فیض احمد اردو کے عظیم شاعر اور ایک ممتاز اشتراکیت اسٹالنسٹ فکر کے کمیونسٹ تھے ۔ان کے ذاتی خطوط کو اس کتاب میں شائع کیا گیا ہے۔ یہ تمام خطوط انگریزی میں تھے جن کا اردو ترجمہ خود فیض نے کیا ہے۔ ترجمہ میں مفہوم کی ادائیگی کا پورا لحاظ رکھا گیا ہے۔اصل خطوط میں محاورے، تلمیحات، ضرب الامثال کہاوتیں وغیرہ کو اردو میں صحیح جگہ فٹ کرنے کی کامیاب کوشش ہوئی ہے۔ یہ کتاب ان کے نجی خطوط پر مشتمل ہے ،خطوط کے جمع کرنے کا مقصد یہ ہے کہ بڑوں کے برداشتہ قلم سے لکھی باتیں بھی قابل توجہ اور نصیحت آمیز ہوتی ہیں۔ یہ خطوط جیل خانے میں لکھے گئے تھے، ظاہر ہے وہاں قیدی کے پاس وقت ہی وقت ہوتا ہے لہٰذا کئی خط طویل ملیں گے ۔البتہ ان کی طوالت بے معنی نہیں ہے۔ ان خطوط میں تنوع ہے کسی میں موسم کی باتیں ہیں، کسی میں کسی خاص کتاب کا ذکر ہے اور کچھ میں داخلی محسوسات کا بیان ۔ کچھ صفحات یادگار تصاویر سے مزین کیے گئے ہیں جن سے ماضی میں جھانکنے کا مزید دریچہ دستیاب ہوتا ہے۔

Faiz Ahmad Faiz was among the most celebrated and popular shayars. He faced political repression for his revolutionary views. Faiz was his pseudonym. His birth took place in the year 1911, in Sialkot, Punjab, from where he did his basic education from Church Mission School. Later on, he did his Masters in English and Arabic from Government College, Lahore. During his college days, he continued to pursue his poetic aspirations. In 1936, he took up the post of an English lecturer at M.A.O. College, Amritsar. When the Progressive Movement in India gathered momentum in 1936, he was one of the protagonists. Faiz beautifully blended the grief of love with sorrows of life in his poetry which struck a chord with youth. In 1939, when his first collection ‘Naqsh-e-Faryadi’ was published, the literary world was rocked with the echo. During that time, he also assumed the responsibility of editorship of ‘Adab-e-Lateef’. In 1940, Faiz was appointed lecturer at the Hailey College of Commerce, Lahore. This was the period when World War was at its peak and nations were uniting against fascism, consequently Faiz also joined army. In 1947, Faiz took up a position in the Pakistan Times. After that he became editor of “Imroz” and received accolades in journalism too. After Pakistan came into existence, he began working for the rights of labor and was appointed Vice President of Trade Union Federation. He participated in the I.L.O. Geneva Conference as a spokesperson for labor. On March 9, 1951, Faiz was arrested under the Pakistan Safety Order Act for Rawalpindi case for which he was imprisoned. His second collection ‘Dast-e-saba’ commemorates his confinement in Hyderabad jail. Faiz began his poetry with ghazals and steadily shifted his attention to nazm and is acknowledged a renowned poet of both forms among progressive poets. He is equally admired in India, Pakistan as in the western countries. His ghazals have been translated into several languages. He was felicitated with a large number of scholarly awards, particularly the Lenin Peace Prize in 1962 and his Gazals are sung by almost every popular singer. Compositions of poetry: Naqsh-e-faryadi, Dast-e-saba, Zindaan Naama, Dast-e- Tah-e-Sang, Sar-e-Wadi-e-Seena, Sham-e-Sheher-e-Yaaran, Mere Dil Mere Musafir. His complete poetry has been published as ‘Nuskhahaae Wafa’. Faiz passed away on 20th Nov 1984 in Lahore.