User:Z4khi/Ahmed Jamal Sadiq

''(Late)Ahmed Jamal Sadiq a person, a businessman and a poet, who does not require any type of introduction atleast when his name is associated with Jeddah (Saudi Arabia). People specially from Indian sub continent who are living in Jeddah for the past thirty or forty years are well known from his name.

This article is not intended to portray Mr. Jamal's over all life's achievements. Nor the idea is to define the different aspects of his life such as his career in general, or him as a businessman in specific.

We all know that "Poetry" in any language is one of the most established and well received means of human deliverence for thoughts and ideas. And this very robust and beautiful medium of expression of thoughts and ideas is very much present in Mr.Jamal as well. It is only this part of Mr. Jamal's life that I would like to pen down in this article.

His vast knowledge in the field of Urdu Poetry, His command and control on this subject. His indepth analysis and high regards to the field itself. His own contribution in the form of his poems are just a few areas where one can say that poets like him born atleast in a half century's time period. None the less they are born poets. They need not have to be taught Poetry, rather they are the teachers, the scholars and the guidelines for the followers.

After going through his poetry one can say that his school of thought in his writing is mostly derived from SUFISM and ISHQ-E-HAQIQEE. Therefore the great SUFI POETS such as Hazarat AMIR KHUSRO, SADI SHERAZI, HAFIZ,HAZRAT Rumi and Omar Khayyam are the ones whose glorified metrical patronage and versifying approach of sufi poetry are influential in Mr. Jamal's Poetry as well.

Thus in brief the true teachings and learnings for him and for his poetry comes in from the most famous works of the follwoing sufi scholors and poets. And they are:

The Mathnawi and Diwan-e-Shams-eTabriz-i of Rumi. al-Busiri's Qasidat-ulBurda. Shaikh Abu Said Abu-l-Khair's Asrar-ut-Tawhid. Ibn Arabi's Fusus-ul Hikam Al-Ghazali's Kimiya-yi sa adat Gohar Shahi's Turyaaq-Qulb. Bahr-ul-Uloom Maulvi Abdul Qadeer Siddiqui Hasrat's Kulliyyat-e-Hasrat.

Mr.Jamal has true respect, regards and belief in Sufism. His devotional readings in this area for the quest of knowledge,and to seek the ultimate teachings from the great sufi saints such as Hazarat Moinuddin Chishti, Hazrat Qudbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki, Hazarat Fariduddin Ganjshakar and Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya (RehmatulLah), makes his own poetry to the acme and culmination, to the pinnacle and apex point when he writes in this field.

His poetry reflects his intelect and the paragon of his ability in this field of literature. In search of excellence on the subject of Urdu Poetry a paradigm of this level is rarely seen.

Besides the extremely good rather excellent Gazals of Mr. Jamal in the field of Ishq-e-Haqiqi, quite a good number of his work is seen in many other branches of Urdu Poetry, namely in: Geet, Gazal in general,Nazam, Hamd, Naat, Qata and Sehra.

The great poets of all the times of Urdu Poetry such as Wali Decanni, Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janna, Sauda, Bedil, Dard,Mir Taqi Mir, Bahadur Shah Zafer, Khuwaja Haider Ali Atish, Ibrahim Khan Zauq, Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, Momin khan Momin, Mirza Salaamat Ali Dabeer, Mir Baber Ali Anis, Daag Dhelawi, Altaf Hussain Hali, Hasrat Mohani, Allama Shiblli Nomani, Jigar Muradabadi, and Allama Dr. Sir Mohammad Iqbal are just a few who are not only very well read by Mr. Jamal, but one can see the same intelectual level, the same highest level of thougths and ideas in his poems as wel. This in turn makes his poetry a source of delight and authenticity for the reader.

It can be said with a great sense of confidence that his poems are the true reflections of the subject he is adressing. A poem of him may be representing the tranquil expance of sea or the sky, the beauty and the color of the universe, the beautiful moon and the serene moonlight, the other poem may be identifying the versitality and the comely of the nature, still the other may be portraying the vibrent comets or the celestial bliss, the spritual or the invisible heaven.

Now if he approaches in one of his poems with all aesthetical and the philosiphical mind for any of the above mentioned topic then one can be truly amazed that how very much practicality of life he depicts and delineats in his some other poem.

The fact of matter is that only a cerebral listener, an erudite reader or a perspicacious poet only will be able to judge the application of all the priciples, the doctrine, and the rules that are followed in Mr. Jamal's poetry writings.

The highly developed faculty of learning, knowledge and culture along with his sagacity and sapience ,the vision and the power of forming notions and ideas, theory and thinking, view and view point, faith and feeling whether they are easthetics oriented or axiom based enables him to form all of a classical poem.