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Ranjish hi sahi dil hi dukhane ke liye aa / Aa phir se mujhe chhod ke jaane ke liye aa
"Come, even if in anger, even if only to hurt my heart; come, even if only to leave me again."
Syed Ahmad Shah, who wrote as Ahmad Faraz, was born in Kohat and studied Urdu and Persian at Peshawar University, where he later taught.
He became head of the Pakistan Academy of Letters and the National Book Foundation. His outspoken criticism of military rule led to arrest and years of self-exile during the Zia era.
In 2006 he returned his Hilal-e-Imtiaz award in protest against the policies of General Musharraf's government.
Romantic love and separation, together with resistance to oppression and loyalty to democratic ideals.
Faraz is often considered the most popular Urdu poet after Faiz, and his ghazals are widely sung and quoted.