Fayez lived during the reign of the last Qutb Shahi ruler, Abul Hasan Tana Shah (1672–1686) of Golconda. Dr. Muhammad Ali Asar has published a few of his couplets and identified his real name as Muhammad Zamaan. A few years before the fall of the Golconda dynasty, in 1682 (1094 AH), Fayez composed a mathnavi titled Rizwan Shah o Rooh Afza. Originally written as a prose qissa, he later rendered it into verse. As the mathnavi contains no praise of the sultan, it is assumed that Fayez was a contemporary rather than a court poet.

The mathnavi was also compiled by Syed Muhammad, and published by Majlis e Isha’at e Dakni Makhtootat and Dakhni Sahitya Parkashan Sameti in 1952. (available in our collections)

Dr. Shareef has also discovered several marsiyahs by Fayez. Notably, Dr. A. Sprenger (d. 1893, Heidelberg), an Austrian orientalist, referred to him as فائض instead of فائز in his cataloguing.

Further Readings:
1. Hashmi, Naseer-Uddin. Dakan MeiN Urdu. 1st ed., Taraqqi Urdu Bureau, 1985
2. Shareef, Muhammad Jamaal. Dakan meiN Urdu Shayeri Wali Se Pehle. Edited by Muhammad Ali Asar. Hyderabad: Idara-e-Adabiyat-e-Urdu, 2004.
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