Asrar-ul-Haq Majaaz :A Journey of Love, Hope and Revolution
Dr.Syed Ahmad Raza Abidi Assistant Professor Department of English G.S.S. Mahavidyalaya, Allahabad.
In Urdu the great poets Mir Ghalib, Dagh and Josh have sung of love in its different aspects and forms. The feeling of love is natural. It is found in every human heart. The poet is distinct for common human beings and feels keenly and acutely. Of all
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In this respect, Majaaz was the greatest romantic, for his love was built on the foundation of beauty and humanism. Majaaz, the poet of beauty, in his poem “Zhar-e-Husn” Declares, “Except Beauty everything is mortal”(Majaaz 160). Majaaz the great worshipper of beauty presents many aspects of woman. To him woman is a symbol of love, beauty, humanism and sacrifice. He takes delight in presentation of physical beauty, but he does not think woman a thing of physical pleasure only. His theory about woman is quite different from that of the Romantics. He wants to give woman her rightful place. On account of their revolutionary zeal, the romantic poets of England could not recognize her right place; they considered her only on physical level. He wants that woman should walk shoulder to shoulder with man on every front in life. It was her real place which Majaaz recognized and propagated in his poems. In his life time, he saw many great woman as Ismat Ghugtai, Razia Sajjad Zahir, Dr. Rasheed Jahan, Sarojini Naidu, Vijaya Laxmi etc., who were playing important roles in the battle of life. Majaaz’s woman is not imaginary or ethereal. She is fleshy and lives in this world. She is the idealized picture of womanhood. Majaaz takes delight in the presentation of physical beauty of woman. In the earlier stage of his poetic career, Majaaz exhibits love for physical aspects of woman. His nazm “Numaish” presents an innocent picture of a young lover who is not acquainted with the realities, the pangs and anxieties of love. He recites this nazm in his student life in 1931, as he was much impressed with Aligarh exhibition. He is not the traditional lover. He changes his ways and presents many forms and the beautiful body of woman from different
The early Islamic empire expanded using three methods. These methods included military conquest, political means, and financial incentives. First, the Islamic empire expanded through military force. According to the document A: battle of Yarmuck, the battle was fierce and bloody. 24,000 Muslims took part and 70,000 Greeks were put to death.
She is describing how men want things done their way and women who do not cater to their needs get punished. The men never take responsibilities for their actions towards their women. This entire poem signifies how women bend over backward for their husband and get no rewards or praises in the end. Sor Juana is considered a feminist because she is in favor of women being well educated and having the right to pursue their dreams. Sor Juana turned down several suitors who approached her with marriage proposals.
The leader that everyone referred to as Mohammad had various things to offer his followers.(1) ~insert an opinion on this topic~ According to documents 1 and 2 he offered things to his followers and the leaders of Christian Arab tribes.(2) Document 1 states that , “Believe or else pay tribute [money]… obey the Lord and His Apostle [Mohammad], and he will defend you. ”(3) This shows that you are only offered something if you believe what he believes or believe in him.(4) In document 2 it is to be said that if you are a Muslim and you follow him you will be brought into the garden of paradise unfortunately if you do not you will be punished.(5)
Society, for centuries, has revered poetry for its beauty, philosophy, and unique capability to reveal truth to the individual. One of the most prominent time periods that display society’s acclaim for poetry was within the Romantic period. Romanticism, according to the New World Encyclopedia, was “an artistic and intellectual movement that ran from the late eighteenth century through the nineteenth century. It stressed strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience” (New World Encyclopedia, 2015). Romanticism glorified art, poetry, music, and nature.
When the word love is heard, what comes to mind? Is it that special connection once shared with a long lost lover? Or maybe it wasn’t a lover at all but a friend, who not only loved you for you, but showed you how to love yourself. In the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns,author Khaled Hosseini portrays love in many different ways. Three vital themes concerning love outshines many of the themes throughout this novel.
Mahfouz, as well as Said, shared a direct contact with the Arabian lifestyle because they grow up in that society. Mahfouz’s novel depicts the real world with the touches of the supernatural and mystic, but as a form of evil in the world not as exotic and uncivilized as the Europeans did. Mahfouz’s Arabian Nights and Days “takes new depths and insights as it picks up from where the ancient story ends” (Fayez 229). Mahfouz uses the Arabian Nights tales and Shahryar’s and Scheherazade’s society to portray the contemporary social and political issues of his people. Mahfouz aims to show various thematic concerns of the people of the East than the early versions left out.
In the progressive modern world, the ancient mindset of men’s superiority exists in many societies. Women who are opposed to such ideology are, in some cases, perceived as rebellious when words such as feminism has come to acknowledgement for over a century. Through the struggles that the characters of A Thousand Splendid Suns faced in the patriarchal Afghani culture, Khaled Hosseini delivers his feminist ideas. For her whole life, Nana endured the troubles given by men, and she is one of the “fallen female warrior” of the novel because she fought against the oppression and lost, due to the unfortunate circumstances of her life. Mariam also suffered the torments imposed on her by the men in her life, sharing a similar fate as her mother, Nana, in a way.
The lyrical style of each these poems, along with their subject matter, help to suggest that in the midst of the suppression of our natural human rights (as suggested by philosophers like John Locke), we are to make our “song” known by practicing love in both our lives and the rest
They represent the plight which the Afghan women have been facing since ages. These characters give hope to the countless women who still suffer the dominance and hardships of the Afghan society. The actions of these characters symbolize their strength to endure things as they join together and retaliate against the man, and in turn the society, who has taken away their rights to live their lives according to their own choices. The ‘thousand splendid suns’ represent the thousands of Afghan women with immense potentialities who are still under the clutches of patriarchal domination and are forced to hide behind the walls. Khaled Hosseini has beautifully portrayed the cruel realities of the lives of Afghan women through Mariam and Laila and this is what separates A Thousand Splendid Suns from literary works that deal with Afghan women.
Written poetry is seen as more universal than personal as the reader, instead of the
This poem also comments on societies attitude towards the unemployed and people in a bad situation. It comments on societies apathy to bad situations experienced by others and disgust of disadvantaged and poor people. The poem reads like a list of all the things the person is supposed to follow, "eat with
Amir is the villain of The Kite Runner because he is greedy for Baba’s love, this leads to his disloyalty to Hassan and demonstrates his cowards because of his feelings of his guilt. Amir, although living a luxurious life feels something is missing, and it’s his father’s approval, he would do anything for it. After winning the kite tournament went to search for Hassan to see him surrounded by Assef and his two friends but, “Behind him, sitting on piles, of scraps and rubble, was the blue kite. [His] key to Baba’s heart” (71). All he cared about was the kite he cut in the tournament, he even sacrificed his best friend just for his father’s love.
The Seven Rays Theory, although esoteric in itself, contains the basic elements of the incarnation of the powers of consciousness. In other words, it is a psychological profile done from a spiritual perspective. The diagram illustrates the disposition of the seven rays or basic motivations (strength types) of a human psyche. THE SEVEN RAYS
Which is that beauty comes from within. His purpose is teaching the poet that in order to create true and inspiring art he must look deep inside of himself. He starts to develop this idea with an extended metaphor as he explains that even if you have come to your lowest point in life “you still have your childhood, that jewel beyond all price, that treasure house of memories” (3) to inspire you and give you life again. This statement shows that even when you have been beat up and are lost you still have your priceless jewels of your past. Memories are something so beautiful and priceless that can not be taken away from you, because it comes from within you.