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Contribution To Pashto Literature
Besides his reputation as a revolutionary, Pir Roshan invented Pushto script thus ensuring the emergence of Pashto literature and writing, which enabled Khushal Khan Khattak, a century later, in his prolific contributions to Pashto poetry and prose for which Khattak is famous. Pir Roshan realized that Pashto could not be written in Arabic script owing to some of its peculiar sounds. He, therefore, invented 13 alphabets to represent those sounds, thus making written Pashto a reality. Some of these alphabets patched up vocal differences between the hard and soft dialects of Pashto as well. Some people question why Pir Roshan's contribution to Pashto nationalism and Pashto language has been sorely neglected? This is possibly attributed to two reasons: first, he was from the small - but influential - tribe of Baraki, whose mother tongue was Ormuri a Western Persian language not Pashto and whose lineage was attributed via his Baraki roots to the Kurdistan region and could not supposedly be traced to one of the Pashtun confederations, although rumor has it that the Barakzai sons of Barak are originally "Baraki."
Second, his "Roshaniya" movement was militarily crushed over and over although his ideas spread beyond the Pukhtunkhwa region. The victors in a concerted effort demonized the man and his movement as being a "secret cult," and in the minds of many this character assassination stuck. Pir Roshan, however, is credited with writing the first ever book in Pashto language; Khair-ul-Bayan and thus sowing the seed of Pashto literature. The book was thought to be lost but Moulana Abdul Qaadir of Pashto Academy-Peshawar, discovered a hand-written copy of it in a Library of University of Tübingen Germany. Khairul-Bayanâ is written in four languages i.e., Pashto, Persian, and Arabic, and is considered the first book on Pashto prose.
He wrote nearly a dozen books, although less than half of these have survived to modern days, mostly in private and family libraries. His works include, “Khayr al-Bayan”, “Maksud al- Muminin”, “Surat-i Tawhid”, “Fakhr”, “Hal-Nama” “Maksud al- Muminin”, “Surat-i Tawhid”, “Fakhr”, “Hal-Nama” quiet meditation, known as Khilwat.
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Besides his reputation as a revolutionary, Pir Roshan invented Pushto script thus ensuring the emergence of Pashto literature and writing, which enabled Khushal Khan Khattak, a century later, in his prolific contributions to Pashto poetry and prose for which Khattak is famous. Pir Roshan realized that Pashto could not be written in Arabic script owing to some of its peculiar sounds. He, therefore, invented 13 alphabets to represent those sounds, thus making written Pashto a reality. Some of these alphabets patched up vocal differences between the hard and soft dialects of Pashto as well. Some people question why Pir Roshan's contribution to Pashto nationalism and Pashto language has been sorely neglected? This is possibly attributed to two reasons: first, he was from the small - but influential - tribe of Baraki, whose mother tongue was Ormuri a Western Persian language not Pashto and whose lineage was attributed via his Baraki roots to the Kurdistan region and could not supposedly be traced to one of the Pashtun confederations, although rumor has it that the Barakzai sons of Barak are originally "Baraki."
Second, his "Roshaniya" movement was militarily crushed over and over although his ideas spread beyond the Pukhtunkhwa region. The victors in a concerted effort demonized the man and his movement as being a "secret cult," and in the minds of many this character assassination stuck. Pir Roshan, however, is credited with writing the first ever book in Pashto language; Khair-ul-Bayan and thus sowing the seed of Pashto literature. The book was thought to be lost but Moulana Abdul Qaadir of Pashto Academy-Peshawar, discovered a hand-written copy of it in a Library of University of Tübingen Germany. Khairul-Bayanâ is written in four languages i.e., Pashto, Persian, and Arabic, and is considered the first book on Pashto prose.
He wrote nearly a dozen books, although less than half of these have survived to modern days, mostly in private and family libraries. His works include, “Khayr al-Bayan”, “Maksud al- Muminin”, “Surat-i Tawhid”, “Fakhr”, “Hal-Nama” “Maksud al- Muminin”, “Surat-i Tawhid”, “Fakhr”, “Hal-Nama” quiet meditation, known as Khilwat.
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