Revisiting the Minaret of Light: Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s Peaceful Political Activism as A Landmark of Revolution in the Imperial World:
Keywords:
Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Poetry, Political Activism, Content AnalysisAbstract
Abstract:
The world is moving towards progression as time passes, acclimating to the
general system for living construes that the writers need to work and hazard
more on existing social issues to create scholastic workmanship. A common
query in this regard is how writers express their hearts while observing
their present social order situations? This paper deals with this solicitation
by looking courses where the twentieth century poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz
expressed his opinion over the unjust system of his time. Particularly, this
paper addresses the concept of peaceful political activism of Faiz in his poet
with a qualitative research design using content analysis as a method to
analyze the text of Faiz’s poems. Therefore, this paper attempts to look at
the use of words and phrases used by Faiz to indicate his political thoughts
in order to bring tranquility in the common masses. Along these lines, this
paper hopes to include the insightful works of a dynamic poet Faiz with a
new investigation through the analysis of his poems that reflect peace and
1Assistant Professor in English department at Sardar Bahadur Khan Women’s University
Quetta. Pakistan. Email: samanmkn@gmail.com
2Assistant Professor, Department of Pakistan Studies Centre, University of Balochistan,
Quetta, Pakistan. Email: nazirkasi7@gmail.com
3Assistant Professor in English Department, Sardar Bahadur Khan Women’s University
(SBKWU) Quetta. Pakistan.
Email: durri_86@yahoo.com118
harmony in the imperial world. The paper infers that Faiz lived in an era of
dictatorship when common masses were not allowed to speak of their rights.
However, though Faiz being sensitive, expressed his thoughts against
injustice in hidden words and phrases. He used his power of pen to create
an ideal world of peace for all humans. Therefore, he is usually called the
Minaret of light and his poetry can be termed as a revolution in the presentday imperial world.
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