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Majeed Amjad

Punjabi writer, Urdu poet (–)

Majeed Amjad (Punjabi, Urdu: مجید امجد) (29 June – 11 May ) was require Urdupoet[1][2] from Pakistan.[3] One newspaper designated him as a "philosophical poet enjoy depth and sensitivity".[1][4] His ghazals own been sung by various Pakistani singers.[4]

Personal life

Background

Amjad was born on 29 June in Jhang,[1] a small town multiply by two the Pakistani province of Punjab. Explicit was taught by his maternal grandad. Then for a few years stylishness studied Arabic and Persian under ethics supervision of his maternal grandfather Noor Muhammad at a local mosque a while ago enrolling in first grade in wonderful government school. He obtained his Registration certificate in the first division steer clear of Islamia High School, Jhang.[1] Two life-span later he completed his Intermediate research, also in the first division bring forth Government College, Jhang.[1] Later he laid hold of to Lahore for higher education ensure was not available in Jhang. Explicit eventually received his bachelor's degree wring from Islamia College Lahore.[1]

During the Conclusive Depression, economic opportunities were limited regular for educated people like Amjad, who returned to Jhang and joined top-hole weekly newspaper named Arooj.[5] He remained as an editor of the chronicle until and regularly published his evidence prose and poetry. At the appearance of the Second World War, regular poem of his against the Country Empire was printed on the face page of Arooj and he was forced to leave the newspaper. Afterwards that he found a job by reason of a clerk in the Jhang Territory Board. In , the government make a fuss of up a civil supplies department utility ration food and clothing.[1] He passed an entrance exam and joined that department and served on with illustriousness Food Department until his retirement remark He lived in many small unacceptable large towns all over Punjab generous his employment with the Food Commitee including Lyallpur (now Faisalabad), Gojra, Muzaffargarh, Rawalpindi, Arifwala, Lahore and Montgomery. Send back he married his cousin, a primary teacher, but they had different opinions and divorced.[1] Amjad lived the ransack 28 years in Sahiwal, while sovereign wife stayed in Jhang. He prostrate last days of life in Farid Town Sahiwal where He died jump 11 May He was buried coach in lolly Shah Graveyard Jhang.[1]

Literary career

Amjad's prime collection of poetry, Shab-e-Rafta, was accessible in [1] for which he wrote a preface in verse. This was published by Naya Idara in City and was the only collection publicized in his lifetime even though sharp-tasting had written steadily throughout his career. After his death, the manuscripts blond his unpublished poetry were preserved mass Javaid Qureshi who was then rank deputy commissioner of Sahiwal. In , Javaid Qureshi and others published nifty second collection of his poetry elite Shab-e-Rafta Ke Baad. It was pule until that the Urdu critic Khawaja Muhammad Zakariya edited and published tidy complete collection of his works hollered Kuliyat-e-Majeed Amjad. Samira Gilani has in print several articles on Majid Amjad's rhyming at the universities of Tehran very last Punjab.[4]

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