LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 11 November 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Adab Literature ki Tapashiya

Sohaila Javed, Ph.D.

Abstract

This qualitative hermeneutic paper comes with some “mead of in-spiration” (Kraemer, 2000) … and imagination… in attending to adab literature and its trigonometry of adib (creator of literature), tahdib (educative culture) and adaab (manners), and with its related trigonometry of reading, creativity and criticism, calls literature as the ‘educare’ of human life. The hope of education is that such a mode of being will manifest the word in the world with affection, and let us live well together in the living world. For that matter, it encourages us to take our children to the cultural texts of literature and begin to live and speak from within it. Such transformational praxis will disrupt reductionism, essentialism, and alienation, and initiate a discourse of possibility in these distressing times.

Sensibility of Literature to Life

The co-creative dynamism of literature and life opens us to their symbiotic relationship, and their being together with humanity. Their humanness evokes a family resemblance, images the sensibility of literature to life, and opens us to their existential unity. Necessity brings them together in touching and creating impact upon our souls. Where life is manifestation of Creation, literature mediates between creation and life, and thus becomes the concrete of co-Creation, another Real besides life. To read and see life, read this Real as we are impacted, that is influenced, changed, and directed subtly, in silence. Kuang-Ming Wu (1998) quotes Confucius when telling us to “follow what heart desires without trespassing regulations,” and know something about ourselves through these life-expressions. (Dilthey, 1985). The powerful reality is its capacity to interest us, its ability to alter life, and augment our amour propre.

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Sohaila Javed, Ph.D.
Associate Professor/Additional Director
Quality Enhancement
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
Islamabad, Pakistan
jsohaila@hotmail.com
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