HUM DEKHENGE GE ANALYSIS

Hum Dekhenge (1979) was a powerful and popular poem, but it assumed iconic status and became a
universal anthem of protest and hope after it was rendered by Iqbal Bano in 1986. Indeed, it was Iqbal
Bano who made Faiz’s revolutionary nazm immortal.

In September 1978. Zia’s dictatorship soon took a powerful religious turn, and he used conservative
Islam as an authoritarian and repressive tool to tighten his grip over the country. In Hum Dekhenge, Faiz
called out Zia — a worshipper of power and not a believer in Allah — merging the imagery of faith with
revolution.

FAIZ AHMAD FAIZ

Born on February 13, 1911 in Sialkot, Punjab. Faiz Ahmad Faiz was among the most celebrated and
popular shayars. He faced political repression for his revolutionary views. Faiz was his pseudonym. Faiz's
early poems had been conventional, light-hearted treatises on love and beauty, but while in Lahore he
began to expand into politics, community, and the thematic. He received the ‘Lenin Peace Award’ in
1962, which improved Pakistan’s relations with the Soviet Union. The majority of his works have been
translated into Russian. He is known as the “Poet of the East” alongside Allama Iqbal.