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The present position paper explores to examine select poems of Pakistani poet and writer, Omer Tarin, in the backdrop of Mysticism/Sufism. Investigation of the theme and trope under reference is carried out while randomly selecting poems from Omer Train’s two books, “A Sad Piper” and “Burnt Offering”, published in 1994 and 1996, respectively. The poetic oeuvre is analysed while invoking and employing Reader Response Theory. Reader Response is a creative-critical theory which suggests that a text gains and applies (meaning and message) by the purposeful act of the reader’s reading and interpreting it (Hindi, 2008). A myriad of manifestations of mystical elements and experiences (symbolised and epitomised in the forms of death, ultimate truth, the quintessence of human life, asceticism and soul’s spiritual voyage) are inferred from the current research. His poetry reflects that whosoever aspires for and digs out the reality of life—its meaning and message—and have enthusiastically felt and experienced the itch for divine love (that inclines their hearts to a ‘larger reality’) are, far more different than those who do not do so. Thus, conclusively, the study construes that Tarin’s literary work richly manifests mystical themes and theses, for which he owes much indebtedness to his mystical masters, especially Sufi poets like, Maulana Rumi, Baba Bulleh Shah, Baba Fareed, Rahman Baba and to name a few.

Dr. Tariq Khan , Dr. Inayat Ullah. (2019) Sufism/Mysticism Symbolized in the Select Poetry of Omer Tarin, Al-Azhāar, Volume 5, Issue 2.
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