A Short Review of the Life and Poetry of Hazrat Syed Mir Anwar Shah

Abstract

The Pashto literature is the mirror of Sufism and humanity. Mostly the poets here are the lover of human and humanity. The ray of the content of Sufism and humanism had been started from the very beginning of Pashto literature specially poetry. The Rokhanies and after them Darwezies were the pioneer of Sufism. Rahman baba is the most popular poet in the subjected topic, Sufism. After him most of the poets followed him. One of those Sufis is Hazrat Syed Mir Anwar Shah, whose poetry is also the reflection of the Sufi thoughts. In this paper we are going to introduce him and shortly discuss the main theme of his poetry and show that his poetry is reflection of humanity and Sufism. After that we are going to show the ray of the thoughts of Rahman Baba on his poetry.