Story-Novelist Ibn Safi: An art graduate whose creative power was no less than that of a scientist

 

Novelist Ibn Safi: An art graduate whose creative power was no less than that of a scientist

        

Ibn Safi holds a unique place among Urdu writers. In the beginning, the critics of literature did not consider him worthy of attention, but then all became captives of his pen.

Ibn Safi's pen journey spans 28 years. During this journey, he created about two and a half hundred novels which were published under the name of Detective World and Imran Series.

In January 1952, the world's first detective novel, The Brave Criminal, was published, and in August 1955, the first novel in the Imran series, The Terrible Building, was published.

This continued until his death. In these novels, he invented a new world in which crime was eliminated with the help of new methods and inventions.

Irfan Javed, a well-known author on science fiction, writes in his book, Museums, that "surprisingly, many novels and fictions in the West have led to scientific inventions." From these novels new ideas arose which gave rise to buds of new possibilities and a few noisy heads were determined and successful in shaping the idea. The story of man is in fact the story of noisy heads.

Martin Cooper invented the first mobile phone in the 1970s. He credits the invention to the TV serial Star Trek based on a novel. This American series affected an entire generation (including the Pakistani race). One of the many newer devices was the Communicator. It was a cordless phone and also the ancestor of modern mobile phones.

French thinker and novelist Jules Verne is also called the "father of science fiction". His best-selling novels include "Journey to the Seed of the Earth", "In 80 Days Around the World" and "A Thousand Legs Under the Sea".

Jules Verne envisioned an electric submarine. The submarine was named Nautilus. The idea impressed a boy named Simon Lake so much that he set about inventing it and eventually built the world's first submarine. Simon named it Argonaut.

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Jules Verne, in an 1865 novel, gave a surprisingly accurate description of the details of man's landing on the moon. In fact, man was able to set foot on the moon 104 years after the novel was written. Gravity on the moon is lower than on the earth, which is why man cannot step on the moon like the earth.

Jules Verne writes in 1865, among other details, that "the three of them felt that their bodies had lost weight. Even if he stretched out his arms, there was no danger of falling. Their heads moved over their shoulders, their feet did not freeze and they were as unstable as men addicted to drugs.

The year is 1909. Telephones were not yet common. Well-known thinker and writer Mark Twain sketched an invention in his story "From the London Times of 1904" which he called the "Telekatro Scope". She establishes a world wide network (www) through the invention telephone system, through which information is exchanged. That's how Mark Twain introduced the concept of the Internet.

Numerous inventions in Western science fiction are mentioned in detail that came into being later. It was as if the mind had access to Narsa through this medium. Among them is the Automated Face Recognition, which has become commonplace in today's touch screen phones, in the novel Darwin's Descendants by Greg Beer. Similarly, among other inventions, touch tablets, drones, e-paper and countless other devices and objects were introduced in fiction.

Ibn Safi's biographer Rashid Ashraf, in his book Ibn Safi, Personality and Art, under the heading of Western influences on Ibn Safi's writings, wrote: He explained that eight of his novels (up to that time) had been borrowed from the West.

"My first novel was A Brave Criminal. It was the first novel, so it needed some external support, so its main idea was taken from Western literature, but Hamid and Faridi were my own characters. In addition, there are other novels in the spy world whose plots I took from English, such as the mysterious stranger, the murder of the dancer, the diamond mine, the bloody stone. Apart from these five novels, you will not find any of my 102 novels whose plot is not my own. All of Imran's novels are spotless.

In an interview recorded for Radio Pakistan Karachi's program "Aap Janab" many years after the publication of "Cloud of the Earth", Ibn Safi spoke openly for the first time about Western influences on his writings. This very important dialogue can be seen below:

"You won't find any story in them whose plot is taken from English and you won't find any such character. The five novels whose plots I have taken from English are not translations. I have a claim on each of them. "

Ibn Safi

Najam-ul-Hasnain: What are the effects of outside behavior on your thoughts, especially on espionage?

Ibn Safi: Look, it is certain that the detective novel came to us from outside. So obviously I wrote from the outside, but it will have the same effect on my literature as it has on society. If I write about a class that is overshadowed by the West, then obviously there will be reflections in my writing as well. Because of this, sometimes people say that they are presenting Anglo-Urdu literature, not Urdu literature.

'brother! See also what class I am representing. When I speak of the middle or lower class, the shadows of the West will not be found there, but when a caste is affected by the West and I speak of it, the shadows of the West will be found.

Rashid Ashraf quotes an article by Muhammad Aslam Ghazi which mentions the scientific inventions which are present in the writings of Ibn Safi.

According to Muhammad Aslam Ghazi, Ibn Safi was an arts graduate but his imagination was no less than that of a scientist. In his novels, he introduced such mind-boggling machines and devices that really came into being thirty, forty years later.

In Seventh Island, for example, he introduced the Identity Cast Equipment, which allows Colonel Faridi to combine the various structures of the face, eyes, nose, and lips with memory to form a criminal. Nowadays, the police and the intelligence agencies use this machine to publish sketches of the faces of the suspects in the daily newspapers.

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He mentions the Confession Chair in many of his novels. Similarly, in 'Moonlight Smoke', Ibn Safi had presented a TV whose pictures could be seen in the air. About twenty-five years ago, a French company held a similar show on Bombay's Gurgaon Chopati beach, which featured pictures in the air.

Similarly, in a novel in the Underland series, Ibn Safi's imagination transmitted man from one place to another like images and sound. It is possible that science will soon discover this latest way of traveling.

Rashid Ashraf writes that the technique presented in the novel called 'Moonlight Smoke' by Aslam Ghazi is known in today's world as Hologram Technology.

Terrible building

Ibn Safi had introduced a robot named Fooladmi in the novel 'Kidnapping of the Storm' of the spy world. It was later successfully tested in Russia. This experience was mentioned by Ibn Safi himself in one of his sermons.

Ibn Safi mentioned Electrogus and Faygrass in his novels in the 1950s. Much later, electrogs came to the world in the form of laser guns, while we can call Faygraz a flying saucer.

In the Imran series novel 'Sabz Laho', a person is fired upon and a thin liquid of green color flows from the clothes on his body. The shooters consider it a supernatural being.

Many years after this novel, a movie called Alien was made in Hollywood in which Alien's blood was shown in green. Later, the same thing was repeated in many places in the American TV serial X-Files. Of course it may be a coincidence but if it is a coincidence it is interesting.

Chris Carter, the creator of X-Files, is a very intelligent man. Rakim believes that Chris Carter's writing and Ibn Safi's novels have significant similarities in technique in many places.

Cloning is a dangerous technology of the modern world that can be used to create identical human beings.

A similar concept was conceived by Ibn Safi in the 1960s in the detective world novel Jungle Fire by introducing a machine that would insert three thin humans on one side and create a powerful guerrilla on the other. Was

Ibn Safi wrote about the scientific inventions in his novels in the prelude to the Imran series novel 'Earthquake Journey': 'The siege of smoke was finally broken. What was inside the fence of smoke? What a catastrophe was brewing. You may laugh at me for a while thinking it is a talisman, but within ten years you will be aware of the existence of such a destructive tactic.

"All these inventions that have become part of your daily routine at this time may have been considered the 'panic' of imaginative artists long ago, but today you are using them yourself." Thirty years ago, when Hollywood made films on the lunar voyage, it was ridiculed by serious Americans, but before today, the United States has been proud to truly walk on its stagnant moon. Have come. '

Imran series

The premise of the Imran series novel 'Sugar Bank' is very important in that Ibn Safi had a lively discussion about scientific inventions. "Today, while the eyes of a dead man can illuminate a blind man, it should not be considered impossible for a mind to be transferred to another body, including all its experiences," he writes.

"Seven or eight years ago, I presented Steelmi in the novel Storm Kidnapping."

Recently, news came from Russia that a 'steelmie' had been created there. He not only controls the traffic but also challans the violations and the way to control it is the same as I wrote. I do not want to accuse the Russians of theft. That is to say, the same idea can arise in the mind of a scientist and a storyteller at the same time. The storyteller makes a pen picture and the scientist gives it a material form in the living world.

Ibn Safi's imaginative scientific inventions were also mentioned by a former assistant professor at NED University in one of his research papers, which was presented at a monthly meeting of Bazm Scientific Literature Karachi.

In this research paper, Naila Hina Khan wrote as a prelude that “Man has always dreamed of turning towards the sky and flying like a bird. Sometimes riding on a Simorgh, sometimes sitting on a flying carpet. Observations of Leonardo da Vinci's old drawings show that he too was searching for the dream of human flight in space. It is a different matter that success came to the Wright brothers and the airplane was invented somewhere in the twentieth century.

Today is the age of puberty of human consciousness but human consciousness and subconscious had to travel for centuries to reach this destination and during this journey Hazrat Man made all kinds of inventions and inventions just on the strength of his imagination. These inventions have always been just an idea, a concept, a dream or a masterpiece of art in the form of first human beings, stories and dream forms or rare art forms, drawings, etc., which eventually emerged as inventions as they progressed.

In this article, Naila Hina Khan mentions the inventions called Electrogus, Fe Graz, Cloning and Steel which we have mentioned above.

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He wrote: “The special thing about Ibn Safi is that in his novels he traveled to different parts of the world and countries where he had never set foot. Nevertheless, when Ibn Safi's readers later saw the places with their own eyes, they found the same scene as Ibn Safi described in his novels.

"It simply came to our notice then. For example, the novel Edlava mentions the Italian lake Como, which is exactly the same as his novel.

Muhammad Khalil, the former editor of the India-based magazine World of Science, rightly writes: "There is no denying the fact that Ibn Safi introduced the general reader to a new direction and fresh ideas in literature which The credit goes only to Ibn Safi.

He turned away from superstitions and forced the people to think scientifically and established a separate identity which has people from all walks of life. If we take a brief look at Ibn Safi's novels, we can see that his novels provide an opportunity to see suspense, adventure, humor, all kinds of writing style.

The style of science fiction in his novels is also very important and it would not be wrong to say that Ibn Safi is the writer who has started a new kind of espionage, science fiction in Urdu. One of the important points of Ibn Safi's stories is that they refute the superstitions and superstitions of ghosts and demons and offer a scientific explanation of every event.

Ibn Safi wrote about his science fiction: "Writing science fiction is not an easy task, yet I tried to satisfy my intelligent readers to some extent. It's easy to combine mind-boggling and far-fetched events into a story, but justifying them is really about turning this magical hosharba into science fiction, and it's a difficult task in a short time. "

Perhaps this power of imagination is the secret of Ibn Safi's success due to which the number of his fans and readers is increasing day by day.