When Faiz was Imprisoned

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dear foggy...your name might be foggy but you have clarity of thought. thanks for your insightful comments. many philosophers, poets and political activists used their solitary confinement in jails to create masterpieces...i am impressed and fascinated by that phenomenon...i and ali hashmi, a psychiatrist and a grandson of faiz ahmed faiz are planning to write more about faiz's life...sincerely sohail

After reading about Faiz in your article,i could not help but update myself on Depth psychology.i can ‘t help thinking that depth psychology is the ornament of a qualification that a psychotherapist can wear as the ultimate declaration to the world;proclaiming that his “brains� have developed to the highest perimeter, with which to appreciate the highest most sensitive form of human intellectual activity of the Arts.
but thinking of Faiz in prison, helped me to see that depth psychology can become an all powerful universally Acknowledged probe to help the psychotherapist reach the innards of any prisons that torture many a sensitive genius with gentle souls;a tool to empower the psychotherapist to set them free.for after all, all the talented inmates are not like Faiz.he did not need psychotherapy.he mastered his own self and will and came out a better man.this is a pure case of "Stone walls do not a prison make�....but the others lie in a shell of shock of physical torture exposing their sensitive brilliance in the uselessness of utter helplessness. they need psycho therapy to heal this wound of exposure.the poor gentle souls just wanted betterment for humanities’!! sake.theirs was a seamless vision.not patched with ugliness of either politics, creed,or money. and here these poor souls made enemies out of the powerful lot without even knowing!in understanding them (and their work which requires a big calibre of understanding) depth psychology is indeed therapeutic.we need more humanists and psychotherapists armed with depth psychology.

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Dear Ras, you are more than welcome. Keep up the good work. sincerely sohail

Khalid Sahib,

I really enjoyed this one.

Ras

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dear laddu, thanks for sharing the milestones of your sacred journey of self discovery. were there any personalities and writers that inspired you? how do you think other people can be inspired to leave the highway of tradition and follow the trail of their hearts?
by the way how old are you and where do you live?
affectionately
sohail

Sohail ji,

Faiz rejected the external God and found the Godliness inside himself........

He was a Prophet who did not want to be a Prophet.......like a Zen Guru......I am surprised that Pakistanis are yet to understand this secret of the hidden Imams like him.......

Sohail ji,

Let me tell you some secrets.

I was brought up in a very public schoolish surroundings.
I bowed down to the God without knowing who is bowing down and for what he needs to boe down to.
I revolted against the god.......and found myself.......I stayed away from home in seclusion , rejecting all wordly ties wandering the jungles, caves, mountains in search of myself......till I reached a place where I found myself in deep silence ......I became meditative and found joy in the meditative silence for quite some time........I dissolved all my desires...except for one.......the desire to be a Guru and a Prophet.........I am getting over that now.......


let me also tell you, that Prophet Mohammad did not cross that desire to be a prophet and his surrender to Allah was not perfect.

I can speak with authority from my own personal experiences.

Dear Sohail,
A very interesting read with valuable insights.
The ups and downs of movements, and how these
reflect on the lives of the main players in that
movement is a very interesting topic.
Keep writing..
Prashant

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dear laddu, i fully agree with you that most people are the outcome of social, religious and cultural conditioning and only a few can rise above it to see with their own eyes and think with their own minds. they are in a minority, a creative minority, living amongst traditional majority. what i am curious is how you developed such a personality to travel on the road less traveled? and how you cope when you are judged and criticized by the majority?
sincerely sohail

Sohail ji,

Let us be true to ourselves....before we proclaim these religious "truths".....Faiz brought back man his dignity and humanity without recourse to some imaginary Allah........

...is truth is provocative it is because it cleanses those dirty sludges implanted in our minds since childhood.....

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dear laddu....i want to ask you a friendly question. i am curious how you developed a provocative personality?
sincerely,
sohail

Compare Faiz with Mohammad and one can easily distinguish a real revolutionary from a charlatan!!

So, many think that paying lip service to Faiz and discussing him in seminars is the only thing Pakistanis can do about Faiz?

Faiz was a dynamite. The rest are all insignificant before him.

Pakistani momeens need to read more of Faiz instead of Quran.

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masadi mian,

..... if you are nice to dr shohail he might give you a discount ...... also if you keep this up he just might have you committed to an insane asylum where you can sing your looney tunes ........

human being is the most selfish of all the animals,all or any of his/her actions can be termed as selfish depending upon circumstances/situations.this applies to all human beings whether messenger of god or devil.purpoted letter as per which faiz doubts himself may please be quoted,but why in the first place such exalted non political person had to go to jail??