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AHMAD FARAZ SHAYARI

Pakistani poet, only second to Faiz Ahmad Faiz in popularity. Rose to iconic stature powered by his seductively romantic and anti-establishment poetry.

muntazir kab se tahayyur hai teri taqrir ka

muntazir kab se tahayyur hai tirī taqrīr kā

baat kar tujh par gumāñ hone lagā tasvīr kā

raat kyā so.e ki baaqī umr kī niiñd uḌ ga.ī

ḳhvāb kyā dekhā ki dhaḌkā lag gayā tābīr kā

kaise paayā thā tujhe phir kis tarah khoyā tujhe

mujh sā munkir bhī to qaa.el ho gayā taqdīr kā

jis tarah bādal kā saaya pyaas bhaḌkātā rahe

maiñ ne ye aalam bhī dekhā hai tirī tasvīr kā

jaane kis aalam meñ tū bichhḌā ki hai tere baġhair

aaj tak har naqsh fariyādī mirī tahrīr kā

ishq meñ sar phoḌnā bhī kyā ki ye be-mehr log

jū-e-ḳhūñ ko naam de dete haiñ jū-e-shīr kā

jis ko bhī chāhā use shiddat se chāhā hai 'farāz'

silsila TuuTā nahīñ hai dard kī zanjīr kā

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