POETRY AND PHILOSOPHY
" What though but a lonely dreamer,
Let me have consoling dreams.
Let me dream to find the real
In the heart of all that seems.'1
These lines reveal the true spirit of Sir Nizamat
Jung's poetry and philosophical outlook. He
" dreams to find the Real;" and this, the prac-
tical side of his dreaming, has guided him through
life. It was natural that poetry should come
to him as the best form of self-expression in his
quest of the Real, and that it should become more
and more spiritualised as he advanced in years,
so as to be the expression of his philosophy and
religion.
There are only a few persons in Hyderabad or
elsewhere, who have any intimate knowledge of
his writings v Mrs. Sarojini Naidu was one of the
first to recognise the merit of his poems more than
thirty years ago, when some of his sonnets were
published in the Comrade in 1908-9 by the late
Maulana Mohammad All—& great admirer.
But in spite of this and the occasional appear-
ance of some of his poems in Islamic Culture,
edited by the late Mr. Pickthall, he is not
yet sufficiently known here as a poet; and what-
ever little information we have, comes to us from
England. The reason lies obviously in his modes-
ty; he disliked publicity and wrote only to