Syad Ahmad Shah (1931–2000), who acquired the pen name of Faraz, came to be known as Ahmad Faraz as a writer. He was born Nov. Shehra, although his ancestral place was Kohat.
He studied at Islamiya College Kohat,Adwards College Peshawar,and Peshawar University, from which he got his degrees of M.A. in Urdu and M.A. in Persian.He wrote his poetry under the anonym Faraz. Ahmad Faraz as a writer,
He professional the military role and coup in the country and was displaced by the military dictators.
Early life:
He was the son of Syad Muhammad Shah Bark. His brother is Masood Kawasar, an ex-governor of Khybar Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Faraz had earlier moved to Peshawar from Kohat district with his family.
During his college life, the two poets Faiz Ahmad Faiz and Ali Sardar Jafri influenced him and became faraz role models.
Literery work:
Ahmad Faraz as a writer, is attributable with writing Pas Andaaz, Sub Awazain Meri,sub Khuwab Gul, Jana Jana, and Gazal Bahana Karan. He worked as a lacturer at Islamia College in Peshawar.
Career:
Singers like Mahndi Hassan, Noor Jehan, Gulam Ali, Pankaj Udhas,Jagjit Singh, and Rona Laila greatly fashionable his poetry by singing his ghazals, films, and live concerts.
Ahmad Faraz served as chairman of the National Books Foundation in Islamabad, Pakistan.
He began his career as a producer on radio in Pakistan. Faraz disapproved of the military dictatorship in Pakistan and expressed himself unreservedly, for which he was inactive.
On his release, he desirable to live in a self-imposed exile in Europe and Canada for six years. Back home,
he took up senior positions of administrative nature as habitant director of Pakistan, national center, and subsequently supervisor of Acedmy Adabiyat Pakistan.
Awards:
Ahmad Faraz was first awarded the sitara-e-imtiyaz by the government of Pakistan and then the hilal-e-imtiyaz in 2014 by the then president of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf.
He returned this award two years later, in 2006, as a means of protest against the actions of the Musharraf polity.
Faraz received several awards. Some of these include the Adamji Award, the Abaseen Award, the Kamal-e-Fun Award, and the Halal-e-Imtiyaz Award, to which he returned, registering his displeasure with the country’s governance.
He was decorated with the Hilal-e-Pakistan Award by the government of Pakistan posthumously.
Quotes:
“Kisi ko ghar se nikalte hi mil gayi manzil
Koi hamari tarhan umr bhar safr me raha.”
“Bohat ajeeb hain ye bandishen muhabbat ki
Naa usne qaid me rakha naa hum fraar hue.”
“Suna hai log usse ankh bhar ke dekhty hain.
So uske shehr me kuch din thehar ke dekhte hain.”
“Bin maange hi mil jati hai tabeerain kisi ko “Faraz.”
Koi khali hath reh jata hai hazaron duaon ke bad.”
“Tum takkalluf ko bhi ikhlas samajhte ho,” Faraz”
Dost hutaa nahi har hath milane wala.”
“Bandagi humne chhod di hai “Faraz”
Kya kren log jb khuda hu jain. “
“Merey jazbat se wakif hai mera kalam,” said Faraz.
Main pyar likhon tu tera naam likh jata hai.
Poetry:
Faraz started writing poetry while he was still a young college student. He appear as a ghazal poet with an individual signature of his own. Even while he drew open the traditional subject of love and romance,
he also wrote about his age in his poetry with all its despairs and disappointments and produced some of the finest instance of resistance poetry. He was a prolific poet, with several anthologies to his credit. these include:
Books:
Tanha Tanha
Dard-e-Aashob
Janan janan
Shubkhoon
Merey Khwab, Reza Reza
Beaawara Gali Kochoon main
Nabeena shar me aaeena
Pus Andaz Mausam
Khwab-e-Gul preshan hai
His translations of poetry are included in Sub Awazain meri hain. He also put together a selection from the poetry of Kunwar Mahinder Singh Bedi in Ai Ishq Janoon Pesha. His kulliyat appeared with the inculsive title of Shahr-e-Sukhan Aaraasta hai.
Death and legacy:
Earlier in 2008, after a fall in Baltimore, Maryland, there were false rumors of his death while he was being treated in a Chichago hospital. But he was able to return to his homeland, Pakistan.
Later, Ahmad Faraz died of kidney failure, as confirmed by his son Shibli Faraz, in a private hospital in Islamabad on August 25, 2008. His funeral was held on the evening of August 26 among many admirers of the government official at H-8 Graveyard, Islamabad, Pakistan.
