Poet of Shareek-e-Harf Khalid Jamal
Once a gentelman ask Faiz Ahmad Faiz that what good qualities should a poet posses to be an excellent poet, then he replied that first of all he should be a very good carpenter and this quality of being good carpenter is god gifted and every one cannot have this art.
A part from this some other qualities a poet should Have ,like he should Have poetic essence in him and how much foresighted he is ?how kind hearted he is for human being? If a poet keeps himself limited to
his soul then his poetry will not have multi dimensional angles and universal impact . in my words a poet should have three fold personality . firstly ,he should be able to see and experience within him, then he should feel the incidents around him and finally he should able to feel and conceive the cultural and social, political
changes at global level and express in his poetry, for an eminent poet, it is not only essential to be a good thinker of present , past but he should have immense and extensive imagination of future .
In view of above, if we think of urdu poet Khalid Jamal ,then it becomes clear that he is a poet of our present age and his urdu ghazals are the expressions of his deep overlay thoughts which can be related to the socio political and psychological scenario of new generation and depicts the real picture of present society .
After going through the poetry of Khalid Jamal I got him to be very impressive and full of unique thoughts and new ideas of expressions. Hence I decided to include a write up on his introduction and poetry
in my upcoming book “shoraay e banaras”, which are based on introduction of numerous urdu poets of Uttar Pardesh.
Zubair Ahmad Quadri
Editor Monthly “Tarqeem o Tarseel” Delhi
