Naz Khialvi (1947-2010, real name: Muhammad Siddique) was a Pakistani poet and radio broadcaster from near the city of Faisalabad, most famous for his poem “Tum Ik Gorakh Dhanda Ho”. This philosophically and spiritually rich text explores the paradoxes of religion like the prevalence of evil and injustice, selective divine intervention, and other indecipherable aspects of God. The poem also points toward the unity of human religious experiences. At the end, after listing his grievances, the bewildered poet ultimately accepts divine incomprehensibility. कभी यहाँ तुम्हें ढूँढा, कभी वहाँ पहुँचा तुम्हारी दीद की ख़ातिर कहाँ-कहाँ ...
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