PROSE SERVICES OF SYED MUHAMMAD FAROOQ UL QADRI

Abstract

Garhi Ikhtiar Khan which is a historical town has a unique identity in South Punjab. Many famous writers have been born from this soil. Those who made their mark in Urdu poetry and prose, including Khwaja Muhammad Yar Faridi, Syed Saif ud din Mugfoor ul Qadri, Khwaja Ghulam Qutb ud din, Karim Bakhsh Shoaib, Shabnam Awan and Syed Muhammad Farooq ul Qadri, are proof of this. Syed Muhammad Farooq-ul-Qadri was a religious scholar. He was not attracted to fictional stories, so he never focused on novels, fiction or drama. He achieved great fame in non-fiction literature and spent his entire life in Urdu prose. As it has been written, after examining the genre literature like an expert, he decided to make non-fiction literature credible with his pen. Sufism, spirituality, religious topics and social reform were also his subjects in this. He translated important books of Islamic scholars which had been published in Persian and Arabic into Urdu. Apart from this, he also wrote essays and sketches of many famous personalities. The cases, articles and letters which are covered with the color of Sufism are a testimony of his prose services.