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Abdul Hameed Mashokhel was a pashtun
poet.
clan, a Pashtun
tribe. Hameed travelled to Peshawar
, where he undertook his education, and became a priest. At this point, Hameed was a man of considerable stature among intellectuals, and students from a number of surrounding districts came to receive instruction from him.
Hameed's poetry was written primarily in the Pashto language
. His poems generally had a moral
to them, and were often tinged with tones of contempt for the world and its lack of virtue. The morals of his poems were based on Sufism
, as a large proportion of other Muslim poetry was. Hameed's poetry was popular even in Persia, where he was dubbed "Hameed the Hair-splitter". Hameed's major works, Love's Fascination, The King and the Beggar and Pearls and Corals have all been translated into English.
Hameed's exact death date is not known, but it is thought by those in his home village that he died around the year 1732. He died in the same house that he had lived in for most of his life.
Pashtun people
Pashtuns or Pathans , also known as ethnic Afghans , are an Eastern Iranic ethnic group with populations primarily between the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan and the Indus River in Pakistan...
poet.
Biography
Abdul Hameed Masho Gagar was born in the second half of the 17th century at Mashu Gagar, a small village controlled by the Kudrizi branch of the MohmandMohmand
The Mohmand are a clan of Sarban Pashtuns, living primarily in the FATA & Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan & northeastern Afghanistan.- Demographics :...
clan, a Pashtun
Pashtun people
Pashtuns or Pathans , also known as ethnic Afghans , are an Eastern Iranic ethnic group with populations primarily between the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan and the Indus River in Pakistan...
tribe. Hameed travelled to Peshawar
Peshawar
Peshawar is the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the administrative center and central economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan....
, where he undertook his education, and became a priest. At this point, Hameed was a man of considerable stature among intellectuals, and students from a number of surrounding districts came to receive instruction from him.
Hameed's poetry was written primarily in the Pashto language
Pashto language
Pashto , known as Afghani in Persian and Pathani in Punjabi , is the native language of the indigenous Pashtun people or Afghan people who are found primarily between an area south of the Amu Darya in Afghanistan and...
. His poems generally had a moral
Moral
A moral is a message conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or event. The moral may be left to the hearer, reader or viewer to determine for themselves, or may be explicitly encapsulated in a maxim...
to them, and were often tinged with tones of contempt for the world and its lack of virtue. The morals of his poems were based on Sufism
Sufism
Sufism or ' is defined by its adherents as the inner, mystical dimension of Islam. A practitioner of this tradition is generally known as a '...
, as a large proportion of other Muslim poetry was. Hameed's poetry was popular even in Persia, where he was dubbed "Hameed the Hair-splitter". Hameed's major works, Love's Fascination, The King and the Beggar and Pearls and Corals have all been translated into English.
Hameed's exact death date is not known, but it is thought by those in his home village that he died around the year 1732. He died in the same house that he had lived in for most of his life.