An Account Of The Translation Of Rahman’s Poetry By Hamza Khan Shinwari.

Abstract

Rahman baba is the most popular and beloved poet of the Pashtuns. Saidu Baba, a religious Scholar and Sufi of Swat once said if “Pashtuns asked to pray on a book other than Quran they would undoubtedly go for Rahman Baba’s book.” Rahman touched heights of the art of poetry. The horizons of simplicity and artfulness were crossed by him and that’s why he became “The Poet of Pashtuns”, to be loved and admired by each and every Pashtun since then