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“Piya Rang Kala” the novel by Mohammed Yahya Khan is the story of a Sheesh Nag (the king of cobras). It is said that this mythic name is so fascinating in its beauty and colours that one cannot see it constantly. It begins to grow black in its colour and its eyes become white as it grows. Then, it makes its path whitish where from it passes. When it grows young, it has the capability of hanging itself into the air. Any one who happens to watch it, is charmed. Sheesh Nag of a hundred years changes itself into a man. Then numberless stories are generated about it.

Mohammed Yahya Khan has done a great favour to Urdu fiction by writing this novel. It has quite a different style reflecting the extensive experience and the ever flowing observation. Yahya Khan has the art of transporting the reader with himself and takes him wherever he likes. This novel has the events of a myth as well as the hidden psychological trickery of human psyche. It is also full of the wisdom of common life. Whatever experiments were needed to write this novel, and the flow of the pen to write such a story, was an action which could only be performed by a restless soul like Mohammed Yahya Khan.

Mohammed Yahya Khan is such a door which opens into a monastery. It is such a gushing fountain from which children peep into a temple. It is the eye of that blind mother who is trying to find her lost child with the tick-tick of her stick. Mohammed Yahya Khan is a spring that comes out of a grave making its silent way into the graveyard. It is such a curtain which a hysteric girl is trying to find life. Mohammed Yahya Khan is a zoom lens as well as an internet screen. If you want to know the future of Urdu novel, you may read this novel. You will, of course come to know about Mohammed Yahya Khan in the pages of this novel. May you live long! Mohammed Yahya Khan!Go on writing!

Bano Qudsia
Lahore

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Mumtaz Mufti

The excellence of Islam is that it is a religion that travels with time. Prayer is an important pillar which is performed by standing, sitting and traveling in the supersonic jet. This is a progressive and liberal religion.

Mohammed Yahya Khan is a Living Sufi who presents the modern picture of Sufism and Islam. His style is quite different.

He is a modern Sufi whose devotees are spread all over the world. “Lok Virsa” has also done much work on Sufism and has published books on it.

The books of Mohammed Yahya Khan present the modern concept of Sufism and Islam.

Aksi Mufti
Lok Virsa Ishaa-ut-Ghar
Post Box No. 1184Islamabad

The Art of a Story Teller
This is a story of the complicated and mysterious events. I started reading this book for entertainment because I liked the writings and the style of Mohammed Yahya Khan. It has the quality of transporting the reader with itself. It catches hold of him completely and does not allow his attention go astray. It absorbs him fully in its scenes and varieties. When the reader is involved once, he begins to flow with it. The reader finds himself traversing into a long journey with a wish to reach his destination. As this book is voluminous and speaks more than its writing, therefore I started it quite cautiously and vigilantly. I tried to be independent of it for a while then I lost myself. But, in spite of this absorption, I did not close my eyes and whatever I saw with my wide opened eyes, it was a new experience and a strange happening.

This book generally may be called a memoir. Although whatever the writer has experienced it has not been experienced by me, yet I cannot refute such happenings. Many people have undergone such experiments but nobody has bothered to listen to them. People with such experiences have been set aside and usually called as untrue. The modern age of Urdu literature does not take into consideration such events, observations and conditions because it is focusing all its attention to Science, Logic and Reasoning. As a result, it is considered that all such writings are doubtful and of weak-faith. The western people have been enthusiastically working on it but the Urdu speaking world has finished its consideration concluding that it was only a superstition.

From this closed up chapter, a mongoose has brought out a bundle of papers having the strip of “Piya Rang Kala” around it. These bundles of paper tells such a story of complicated and strange events that sometimes it reflects Frazier’s “Golden Bow” and sometimes in the writings of Collin Wilson. Sometimes it is kindled with the warm energy of Gurchief.

These are the common events, some quite clear and some in the background. When you read them, you may strongly point out your finger and say how such events can happen. The reader will think why he has not undergone such experiences which Mohammed Yahya Khan has told. Such a supposition by the reader is equal to saying why should it be admitted that pallah fish (a kind of fish) is the most delicious according to a Sindhi fisherman when he himself has not tasted it. And, on such a supposition, all what is said by the Sindhi fisherman is rejected.

As the intelligent readers of Urdu bear the stamp of scientific attitudes, therefore, this book will remain under discussion incessantly. The western researchers will start pondering on it after getting it translated and try to know how vast is the unknown world and what is happening within it.
I am reading this for consecutive time and I feel pleased that the Urdu literature has been enriched by a rather great book. I want to congratulate the writer but can’t do so because it is usual with the senior writers to congratulate the juniors but here the case is quite different.

Ashfaq Ahmed

Sang-e-Meel Publications

It is more than fifty years that I have been connected with the book. During this period, not hundreds but thousands of books were published by me. Those books that remained understudy, a few of them are such which have a strong grip. These books include “Piya Rang Kala” and “Kajal Kotah” by Mohammed Yahya Khan. The more I read them the more their grip increased and when I had gone through these books, I found myself in a rare world of wonder.

Niaz Ahmed
Lahore

The Magical Old Man

Baba Jee Mohammed Yahya Khan perhaps belongs to the age of legends. Perhaps, he would have been a kind, virtuous and worshipping genie that even today his life is full of those magical events and the mysteries of life and he is always a regular visitor of the holy shrines.

The book under consideration is the magic house of his mysterious personality. If he takes one step in the visible place of this world, he takes ten steps into his inner self which makes us travel into a mythical island.

This book is the combination of the outer and inner self. He is a new man in the old times and an old man in the new times. I think there is always a clash going on between an innocent child and an experienced aged man in him. He thinks like an innocent child and writes like an old man. I am stunned many a times to think that he never allows me to make an ultimate opinion about him. Each time I am forced to devise a new opinion but can never be obliged to surrender even until I have caught hold of his true colour and that is “Piya Rang Kala”

Farhat Abbas Shah
Lahore

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