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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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Yaad
dasht-e-tanahaaii me.n ae jaan-e-jahaa.N larazaa.N hai
dasht-e-tanhaa_ii me.n ai jaan-e-jahaa.N larzaa.N hai.n
terii aavaaz ke saaye tere ho.nTho.n ke saraab
dasht-e-tanhaa_ii me.n duurii ke Khas-o-Khaak tale
khil rahe hai.n tere pahaluu ke saman aur gulaab
uTh rahii hai kahii.n qurbat se terii saa.Ns kii aa.Nch
apanii Khushbuu me.n sulagtii hu_ii maddham maddham
duur ufaq par chamakatii hu_ii qatraa qatraa
gir rahii hai terii dil_daar nazar kii shabnam
us qadar pyaar se ai jaan-e jahaaN rakkhaa hai
dil ke ruKhsaar pe is vaqt terii yaad ne haath
yuu.N gumaa.N hotaa hai garche hai abhii subah-e-firaaq
Dhal gayaa hijr kaa din aa bhii ga_ii vasl kii raat
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