Comparative Study of Vajhi's Sab Ras and SibakNeishabouri's Lover's Face, Heart and Instructions

Asadollah a member of Vajhi family became the poet laureate of the court. He was a prominent poet and writer of Persian and Urdu who became famous as “GhalebDakn”. Vajhi is the first Urdu prose writer and his book “Sab Ras” is known as the first Urdu prose work. His other book “GhotbeMoshtari” made him become known as the first critic of Urdu Language. In this latter book he has paid attention to the criteria and principles of criticizing poems and poetry. The book is still valuable today. Content analysis of the book “Sab Ras” which is the first Sophist allegorical work in Urdu shows that the writer has been under the influence of the famous sections by Fattahi or SibakNeishabouri. The present article studies this influence and brings in instances to prove it.