Aslam Ansari is a prominent contemporary Urdu poet. Beside a poet, he is also considered an important Iqbal Shanaas, researcher and critic. He has not only shown creative excellence in Urdu but has also written excellent poetry in Persian, English and Saraiki. His poetry rotates around the romantic sentiments, expression of personal and collective truths, lamentaion of modern turmoil, philosophy of the universe and life, defeat of human and moral values in modern time, patriotism and values of the past. The expression of sorrow is found again and again not only in Aslam Ansari’s poetry but also in his prose writings.For him, sorrow is the core reality of life. In this article, the study of sorrow in connection of love and life expressed in his Ghazal has been made.

Footnotes

1.   Dr. Syed Abdullah, Wali se Iqbal Tak, (Lahore: Sang-e-Meel Publications, 2000), p. 14

2.   Dr. Aslam Ansari, Mukaalmaat, (Lahore: Maqbool Academy, 2016), p. 69

3.   Ibid, Khwab-o-Agahi, (Multan: Karwan-e-Adab, 1982), p. 156

4.   Ibid, Shab-e-Ishq ka Sitara, (Multan: Kitab Nagar, 2009), p. 72

5.   Ibid, p. 113

6.   Ibid, Naqsh Ehd-e-Wisal ka, (Lahore: Alhamd Publications, 1996), p. 59

7.   Ibid, Khwab-o-Agahi, p.

8.   Ibid, Shab-e-Ishq ka Sitara, p.

9.   Ibid, Naqsh Ehd-e-Wisal ka, p.

10. Ibid, Shab-e-Ishq ka Sitara, p.

11. Ibid, Naqsh Ehd-e-Wisal ka, p.

12. Ibid, Shab-e-Ishq ka Sitara, p.

13. Ibid, Khwab-o-Agahi, p.

14. Ibid, Naqsh Ehd-e-Wisal ka, p.

15. Ibid, Khwab-o-Agahi, p.

16. Ibid, Naqsh Ehd-e-Wisal ka, p.

17. Ibid, Khwab-o-Agahi, p.

18. Ibid, Shab-e-Ishq ka Sitara, p.

19. Ibid, Khwab-o-Agahi, p.

20. Dr. Iftikhar Shafi, Dr. Alsam Ansari Shakhsiat aur Fan, (Islamabad: Pakistan Academy of Letters, 2010), p. 52

21. Dr. Aslam Ansari, Khwab-o-Agahi, p. 77

22. Ibid, p. 90

23. Ibid, p. 34

24. Ibid, p. 132

25. Ibid, p. 78

26. Ibid, Shab-e-Ishq ka Sitara, p. 167

27. Ibid, Naqsh Ehd-e-Wisal ka, p. 88

28. Ibid, p. 144

29. Dr. Iftikhar Shafi, Dr. Alsam Ansari Shakhsiat aur Fan, p. 48

30. Qazi Javed, Muhabbat aur Inqelab, (Lahore: Book Traders, 1980), p. 14

31. Nasir Kazmi, Khushk Chashmey kay Kinarey, (Lahore: Fazl-e-Haq & Sons, 1990), p. 21

32. Ibid, Naqsh Ehd-e-Wisal ka, p. 93

33. Ibid, p.141

34. Dr. Najeeb Jamal, Urdu Shairi ki Tehzeeb (Amir Khusro say Ghalib tak), (Bahawalpur: Jazeera-e-Tehreer, 2007), p. 11

35. Ibid, Naqsh Ehd-e-Wisal ka, p. 143

36. Ibid, p.150

37. Ibid, Mukaalmaat, p. 70

38. Ibid, Khwab-o-Agahi, p. 12

39. Ibid, p. 117

40. Ibid, Naqsh Ehd-e-Wisal ka, p. 116

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