Did Noor Jehan take away 'Mujh Se Pehli Si Muhabbat' from Faiz Ahmad Faiz?
Faiz once famously said of his poem, "It's not my song any more, it belongs to Noor Jehan now."
Today marks the birth of one of Pakistan's most beloved minds; Faiz Ahmed Faiz, an impressive man to say the least.
A recognised poet at 18, one of the founders of the Progressive Writers Association at 24, a colonel in his thirties, editor of a national daily at 37 and a Lenin Prize winner at 50. Even 34 years after his death, Faiz is gone but never forgotten.
Here are a few ghazals and nazms based on works penned by the literary genius himself: