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  HAMD A  Hamd  is a poem or song in praise of Allah. It is usually written in Arabic, Persian or Urdu. The word  Hamd  comes from the Quran, the holy book of Allah. The meaning of  Hamd   is Allah’s word or praise to Allah. Its prose is beautiful and is sung with soft melodies. Hamd  is sung and recited all over the world by Muslims. The Purity of Hamd is best absorbed in Urdu language. The prose used in Urdu will make this poem appealing. Hamd  has a great place in Urdu poetry. One of its grand characteristics is that it sets forth its claims with respect to Allah and its excellent qualities and prose furnishes the proof of devotion to the almighty god Allah. It is usually written taking the words from the holy Quran whose grand characteristic is not possessed by any other book in the world. Out of the reasons and proofs that it has set forth in support of its Divine origin and its high-grade superiority as no human being could and can ever...

  NAAT A  Naat  is a poetry that specifically praises the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Commonly it is also called as  Naat -E-Sharif. In Urdu language  Naat  is usually referred to as praise or poetry to the Prophet Muhammad. It is a religious poetry usually written in Urdu, Turkish, Persian, Arabic and Sindhi language. Many of the famous scholars in the earlier days of Islam wrote  Naat . People who recite  Naat  are known as  Naat   Khuaan or Sanaa Khuaan. Islamic poetry is rich in the praise of Prophet Muhammad. Rarely has there been any Muslim poet who has not written about Prophet Muhhamad in his poetry. This is mainly inspired from the Islamic Hadith that each act of veneration will result in ten blessings of God on the person who venerates in praise of Muhammad. There are no records of when  Naat  was initiated in the history. On a more regularized basis, Prophet Muhammad’s companion Hasan ibne Thabit st...

  MANQABAT A  Manqabat  is a Sufi devotional poem which is written in praise of Imam Ali Ibne Abi Talib, the son in law of Prophet Muhammad or a Sufi saint. There were many poets in Islamic History who have written a lot in praise of Imam Ali in their poems. Manqabat  is also a part of poetry. The  Manqabat   prose is implicitly understood to be spiritual in its meaning, even though the lyrics can sometimes sound wildly secular or outright devotional. The central themes of  Manqabat  are love, devotion and praise of holy saint. It is one of the forms of Qawwali. It is performed mainly at Sufi shrines or Dargahs. It was basically sung in South Asia but has gained global popularity now.  Manqabat  have received an international appeal from many of famous Urdu poets and singers. In Qawwali,  Manqabat  is sung to music. The most well known of the Qawwalli  manqabat  is “man kunto maula” which is written by Amir Khusrau in...

  GHAZAL The  ghazal  (Arabic/Pashto/Persian/Urdu: غزل; Hindi: ग़ज़ल, Punjabi: ਗ਼ਜ਼ਲ, Turkish:  Gazel , Bengali: গ়জ়ল, Gujarati: ગ઼ઝલ) is a poetic form consisting of rhyming couplets and a refrain, with each line sharing the same meter. A  ghazal  may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain. The form is ancient, originating in 6th century Arabic verse. It is derived from the Arabian panegyricqasida. The structural requirements of the ghazal are similar in stringency to those of the Petrarchan sonnet. In its style and content it is a genre which has proved capable of an extraordinary variety of expression around its central themes of love and separation. It is one of the principal poetic forms which the Indo-Perso-Arabic civilization offered to the eastern Islamic world. Urdu Ghazal The ghazal spread into Sou...

  URDU POETRY Urdu poetry  reached is peak in the 19th century. The most well-developed vessel of poetry has turned out to be the ghazal, which has by far exceeded all other forms of Urdu poetry by its quality and quantity within the cosmos of Urdu. Best Urdu Poetry Poets 13th-century: Amir Khusro 16th century: Muhammad Quli Qutub Shah – wrote poetry primarily in Persian, but also in Hindavi 17th century: Wali Mohammed Wali Deccani Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan 18th century: Faaiz Dehlvi Khan Arzu Mubarak Abru Mir Taqi Mir Nazeer Akbarabadi Khwaja Mir Dard 19th century: Mirza Salaamat Ali Dabeer Mir Babar Ali Anis Bahadur Shah II Mirza Sauda Mirza Ghalib Mohammad Ibrahim Zauq Dagh Dehlvi 20th century: Altaf Hussain Maulana Hali Akbar Allahabadi Muhammad Iqbal Hasrat Mohani Amjad Hyderabadi Fani Badayuni Yagana Changezi Akhtar Shirani Miraji Seemab Akbarabadi Aarzoo Lakhnawi Jigar Moradabadi Firaq Gorakhpuri Hafeez Jalandhari Josh Malihabadi Ahsan Danish Saghar Nizami Mehr Lal Soni...

  NAZM Nazm  is a major part of urdu poetry, that is normally written in rhymed verse and also in modern prose style poems.  Nazm   is a beautiful poetry describing the simple language in terms of rhymes or poems. Many poets express their gratitude towards their life in  Nazms . There are various forms of  Nazm  like Naat, Qawwwali, Hamd, Qasida, Salam, Marsiya and much more. This is written in many languages but basically in Urdu, Persian and Hindi. This is usually recited on special occasions or at any holy place.  Nazm ’s are different from other poetry as they are written in different manner. Some  Nazm ’s are sad and it describes grieving or weeping phrases about some sad event or happening whereas some are of expressing happiness and joy.  urdu best nazms There were many famous poets of  Nazm  writing like Nazeer Akarabadi, Iqbal, Josh, Firaq, Ahtarul Iman and many who have contributed a lot to this genre. These people ha...

  URDU LITERARY CRITICISM Abdul Qavi Desnavi Muhammad Husain Azad Altaf Hussain Maulana Hali Shibli Nomani Abdur Rahman Bijnori Allama Niyaz Fatehpuri Rasheed Ahmad Siddiqi Syed Abid Ali Abid Ehtesham Hussain Syed Waqar Azeem Majnun Gorakhpuri Mumtaz Hussain Ali Sardar Jafri Malik Ram Gopi Chand Narang Shamsur Rahman Faruqi Gyan Chand Wazir Agha Waris Alwi Gopi Chand Narang Muzaffar Hanfi Aslam Farrukhi Progressive Writers Movement/ ( ترقی پسند تحریک) According to The Dawn, “Progressive Writers Movement” in Urdu literature was the strongest movement after Sir Syed’s education movement. The progressives contributed to  Urdu literature  some of the finest pieces of fiction and poetry. Undoubtedly, they were the trend-setters for the coming generation of writers, and their role cannot be denigrated or denied.” [1] Aamir Sohail(Abbottabad Public School,Abbottabad,Pakistan) Modernism The modernist movement started in Urdu literature near 1960. The two most eminent names in thi...

  MARSIYA Marsiya   is an elegy typically composed about the death of Hasan, Husain, or their relatives. Each stanza has six lines, with the rhyme scheme aaaabb.[2] The famous marsia writers who inherited the tradition of Mir Anis among his successive generations are Mir Nawab Ali ‘Munis’, Dulaha Sahab ‘Uruj’, Syed Mohammed Mohsin (Jaunpuri), Mustafa Meerza urf Piyare Sahab ‘Rasheed’, Syed Muhammad Mirza Uns, Ali Nawab ‘Qadeem’, Syed Sajjad Hussain “Shadeed” Lucknavi, Allama, Dr.Syed Ali Imam Zaidi, “Gauher” Luckhnavi the great grandson of Mir Babber Ali Anis. Best Urdu Marsiya