Sufi Tabassum was not only a professor par excellence at Government College Lahore (now GCU), but an academic institution in himself. Like his other contemporaries like Professor Arnold & Patras Bokhari at GC Lahore, he raised a generation of students who redefined the world of Urdu and Punjabi Literature.
Sufi Tabassum is also one rare author who has admirers at every age group. Pakistani children still grow up fondly memorizing his Tot Batot, Cheen Choo Chacha, and Paanch Choohay. At the same time, Sufi Tabassum was a poet with youthful heart, as his ghazals inject reader with vigor and delight, rather than sorrowful tone very common in Urdu ghazals poets. (RIP)
ضبط کا عہد بھی ہے شوق کا پیمان بھی ہے
عہد و پیماں سے گزر جانے کو جی چاہتا ہے
درد اتنا ہے کہ ہر رگ میں ہے محشر برپا
اور سکوں ایسا کہ مر جانے کو جی چاہتا ہے