fact, he loved the Urdu poetry. Faiz Ahmed Faiz was only in the 10th standard when he wrote some excellent Urdu verses. Although the quality of the verses was, good but one of his mentors told him that it would be better for the quality and scope of his Urdu poetry if he waits for some years before attempting at the poetry again.
Therefore, Faiz Ahmed Faiz did not write anything up until the completion of his education. Faiz Ahmed Faiz was an excellent student. He did masters in Arabic. He also did masters in English literature. In his masters exam once Faiz's teacher awarded him with 120 marks out of 100. When someone asked him that why he awarded a student 120 marks out of hundred; he simply replied, "Because I could not give more!" Such was the extent of Faiz's expertise in English language. Nevertheless, it did not make him break ties with Urdu.
Faiz Ahmed Faiz was born in a small village near Sialkot in 1911. He was born in a very noble family. Following the traditions of the noble families of those times, Faiz was first sent to a religious institution for basic religious education. His formal education did not begin until he was 10 years old. Faiz was born to a very loving family. In his autobiography, he shared the details of his first day at school. Faiz was dressed in his best clothes and accessories. His sisters made up his hair. He was sent to school with a servant and in the best of the pull carts available at home.
From his early childhood, Faiz Ahmed Faiz was an ardent Urdu reader. In fact, he loved the Urdu poetry. Faiz Ahmed Faiz was only in the 10th standard when he wrote some excellent Urdu verses. Although the quality of the verses was, good but one of his mentors told him that it would be better for the quality and scope of his Urdu poetry if he waits for some years before attempting at the poetry again.
Therefore, Faiz Ahmed Faiz did not write anything up until the completion of his education. Faiz Ahmed Faiz was an excellent student. He did masters in Arabic. He also did masters in English literature. In his masters exam once Faiz's teacher awarded him with 120 marks out of 100. When someone asked him that why he awarded a student 120 marks out of hundred; he simply replied, "Because I could not give more!" Such was the extent of Faiz's expertise in English language. Nevertheless, it did not make him break ties with Urdu.
Faiz's language of choice, Urdu is associated not with any specific province, but with the Mughal courts of the 18th century, where it gained royal patronage as a literary language. Faiz excelled at the love poetry, his love poems are immediately expressive and abound in fabulous images, with flashes of forbidden love, particularly poignant in societies where people are killed for romantic liaisons even today.
Even his harshest protest poems are nuanced with a wider kind of love and longing. His signature works in free verse also employ the specific devices of a split voice or the idea of divided love, in which romantic passion transforms, often without warning, into a tormented love of humanity; from a soporific romantic trope into an unsparing picture of harrowing poverty, unbearable loss and self-obsessed leadership. Yet Faiz very rarely sacrificed lyricism for rhetorical effect.
Unlike the people of those times, Faiz chose to marry by choice. He married Elis Faiz, a very noble French woman. Elis Faiz proved to be an extremely good and understanding wife. She spent most of her life in Pakistan, even after Faiz's death. She was fluent in spoken Urdu. Elis and Faiz had two daughters, Muneeza and Saleema Hashmi. Both of them are popular personalities today.
Faiz Ahmed Faiz spent a lot of time in prison too in different eras of different rulers. In total, Faiz Ahmed Faiz spent 9 years in prison. In the times of prison, Faiz produced some excellent poetry.
Faiz Ahmed Faiz spent a lot of time in prison too in different eras of different rulers. In total, Faiz Ahmed Faiz spent 9 years in prison. In the times of prison, Faiz produced some excellent poetry.
Faiz was the first Asian poet to receive the Lenin Peace Prize, awarded by the Soviet Union in 1963. He was also nominated for the Nobel Prize shortly before his death in 1984.
Faiz Ahmed Faiz was a great man. People like him are born in centuries. He will be always remembered for standing up against tyrant rulers, and for his contributions to the Urdu language.
Hazaron saal nargis apni bay noori pe roti hai
Bari mushkil se hota hai Chaman me deedawar Paida
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