FIVE NEVER-HEARD-BEFORE-COUPLETS OF FAIZ

Faiz Ahmad Faiz was among the most celebrated and popular poets of Urdu. He faced political repression for his revolutionary views. He is acknowledged as a torchbearer of progressivism and modernism in Urdu poetry. Here are five couplets of Faiz that you may not have heard of or read before. You may read them below:

Love-afflicted I lay, why don’t you bring me a cure
What a healer are you, heal me for I adjure

I’m a lazy one, I’m not a Farhad
Who else in this city of dead than I

One may, or may not get, the desired wine in hell
But one would get rid of the counselor at least

Life is but a poor man’s cloak where one
Keeps sewing it with patches of pain

He’s coming; he’ll come; he’s on his way
Awake did I stay all the night for my day

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