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Faiz Ahmed Faiz (فيض احمد فيض),
(1984 - 1911) is considered by many to be a poet in the great tradition of Urdu
poets like Ghalib and Iqbal. He was born in Sialkot, in the Punjab of
pre-independence India (now Pakistan). After the partition of 1947, he decided
to live in Pakistan, and died in Lahore. Faiz was a member of the Anjuman
Tarraqi Pasand Mussanafin-e-Hind (Progressive Writers' Movement), and an avowed
Marxist. In 1962 he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union.
In the 1930s Faiz Ahmed Faiz married Alys Faiz, a British woman. They had two
daughters. Alys Faiz's influence on Faiz's life and poetry is reputed to have
been great.
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Bol
bol ki lab aazaad hai.n tere
bol ki lab aazaad hai.n tere
bol zabaa.N ab tak terii hai
teraa sutawaa.N jism hai teraa
bol ki jaa.N ab tak terii hai
dekh ke aaha.ngar kii dukaa.N me.n
tu.nd hai.n shole surKh hai aahan
khulane lage quffalo.n ke dahaane
phailaa har ek zanjiir kaa daaman
bol ye tho.Daa waqt bahot hai
jism-o-zabaa.N kii maut se pahale
bol ki sach zi.ndaa hai ab tak
bol jo kuchh kahane hai kah le
[sutawaa.N=well built; aaha.ngar=blacksmith; tu.nd=sharp (here it means
bright);]
[aahan=iron; quffalo.n ke dahaane=keyhole]
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