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Mohammad Ibrahim
Joyo
Gems
of Poetry
Tikhur on
the west bank of Sindhu is known for its great
poets and prose writers, Syed Imdad Hussaini
is the rarest gift, this town has given to
Sindh in the post-Pakistan period of its history
-Imdad's contribution in free verse are
the gems of his poetry, and his long poems are
reflecting the soul of Sindh and the spirit of
Sindhi people in their struggle for justice and
national rights & his poetry will remain as a
model and an ever-shining example, generation
after generation, and our poets will follow-him
as his contemporaries do. The people of Sindh
and the Sindhi Speaking people all around the
world read him, sing him & adore him, and keep
his couplets in their heart.
Rasool Bux Palijo
Sweet
Melodies
Imdad Hussaini's powerful
patriotic poetry has inspired Sindhi nation in
its long and arduous struggle for social and
spiritual emancipation.
With
the passage of time it gain social maturity and
deeper insight. Rooted in the Socio-Economic
sufferings of struggling humanity inhabiting the
global village. Voicing its deep feelings and
aspirations, and synthesizing the best elements
of the loftiest and noblest social ideas of our
epoch. It is free of the out-worn similes, the
over-worked poetic cliche’s , and the hackneyed
metaphor. His fresh, spontaneous and captivating
couplets and sweet melodies enchanted a
generation of lovers of Sindhi culture and
poetry.
Ghulam Rabbani
Agro
Sindhi will be Proud of Imdad Hussaini
Imdad Hussaini
was
born in a small village of Sindh, called Tikhur
which is famous for producing eminent poets and
prose writers, who enriched Sindhi literature in
the 20th Century What makes Imdad
distinct and distinguished from this galaxy of
writers & poets in Sindhi literature, is his own
unique style, diction and creative imagination.
Imdad is acknowledged to have inspired a
full new generation of poets and writers. Shaikh
Ayaz, the greatest poet of our times once told
me that:
It
is his considered opinion that among
his
junior contemporaries Imdad is the
truly creative poet, with a bright future.
Imdad, Tanveer and myself have
worked together for more than three decades to
foster the language and literature of Sindh. I
can therefore say with some confidence that I
never saw any ambiguity in his word and deed.
The future generation of Sindh will be proud of
Imdad Hussaini as a man and as a poet.
Siraj
But Sindh Shall Never Die!
It
is impossible to categorize a great poet. All
one can do is to count the blessings he bestows
on the language and its literature. Like Ayaz,
Imdad is not only a master craftsman, but
a true representative of the dreams of ordinary
Sindhi people. In a manner of speaking, he is a
folk poet - a people’s poet, but his poetry's
content and idiom is more sophisticated &
richer. Imdad has given new meanings to
numerous ordinary and plain words used in rural
Sindh. His command of rural sensibilities has
given to his poetry a richness rarely seen in
his generation. While other Sindhi poets of his
generation depend on themselves and are
satisfied with their inner resources. Imdad
looks to the experiences of life to furnish the
material for his inspirations. His eager desire
for knowledge, love, experience, suffering and
above all his longing to see Sindh and its
people to survive and surface from the ugly
morass of present day Socio-Economic-Polity of
Pakistan has made him a distinctive and
remarkably lovable poet of Sindh, that is why in
one of his poems "marni naahay Sindh", he says:
"Life is like unspunned thread
We-
you and me- may die
But
Sindh shall never die!" |
