Saraiki literature

Saraiki literature is the literature of the Saraiki language (sometimes written as Siraiki) which is mostly spoken in central Pakistan. Saraiki is the most widely spoken language in Pakistan and the first language of more than 120 million people in the World. Among those 80 Million are in Pakistan (2008). It has a very rich culture and is the representative language of Sindh Valley Civilization.

The main Saraiki speaking areas are Multan, Bahawalpur, Dera Ghazi Khan, Dera Ismail Khan and most parts of Sargodha division. Saraiki is also spoken widely in Sindh and Baluchistan provinces of Pakistan. It has many sweet dialects and is considered as the language of love.

Saraiki is the language of love and literature. Rich cultural context and diversity of expression in the language have enabled Saraiki poets and prose writers to produce literature masterpieces. Saraiki poetry has different themes. Love for beloved and love for land can be identified as major ones. Sufi poets have used this language not only to speak to people but also to God. Saraiki people have a natural flair for poetry and literature. Most of the Saraiki literature is unrecorded for the reason that no formal patronage has been provided to poets and writers. Before the inception of Pakistan, Saraiki was written in Devnagri script and converting to Arabic/ Persian script resulted in the loss of a substantial part of literature.

During last two centuries, Saraiki motherland has produced a lot of legendary poets. Khawaja Ghulam Farid, Sachal Sar Mast and Shah Latif are some of famous Saraiki poets which are known world wide for their universal message of love.History Of Saraiki This is the first web site about Saraiki language and culture on World Wide Web to promote Saraiki language and culture all across the world. Saraiki is the most widely spoken language in Pakistan and the first language of more than 110 million people in the subcontinent. Saraiki is the 10th largest language out of more than 6000 languages in the world. It has a very rich culture and is the representative language of Sindh Valley Civilization. The main Saraiki speaking areas are Multan, Bahawalpur, Dera Ghazi Khan, Dera Ismail Khan and most parts of Sargodha division. Saraiki is also spoken widely in Sindh and Baluchistan provinces of Pakistan. It has many sweet dialects and is considered as the language of love.

Saraiki is the language of love and literature. Rich cultural context and diversity of expression in the language have enabled Saraiki poets and prose writers to produce literature masterpieces. Saraiki poetry has different themes. Love for beloved and love for land can be identified as major ones. Sufi poets have used this language not only to speak to people but also to God. Saraiki people have a natural flair for poetry and literature. Most of the Saraiki literature is unrecorded for the reason that no formal patronage has been provided to poets and writers. Before the inception of Pakistan, Saraiki was written in Devnagri script and converting to Arabic/ Persian script resulted in the loss of a substantial part of literature.During last two centuries, Saraiki motherland has produced a lot of legendary poets. Khawaja Ghulam Farid, Sachal Sarmast and Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai are some of famous Saraiki poets which are known world wide for their universal message of love.

Poetry

Historically, the most celebrated poet in the Saraiki language is Khawaja Farid (1845–1901). His poems were written in a form of verse known as Kafi, a form rooted in a tradition of singing of poetry. Kafi should unite sound, imagery, feeling and subject matter. The following is an English translation of a few lines of one of Farid's poems:

The beloved's intense glances call for blood

The dark hair wildly flows The Kohl of the eyes is fiercely black

And slays the lovers with no excuse

My appearance in ruins, I sit and wait

While the beloved has settled in Malheer I feel the sting of the cruel dart

My heart the, abode of pain and grief A life of tears, I have led Farid

In Sindh, the most famous poet of Saraiki is Sachal Sarmast (1739–1829), the well known poet of seven languages. Recently, the famous sufi poet Hazrat Pir Mitha has also written a vast collection of religious poetry in Saraiki. Of the contemporary poets, most notables are 'Ashoo Lal ', ' Rifat Abbas' and 'Mumtaz Haider Daher'. Their poetry is immensely popular in the Saraiki region of Pakistani Punjab including Multan, Bahawalpur, Dera Ghazi Khan and Rahim Yar Khan Regions. http://www.seraikigeet.com

Saraiki Writings

Since the start of the consciousness raising efforts about common ethnic language in the 1960s, the number of Saraiki publications has increased. Most of the writings from the 1960s to the 1980s were political in nature and are ‘tarnished' with the ethnopolitical aims of the writers .Even though the number of publications has increased in the last and present decade, the Saraiki intellectuals themselves admit that there is not much readership, except perhaps for the works of some renowned contemporary poets, especially of the revolutionary poet Shakir Shujaabadi which sell like hot cakes' . Although writings in all the regional languages are suffering' from lack of readership due to similar reasons, in the case of Saraiki there are two added reasons. Firstly, most of the writers bring in colloquial phraseology (which varies from one variety to the other) in their writings and secondly, many writers, in their zeal to prove the antiquity of Saraiki language and to promote its Indo-Aryan feature, tend to use more Sanskrit words instead of the more common Arabic/Persian words in order to distinguish it from Punjabi and Urdu, thus blocking the understanding of the general readers .

Novelist

Ismail Ahmedani - probably the most celebrated novelist and fiction writer. Ahmedani has done much to promote the Saraiki language as a language for modern fiction writing. Ismail Ahmedani died at Karachi on 6 June 2007 and buried in his home village of Rasoolpur.

Fiction writers

• Ismail Ahmedani.He is novelist and fiction write .His three books has been published.Amar Kahani-Peet de Pandh-Chhulian.
• Mussrat Kalanchvi She is fiction writer .His coolection of fictions Uchi Dharti Jhika Asman has been published
• Batool Rahmani She is fiction writer
• Zafar Lishari He is fiction write and novelist.Nazoo and Pahaj are his novels
• Ahsan Wagha He is fiction writer .His two collections has been published -Thal karen darya- and Aadi Was
• Hafeez Khan He is fiction writer .His book is veendi rut de sham
• Dr.Ghazala Ahmedani She is fiction writer .Her book is Aj de Marvi
• Aslam Aziz Durani He is fiction writer
• Bast Bhutti He is fiction writer.His first collection has been published

Linguists

• Mehr Abdul Haq His famous book is Multani zaban ka urdu se taaluq
• Zami Bahawalpuri His famous books are Saraiki Lughat and Saraiki zaban ka irtaqa
• Dilshad Kalanchvi His famous book is Saraiki lisaniat
• Dr.Saiqa Asif She is assistant professor in English department in B.Z.University Multan.Her Ph.D thesis and aricles about Saraiki language are valuable.She writes in English
• Ahsan Wagha His M.Phil and Ph.D thesis about Saraiki language is very important.His M,Phil thesis is The Saraiki language-Its growth and Development
• Shaukat Mughal His bool areSaraiki dian khas awazan di kahani.Saraiki Muhawaray.Saraiki Masadir.Saraiki parhoon te Saraiki lekhoon and others

Rais shahid Iqbal Terhaily saraiki writer in weekly kook from karachi.Now a day he is working as an editor in saraiki digest NAVEKALA".He was EX.Nazim of union council Kot Sanjer khan ,District Rahim Yar khan

Critics

• Sadique Taher His collection of articles is Wewaray
• Dr Javed Chanio His critical work is on Khwaja Ghulam Farid

Poets

• Shakir Shujabadi with numerous books and having popularity through out region. He is known countrywide for his poetry. His books includes Kalam-e-Shakir, Khuda Janey, Shakir Diyan Ghazlan, Peelay Patr,Munafqan tu Khuda Bachaway,Shakir de Dohray etc.
• Sachal Sarmast His collection is Schal sarmat jo Saraiki Kalam
• Bedil Sindhi His coolection Dewan-i-bedil
• Hamal Leghari His collection is Dewan-i- Hamal
• Lutf Ali His book is Saifal Nama
• Khwaja Ghulam Farid A legend poet of Saraiki.His collection is Dewan-i-Farid
• Khurum Bahawalpuri His collection is Khiaban-i-Kurum
• Safeer Leshari-His first collection is Vepray
• Mumtaz Haider Daher His collection is Andharay-de- raat and Kashkool vich samandar
• Ashoo Lal His first collection is Chhero hath nah murli'
• Refat Abbas His collection are Parchhian ute Phul and Sangat Ved
• Dr Nasrullah Khan Nasir His two collections of Saraiki poetry are Ajrak' and Aoey Hoey
• Jahngeer Mkhlis
• Qais Faridi His collection is Nemro
• Aman-ullah Arshad
• Naseer Sarmad His first collection is Sojhla
• Saeed Akhtar Sial
• There is a tradition in Saraiki belt'Poets read their poetry in public gathering 'it is called Mushaera[1]

Dramatists

• Ismail Ahmedani Hakra wal Wahse (unpublished)
• Hafeez Khan,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

See also

• Saraiki people
• Saraiki language
• Saraiki literature
• Saraikistan
• Saraiki nationalist movement
• Saraiki Wasaib
• Saraiki Culture
• Bahawalpur (princely state)
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