Ameer Hamza Shinwari
| Hamza Shinwari حمزہ شينواری |
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| Born | 1907 Landi Kotal |
| Died | 1994 |
| Resting place | Khyber Agency |
| Known for | Pashto poetry |
| Home town | Peshawar |
| Parent(s) | Bazmeer Khan |
Ameer Hamza Shinwari (Pashto: حمزه شينواری) was a Pashtun poet. He was born in Landi Kotal, in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan in 1907 and died in February 1994.
He belonged to the Shinwari tribe of the ethnic Pashtuns.
His work is considered a fusion between classic and modern poetry. He wrote classical poetry and blended it with modern innovations, as well as introducing new ideas in Pashto Ghazals. He is known as the father of Pashto Ghazals.
He was born in Khyber Agency, the fifth son of Bazmeer Khan. In 1915 he enrolled in primary school. The teacher asked him to write the Urdu alphabet (Alif, Bhe, Fei………). Instead he drew the figure of a human, displaying his artistic abilities. Because of this, the teacher beat him and he began to hate school. He went to Islamia Collegiate school in the fifth class, and started writing poetry in Urdu. He wrote many tales (Afsana). He chose Urdu because his friend told him "You can't get a good position in the Urdu language, so you must start poetry in your native tongue". Hamza did not like writing in Urdu, but he wrote in Urdu anyway. He wrote his first Pashto ghazal in 1933.
Za da yaar da makh pa shama zei da danesta swazama,
Shamei tha bha ghura hase be aqala parwa na kawei.
Zaa saa dar hada mashahoor sharab nushei kei yam,
Zam che mekhanei tha isteqbal me mekhane kawei.
He was working on the railway, and had very little money. He was given a low income certificate, leading him to quit. He went to Mumbai to work in the film industry. He failed to get work in film. He was coming through Ajmeer Sharif with his brother on basant maila. Wali Sb Nisar Ahmed with his co-Qawal was singing "Aaj Khawaja Moheen Uddin k ghar aaj easi hai basant", which inspired Hamza and he started crying. It was His turning point to Sufiism. Hamza was inspired by Mirza Khan Insari and Khushal Khan Khattak. In early 1940's his poetry was related to romanticism.
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