Faiz Ahmed Faiz citations

“If ink and pen are snatched from me, shall I
Who have dipped my finger in my heart's blood complain—
Of if they seal my tongue, when I have made
A mouth of every round link of my chain?”

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Faiz Ahmad Faiz

Poems by Faiz, translated by Victor Kiernan, 1971, p. 117
Poetry, Stanzas

“Last night your lost memory so came into the heart
As spring comes in the wilderness quietly,
As the zephyr moves slowly in deserts,
As rest comes without cause to a sick man.”

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Faiz Ahmad Faiz

Source: Poetry, Poems by Faiz, translated by Victor Kiernan, 1971, p. 49

“I had to listen when my friends told me to wash my eyes with blood
Everything at once was tangled in blood —
each face, each idol, red everywhere.
Blood swept over the sun, washing away its gold.
The moon erupted with blood, its silver extinguished.”

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Faiz Ahmad Faiz

quoted from Tariq Ali - The Clash of Fundamentalisms_ Crusades, Jihads and Modernity-Verso (2002)