THE OBJECTS OF HIGHEST VALUE ON EARTH IS HUMAN LIFE BY FAIZ AHMET FAIZ
Category: Writing and Poetry

  There are truths which seem self-evident,yet which need to be repeated over and over again,because through forgetting them mankind may suffer irrepairable damage.One of these essential truths is this:the object of the highest value on the Earth is human life.The essence of humanism is to defend life against all attempts to destroy it and we have witnessed plenty of those in our time.

   We all know what means of destruction have been accumulated on the beloved planet.We know something else too,that nobody has the right to consider the question of war and peace as being purely local-private affair. This is the most important,vital and decessive problem of our age.For the developing countries and my own country,they are particularly important: There is still a lot to be donebefore we can break free of the heritage of imperialism-collonialism,and each armed conflict throws us far back and hampers the building of a new and simply just life.

     It is fine that we now live in a period of detente.It is fine that the princioles of coexistence are becoming more actively declared in relations between the states too,which until recently was one of the seats of the war.This experience has shown that peaceful coexistence is the only sensible and reliable way.

      But we have got to fight for it;and in this fight literature has an important part to play:by spreading the worthy ideas of humanism,it contributes to the great struggle for life,progress and happiness,which is the essence of our epoch.For me the problems of peace and humanism have always been indivisible.peace is not merely a theme for an article or a book,it is the very substance of a writer's work and his whole life.This ishow I understand the mission of the art in our time.

      (THIS TEXT WAS WRITTEN BY A PAKISTANI AUTHOR-FAIZ  AHMET FAIZ-PUBLISHED IN LOTUS,ISSUE NO:34-4/77,  OCTONER-DECEMBER 1977 AND PRESENTED HERE SINCE IT IS STILL ACTUAL ON EVERY BASIS IT UNDERLINED)

Category: Writing and Poetry

  There are truths which seem self-evident,yet which need to be repeated over and over again,because through forgetting them mankind may suffer irrepairable damage.One of these essential truths is this:the object of the highest value on the Earth is human life.The essence of humanism is to defend life against all attempts to destroy it and we have witnessed plenty of those in our time.

   We all know what means of destruction have been accumulated on the beloved planet.We know something else too,that nobody has the right to consider the question of war and peace as being purely local-private affair. This is the most important,vital and decessive problem of our age.For the developing countries and my own country,they are particularly important: There is still a lot to be donebefore we can break free of the heritage of imperialism-collonialism,and each armed conflict throws us far back and hampers the building of a new and simply just life.

     It is fine that we now live in a period of detente.It is fine that the princioles of coexistence are becoming more actively declared in relations between the states too,which until recently was one of the seats of the war.This experience has shown that peaceful coexistence is the only sensible and reliable way.

      But we have got to fight for it;and in this fight literature has an important part to play:by spreading the worthy ideas of humanism,it contributes to the great struggle for life,progress and happiness,which is the essence of our epoch.For me the problems of peace and humanism have always been indivisible.peace is not merely a theme for an article or a book,it is the very substance of a writer's work and his whole life.This ishow I understand the mission of the art in our time.

      (THIS TEXT WAS WRITTEN BY A PAKISTANI AUTHOR-FAIZ  AHMET FAIZ-PUBLISHED IN LOTUS,ISSUE NO:34-4/77,  OCTONER-DECEMBER 1977 AND PRESENTED HERE SINCE IT IS STILL ACTUAL ON EVERY BASIS IT UNDERLINED)