Wild Waves and the Claw of Light

The poet and lyricist Ahmad Shah Azhar Faizyar, son of Haji Abdul Hakim, was born on the sixth of Jadi 1326 in the village of Amir Mohammad Khan in Ghazni province. He took his primary schooling at the Sayed Jamaluddin Afghani school and the rest at the Naderia lycée in Kabul, and graduated from the Faculty of Literature at Kabul University in 1352. Cancer reached him in 1354 and he died on the twenty-first of Saratan that year in Kabul; his family and friends carried him back to Ghazni and buried him where he was born. He died young and still left behind something close to a thousand poems, in forms old and new. Text in Dari/Persian.

Author: احمدشاه ازهر فیض‌یار

Original title: امواج وحشی و پنجۀ نور