- Mulavi Murad Ali Khan Sahibzada
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Murad Ali Sahebzada son of late Abdul Rahman Saelani with the help of Ghulam Haidar Khan Qalmaq in 1235 H.L refuged with his three sons from the Yusafzae area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to Kama district of Nangarhar province of Afghanistan and got famous under the name of Faqeer Saheb. The family of Faqeer Saheb now lives in Kama district which reaches 3000 people. They are Sayeds and their family tree reaches Hazrat Imam Hasan but they do not use the name of sayed with their names. Most of them are writers, religious scholars and poets and are famous with the last name of Murad. From his mother's side the famous writer Mr. Qayamuddin Khadem is also related to this family.
Murad Ali Sahebzada was born in 1220 H.S. He studied the traditional subjects of that time like Sarf, Nahwa, Hekmat, Fiqh & Meerath, Tafseer, Hadith, Uruz and Literature and he was also the Hafiz of Holy Quran. He was a very good writer, Author, Teacher, and Poet of his time. His son Mohammad Sahebzada writes about him "He has written unlimited number of poems in Pashto, Dari, Arabic and Hindi. Writing poem was such easy for him, that he won't feel any difference between poem and prose. He has written a lot of Ghazals on Monotheism and Wisdom. His handwriting was very good and quick." He went to Kabul in the kingdom of Amir Sher Ali Khan.
Categories:- Afghan poets
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