Will the future generations read our great poets in English?

Saqeb Akbar, Islamabad, Pakistan
In September 1994, I was in Istanbul. My kind host Allama Hameed Tooran sent an engineering student Yusuf Axel to accompany me. This young man could speak English a little bit; I along with Yusuf, my wife and two daughters visited the popular museum of Istanbul Topkapi. The glorious museum has a collection of many ancient antiques, manuscripts and plaques.
Old Turkish writing is based on Arabic and Persian characters. As I was already reading Arabic and Persian plaques, Turkish manuscripts were also somehow underst