Faiz was also a Pakistan nationalist, and often said, "Purify your hearts, so you can save the country.". According to Muslim tradition, he learned Arabic, Persian, Urdu language and the Quran. Following the Muslim South Asian tradition, his family directed him to study Islamic studies at the local Mosque to be oriented to the basics of religious studies by Maulana Hafiz Muhammad Ibrahim Mir Sialkoti, an Ahl-i Hadith scholar. His father Sultan Muhammad Khan was a barrister who worked for the British Government, and an autodidact who wrote and published the biography of Amir Abdur Rahman, an Emir of Imperial Afghanistan.
His home was often the scene of a gathering of local poets and writers who met to promote the literacy movement in his native province. Faiz hailed from an academic family that was well known in literary circles. Personal life Early life įaiz Ahmad Faiz was born into a Jatt family on 13 February 1911, in Kala Qader (present-day Faiz Nagar), District Sialkot, Punjab, British India. 4 Plays, music, and dramatic productions on Faiz.3.1 Accolades and international recognition.2.5 Return to Pakistan and government work.Faiz's literary work was posthumously publicly honoured when the Pakistan Government conferred upon him the nation's highest civil award, Nishan-e-Imtiaz, in 1990. His work remains influential in Pakistan literature and arts. Faiz was an avowed Marxist, and he received the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union in 1962. įaiz was released after four years in prison and went on to become a notable member of the Progressive Writers' Movement and eventually an aide to the Bhutto administration, before being self-exiled to Beirut. After Pakistan's independence, Faiz became the editor to The Pakistan Times and a leading member of the Communist Party before being arrested in 1951 as an alleged part of conspiracy to overthrow the Liaquat administration and replace it with a left-wing government. He went on to serve in the British Indian Army. īorn in Punjab, British India, Faiz went on to study at Government College and Oriental College. įaiz was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and won the Lenin Peace Prize. Outside literature, he has been described as "a man of wide experience" having been a teacher, an army officer, a journalist, a trade unionist and a broadcaster. He was one of the most celebrated writers of the Urdu language in Pakistan. Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE, 1945)įaiz Ahmad Faiz MBE NI (13 February 1911 – 20 November 1984) was a Pakistani poet, and author in Urdu and Punjabi language.
Sialkot District, Punjab, British India (present-day Faiz Qader, Punjab, Pakistan)īritish Indian (1911–1947) Pakistani (1947–1984)
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