{"title":"FAIZ AHMED FAIZ","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"love-and-revolution-faiz-ahmed-faiz-ali-madeeh-hashmi","title":"Love and Revolution: Faiz Ahmed Faiz (Biography) - Ali Madeeh Hashmi","description":"\u003cdiv title=\"Page 11\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the author: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI tried, while writing this book, to follow the method of Faiz himself—that of locating a person, their life and all of its many facets within their era. To make the person’s life a part of the larger life of their times. This is what I have understood of Karl Marx’s method of ‘historical materialism’, a philosophy and an ideology which guided Faiz throughout his life. It helped that Faiz \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esahib \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003elived in such ‘interesting times’ as the Chinese curse goes. The First World War, the Great Depression, India’s struggle for independence, the Second World War, the creation of Pakistan (and its later dismemberment into Pakistan and Bangladesh), Faiz lived through them all. He also tried, to the best of his ability, to engage with these world issues and, in the process, became one of its most eloquent spokespersons for a whole generation, especially in the Indo-Pak subcontinent. The cataclysmic events following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of his beloved USSR happened a few years after he died, but I suspect he foresaw at least some of what was to come. And unlike what the cheerleaders of Capitol predicted following the destruction of the ‘Red Menace’, the world of the 21\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003est \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecentury has only become more polarized, more dangerous and more uncertain.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 13\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 14\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGovernments come and go, so do wars and empires. Emperors, kings and presidents, too, rise and fall with the times but through it all humankind’s desire to rise to greater nobility and perfection persists. And poets, the ‘unacknowledged legislators of the world’ as Shelley said, are our guides and fortune-tellers. They peer into the human heart and see what lies in its depths, they can discern what lies beyond the heavens, and this is why they have always been revered and feared in equal measure. It is essential for a poet \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eto understand and reflect something universal about the human \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003econdition if they are to rise above the mundane. And great poetry requires much more. The ability to perceive and sing about the universality of all human life, both throughout history as well as in the context of the cosmos. And if one can wed this depth and breadth of vision to Love (with a capital ‘L’), as Faiz did, one can perhaps begin to touch greatness. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 14\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut this is an endless endeavor, as is the human struggle itself. Faiz wrote about this repeatedly. One human being, no matter how talented or hardworking, is in the end just one link in a vast chain stretching back through the mists of time all the way to the origin of Life itself. Ultimately we are all, as Newton remarked, ‘standing on the shoulders of giants’. I am a bit more fortunate than others, perhaps, to be standing on the shoulders of a giant of poetry and literature in the twentieth century and, while I am acutely aware of my own shortcomings both as a writer and as a human being, I am happy that it fell to me to bring the life of Faiz \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esahib \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eto a wider audience. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAli Madeeh Hashmi\u003cbr\u003eLahore, March 2021\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTitle: Love and Revolution: Faiz Ahmed Faiz\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAuthor: Ali Madeeh Hashmi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSubject: Memoirs, Biography\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN: 9693534050\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNumber of Pages: 292\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYear: 2022\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sang-e-meel Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43534352482493,"sku":"9693534050","price":1800.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0531\/3065\/7981\/files\/Love_and_Revolution_Faiz_Ahmed_Faiz_Biography_-_Ali_Madeeh_Hashmi.jpg?v=1722951059"}],"url":"https:\/\/naisoch.com.pk\/collections\/faiz-ahmed-faiz.oembed","provider":"Nai soch","version":"1.0","type":"link"}