Table Of ContentO City of Lights
F a iz A h m e d F a iz
Selected Poetry and Biographical Notes
Translations by
D aud K amal and K halid H asan
Selected & Edited by
Khalid H asan
O X FO R D
UNIVERSITY PRESS
OXFORD
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp
Oxford University Press is. a department of the University of Oxford.
It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship,
and education by publishing worldwide in
Oxford New York
Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi
Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi
New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto
with offices in
Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece
Guatemala Hurigafy Italy Japan South Korea Poland Portugal
Singapore Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Vietnam
Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press
in the UK and in certain other countries
© Oxfdrd University Press 2006
The moral rights of die author have been asserted
First published 2006
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated,
stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means,
without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press.
Enquiries concerning reproduction should be sent to
Oxford University Press at the address below.
This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way
of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated
without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover
other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition
including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-547330-8
ISBN-10: 0-19-547330-2
Cover design by K. B. Abro
Typeset in Times
Printed in Pakistan by
Kagzi Printers, Karachi.
Published by r
Ameena Saiyid, .Oxford University Press
No. 38, Sector 15, Korangi Industrial Area, PO Box 8214
Karachi-7490(f, Pakistan.
To the memory of
FAIZ AHMED FAIZ
poet, humanist, patriot, revolutionary
CONTENTS
Editor's Note xv
Facsimile of Intesaab xvii
Part I: By and About Faiz
• Faiz Ahmed Faiz on Daud Kamal 3
• Faiz - A Summing Up 4
• Faiz on His Boyhood and Youth 13
• Faiz - A Personal Memoir 19
• Faiz on Faiz 36
• A Conversation with Faiz ' 39
• Conversations with Faiz 51
• Faiz Looks Back 58
Part II: Poetry
• The Unicorn and the Dancing Girl 67
• Love’s Captives 72
• Attic 73
• Ascent 74
• Translations by Daud Kamal 75
• Translations by Khalid Hasan 185
Chronology 289
viii CONTENTS
Translations by Daud Kamal
1. Do Not Grieve 76
2. Paris 78
3. The Gamble of Love 80
4. Evening, Be Kind 82
5. Wash the Blood 86
6. What Should We Do 88
7. Nimbus 92
8. The Curve of Memory 94
9. Elysium 96
10. Day and Night 98
11. Captivity 100
12. The Morning of Freedom, August 1947 102
13. The Last Letter 106
14. This is the Moment to Mourn Time 108
15. Remembrance 112
16. A Nocturnal Rhapsody 114
17. What Will Be, Will Be 116
18. You Think . . . 118
19. The Flowers have All Withered 120
20. A Lover to His Beloved 122
21. The Moment of Ultimate Betrayal 124
22. The Leningrad Cemetery 126
23. Why Pray for Eternal Life? 128
24. When in Your Sea Eyes 130
25. A Prison Evening 132
26. A Few Days More 134
27. The Hurricane of Remorse 136
28. A Letter from Prison 138
29. We, The Poets 142
30. Lullaby for a Palestinian Child 144
31. Stay With Me 148
32. Loneliness 150
33. Speak . . . 152
34. Tyrant 154
35. Victim 156
36. Voice from the Unknown 158
37. The Massacre of Beirut 160
38. For the Palestinian Martyrs 4 162
CONTENTS IX
39. Do Not Ask 164
40. Scene 166
41. Peking 168
42. Sinkiang 170
43. Song 172
44. Visitors 176
45. The Rain of Stones 178
46. Supplication 180
47. Dogs 182
Translations by Khalid Hasan
48. 0 City of Lights! 186
49. Offering 188
50. Pain’ll come on Soft Feet 190
51. An Elegy for the Rosenbergs 194
52. For the Iranian Students 198
53. To the Streets of my Land 202
54. Memory 206
55. All that I have 208
56. Grieve Not 210
57. Let me Think 212
58. A Memory 216
59. Iqbal 218
60. Colours the Heart Knows 220
61. Elegy for a Brother 222
62. My Heart my Traveller 224
63. All the Flowers have Wilted 226
64. A Lover to his Beloved 228
65. We shall Overcome 230
66. O Earth of my Land 234
67. Looking Back 236
68. Supplicants at Hope’s Door 238
69. The City Viewed from Here 240
70. The Dance of Death 242
71. Sadness at Dawn 244
72. The Day Death Comes 246
73. Union 248
74. The Window 252
X CONTENTS
75. Africa Come Back 254
76. Love Song 256
77. Sajjad Zaheer, an Elegy 258
78. Blackout 260
79. The Well of Loneliness 262
80. Quatrain 264
81. This Crop of Hope 266
82. Heart Attack 268
83. Elegy for a Soldier 270
84. I Look for a Word 272
85. Prayer 274
86. Questions 276
87. To the Children of My Land 278
88. Alone in the Night 280
89. Getting Across ' 282
90. On Return from Dhaka 286
77.....................................................................................................f l f J l f -I
79..................................................................................................................._r
81............................................ J y _r
83.............................................................................................._r
87............................................................................................h)f)Qc^O'A - d
89......................................................... ( ^ /l/ -'I
93........................................................................................... J /
95..................................................................................................................-A
97............................................................................................_<)
99........................................................................................................_!♦
101...................................................................................................
103........................................................................................................-ir
107..........................................................................................................-ir
109.....................................................................................-H’’
113.....................................................................................................................jI -«*
115..........................................................................................................^ y ' -ii
117............................................................................................
119.................................................................. J / -IA
121.......................................................................................t-j\s£L\#/i)]£ _U
123............................. ___________________________-r*
125............................. £-')\eU\f - n
xii___________________________ CONTENTS______________________________
127...........................................................................................d frjftiifc fl ~rr
129....................... J y ~rr
131...............................................................................d~ 6/C'^>‘ ~r<r
133..........................................................................................................................._ra
135......................................................................................._!c/(f (S/Ji\3ijJS> _ n
137...........................................................................................................................-U.
139.......................................................................................................Vjfie-JW ) ~r\
143......................................... J j>/& -M
145...........................................................................................................................jr*
149............................................................................................................>O i/l
151...........................................................................................................................jlj? jr r
153............................................ Js. _ rr
155...........................................................................................................................~rr
157............................................ (&• jro
159................ w>^_u ,r i
161...........................................................................................................................JTC
163................................................... ~rA>
165..........................................................................................................................._r*
167..................................................................................:.............................jp*
169...............................................................................................................-H
171......................................................................................’.__________J iifc ~rr
173..............................................................................................:......,.____.r r
177..........................................................................................................................._(r(r
179................................. J i'jA & y if' -fa
181......................................................................... Lfl; >M
