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Lecture on Fareed’s poetry
LAHORE - Hast-o-Neest Centre for Traditional Art and Culture will organise a lecture on “The Concept of Wahdat-ul-Wujud in the Poetry of Khawaja Ghulam Fareed” by Dr Shahzad Qaiser on 27th February 27 (Sunday) at 4pm.
After two decades of career as a civil servant, including serving as Special Secretary to the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Dr Shahzad returned to the academia to earn a PhD from Bahauddin Zakariya University in Multan. His dissertation, The Metaphysics of Khawaja Ghulam Farid, a subject that has engaged him for years, won him the Allah Nawaz Tareen Gold Medal in 1994.
Dr Qaiser has five collections of Light Essays (Inshaiya) in Urdu on his credit.An accomplished poet of Punjabi language he has excelled in the traditional literary genre of Kafi, publishing five volumes of Kafis including ‘Asmana Dey Bohe Khol’, ‘Main Nayein Sub Tun’, ‘Gal Wich Payum Prit Mohar’, ‘Talawat-i-Wajud’, ‘Ishq Faqr de Sang’ and a collection of poems ‘Dooji Akh’. He has published numerous books including ‘Quest for the Eternal’, ‘Of Intellect and Reason’, ‘Metaphysics and Tradition’.Nation