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    Comparative Discourse Analysis of Khawaja Ghulam Farid’s Selected Saraiki Poetry and Huxley’s Mystic Tropes
    (University of Management and Technology, 2018) Kashif, Afsheen
    The research aims to investigate the Saraiki poetry of Khawaja Ghulam Farid (1845-1901), a legendary mystic poet and a great scholar of the 19th century. For the purpose of current research, the mystic tropes proposed by Aldous Huxley have not only been employed as a model for comparison but his selected essays have also been analyzed to consolidate the analysis of the theme of ‘Oneness’ in Khawaja Ghulam Farid’s selected poetry. Aldous Huxley’s mysticism is taken as a model because although being from different cultural, geographical, and religious backgrounds, Khawaja Ghulam Farid and Huxley convey the same spiritual message. The present study brings forward the collateral likeliness of the Mystic approach of both literary figures. The research highlights the role of spiritualism in the present world choked with materialism. The research also aims to understand not only the semantic aspect of the theme of ‘Oneness’ in Khawaja Ghulam Farid’s poetry but also to explore the pragmatic dimensions through the thematic, connotative and contextual understanding of his Saraiki Kafis. The study is a descriptive research based on qualitative paradigm. The research design will be drawn from James Paul Gee’s method of Discourse Analysis, which is the study of language in use. Through Discourse Analysis, the significance of the poetry of Khawaja Ghulam Farid in his era and in the present social context will be studied. The study is a step towards unveiling the broad spectrum of Khawaja Ghulam Farid’s Sufi poetry in particular and the poetry of great Sufi poets in general. The discourse analytical study finds that the philosophy of ‘Oneness’, although exists in different forms, spreads out the same message for all religions and beings