A calligraphy exhibition held at Defence Services Officers Mess

Lahore : A calligraphy exhibition of art pieces prepared by Lieutenant General (retired) Humayun Khan Bangash was held at Defence Services Officers Mess today.

Lieutenant General (retired) Humayun Khan Bangash, a former Commander Lahore Corps and ex Pakistan Ambassador to Turkey joined the calligraphy department of Institute of Traditional Studies and Art at Lahore after retirement. Since then he has been ardently pursuing his passion for learning this traditional Islamic Art. His art pieces are based on Khat-e-Suls.

They depict his originality of ideas, while following the rules of Khat-e-Suls in portraying Quranic verses in its true colour and meaning as enjoined in the Holy Scripture. This not only touches the eyes but also the heart thus mesmerising and inspiring the viewer to revisit the past Muslim renaissance and glory in the sub continent in general and the Islamic World in particular.

Lieutenant General (retired) Humayun Khan Bangash through the medium of his calligraphic pieces has done a great service especially to the youth to attract and encourage them to take greater pride in their own heritage, art and culture which is much superior and marvelled by the West.

Besides Pakistan, the art work of Lieutenant General (retired) Humayun Khan Bangash, who is now 75 years old, developed the passion for calligraphy at the age of 70 and has been equally recognised for his work in Turkey and Japan.

Islamic calligraphy fondly known as ‘Music of the Eyes’, blossomed from the time of Hazrat Ali and had an un-interrupted patronage of almost all Muslim Rulers in all parts of the world. In words of Lieutenant General (retired) Humayun Khan Bangash calligraphy is an art where few verses on a single piece of paper surpasses the effort of voluminous books and opens one’s mind to the new insights thus inspiring and connecting our existence with the Sublime.