Faiz Ahmed Faiz remains a towering figure in Pakistani history and Urdu poetry. Faiz is a Pakistani poet and journalist, who combined in his poetry the themes of love, beauty, and political ideals into a vision of a better world and goodness. He gained fame with his poems written in Urdu. Due to his opposition to the government and military dictators, Faiz spent several years in prison and was forced to go into exile at different times in his career. Next to Muhammad Iqbal , Faiz is one of the best-known poets of Pakistan