Wasif Ali Wasif

He wrote regular essays, commonly referred as columns, on weekly basis, in Pakistani Urdu newspaper Daily Nawa-i-Waqtنوائے وقت His first ever column entitled “Muhabbat” (love) published in 1984 in literature section of Nawa-i-Waqt, bewildered many in literary circles. In his life, most of his columns were compiledin the forms ofbooks, with his own selected titles, DIL DARYA SAMANDER دل دریا سمندر and QATRA QATRA QALZA قطرہ قطرہ قلزم. and HARF HARF HAQEEQAT حرف حرف حقیقت. Probably no contemporary Urdu writer is more cited in quotations than he is. His aphoristic style of writing has become proverbial and a bench mark in Urdu literature, commonly termed as Wasifian Style of prose writing. His is considered a founder of a new thought system called WASFIYAAT واصفیات, a blend of mystic wisdom, ethics and patriotism. He has beautifully amalgamated Pakistanism with mysticism. His Mystic teachings, taking roots directly from Shariah ( Quran and Hadees) represent the inner core and real essence of Islam. He got a gifted art of creating a rainbow of meanings with the help of very few droplets of words. He may be considered the pioneer of aphorism in Urdu literature.