Allah Almighty. Zoroaster is believed to have lived in the 6th century BC…. Ayaz Daudzzai’
(Bridging The Gaps/Nazish Zafar/P: 23)
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‘In Afzal Shauq ‘s TWIST OF FATES the human values system is shaken, your friends might become your enemies. He tackles two major themes. Love and War. They merge, they sometimes play each other’s part , they cannot be separated, like the light and its shadow. They represent the two dimensions of life itself. The humans have two choices to make: to love or to fight, to fight for their ideals. Love is also a fight… undefeatable fight between the heart and soul as Afzal Shauq referred to the following poem with an innovative theme… Andreea Sarcani’
(Bridging The Gaps/Nazish Zafar/P: 27)
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‘His fountain of poems describe the state of evolution change in heart, mind and action at every different incident of time. Which otherwise we have not the time to reflect . Afzal Shauq brings about every ‘contemplation’ we go through in our present day-to-day life. His pure dedications are recitations of what truth holds and what reality counts but because of the human state of mind (ego), we are always static in ‘denial’ or ‘ignorance’ of “the state of feelings which we had just passed through.”…. Benita Premchand’
(Bridging The Gaps/Nazish Zafar/P: 33)
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‘Twist of Fates’ is a translation of 333 poems of Afzal Shauq into English, by the American Alley Boling. Most of Shauq’s verses are short and in free verse. The poet catches fleeting ideas and puts them in cages of words. For that, he has to put the idea instinctively in any form that he has