Recapture of the concept of virtual values In Jamila Hashmi's novel

Abstract

Jamila Hashmi (1929-1988) is known as a great novelist in the field of Urdu literature. She had a great devotion for pen and paper. If we look at the literary achievements of Jamila Hashmi, it is very wide. She was a novelist and fiction writer at the same time. She wrote several novels, including a historical novel DASHT-E- SOS this novel was published in 1975.DASHT-E- SOS is based historically about the character of Hussain ibn Mansoor hallaj. Jamila Hashmi has divided this novel into three parts sada-e-saaz, naghma-e-shoq and zamzama-e-moth. The first part is about the beginning of the spiritual journey of Hussain ibn mansoor hallaj, the second part is the longest one it describes the story of evolution and culmination of his spiritual journey and in the part, Hussain ibn Mansoor hallaj accompanied by Death, beside this in this novel, Jamila Hashmi has best portrayed the political, social, moral and economic conditions of the tenth century Abbasid period era.