Birth Name |
Faqeer Jan Muhammad |
Pen Name |
Janan, Chan |
Born |
Tuesday، 01 January 1895 |
Birth Place: |
Warih |
Died |
Sunday، 24 December 1995 |
Remains in |
Naseerabad |
His real name is Sufi Faqir Jan Muhammad, born around 1895 according to 1313 Hijri in the village of Tharri Hajran, Taluk Warh-Nasirabad District, Shikarpur, then Taluk Warh, former district of Larkani and now district of Qamber Shahdadkot, in the house of religious scholar Muhammad Hassan Chan. His mother's name was Rahiman Khatun. Faqir Janan Chan was given the name 'Sadiq Ali' by the mentor. His father Maulvi Muhammad Hasan Faqir was married from a Brohi family of Balochistan, from whom he had 3 daughters and 7 sons. Among them, two sons Muhammad Qasim and Abdul Razzaq Chan died when they were young. Faqir Janan was the fourth among his brothers. His brothers made him study in a seminary for three years. But read only a few verses of the Holy Quran. He did not receive any formal education after that, his initial occupation was foraging in the jungle and solitude. During that period, he believed in Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani and used to raise the voice of 'Yaad Dastgir' in every difficult time. His father died at the age of 11. In the year 1919, he did political service along with his younger brother Bakhshal Chan in the Khilafat movement from Larkana and wrote revolutionary poetry. Thus, his poetry continued on the themes of passion, passion, pain, peasants, perfection and revolution. At the age of 30, he got married from a Katiyan family in the village of Katiyan of Warah taluk. He had 5 daughters and four sons. After marriage, he settled on the land of a Hindu. After the Sindhi Hindus migrated to India after partition, this land was allotted to him, but he did not take it himself. He said a revolutionary poem by giving full support to comrade Haider Bakhsh Jatoi in Hari Movement: Kare Dekorara! Wake up early, be smart! After the Hari movement, his words gained momentum. He used to sing on Yaktari and used to attend small and big dargahs of Sindh. He felt real love, he sang new Sufi songs in search of 'Allah's path,' he went in search of truth. In divine love, Zara kept attending to the elders, crying in rows. Ayubi was also imprisoned in Sukkur prison during the martial law period. When he was released, he insisted that the case brought against me by Haji Umar Phalpoti was correct and I should not be pardoned but punished. Thus, during ten months of prison, he continued to express his love by singing and playing. It was there with the permission of Mahdi Sarkar that his first student, Muhammad Panah Thahim, became more influential after his release from prison. He began to deny himself. This poem of his is famous: We were sold at the door of Dilbar, he will be near his servant's house. Due to Sufi poetry, in 1991, a fatwa of compulsory killing was issued on him by some clerics. The last time Fakir Sahib was very ill. He died on the first day of Shaban 1416 AH / 24 December 1995 at Fajr on Sunday. His last resting place is near Naseerabad village Mundar Laka Taluk Naseerabad District Qamber Shahdadkot, where his death anniversary is celebrated every year. The short biography and poem of Faqir Janan Chan was edited and published by Yawar Ali Kazmi and Mohabbate Ali under the name of 'Haq Akhtan'.