[3] It gained a rapid cult-following as a leftist[4][5] song of resistance and defiance,[6] after a public rendition by Iqbal Bano at Alhamra Arts Council[7][8] on 13 February 1986,[9] ignoring the ban on Faiz's poetry.
[10][11][12][13][14][15][16] Faiz employs the metaphor of traditional Islamic imagery to subvert and challenge Zia's fundamentalist interpretation of them; Qayamat, the Day of Reckoning is transformed into the Day of Revolution, wherein Zia's military government will be ousted by the people and democracy will be re-installed.
[15][17] The song was recreated in Coke Studio Season 11 on 22 July 2018, under the aegis of Zohaib Kazi and Ali Hamza.
[25] The student media body rejected the charges as being misinformed and communal, which divorced the poem from its societal context.
Encouraged and directed by Dr. Sunil Kainthola, local artists who were participating in a production orientation workshop for 'Mukhjatra' sang the Garhwali version of Hum Dekhenge in front of the Uttarakhand movement's martyrs monument in the court compound at Dehradun.