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He grew in Azimabad where the atmosphere was poetic and literary and it was from there he picked up the love for Urdu poetry. He chose the word Bismil (meaning hurt or wounded) as his pen name and became disciple of Khan Bahadur Shad Azimabadi, (1846-1929). [4] [7] He used to frequent Qutub-khana Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu Library, Patna. [8]
Nazm is a significant genre of Urdu and Sindhi poetry; the other one is known as ghazal. Nazm is significantly written by controlling one’s thoughts and feelings, which are constructively discussed as well as developed and finally, concluded, according to the poetic laws.
Urdu poetry (Urdu: اُردُو شاعرى Urdū šāʿirī) is a tradition of poetry and has many different forms. Today, it is an important part of the culture of India and Pakistan . According to Naseer Turabi, there are five major poets of Urdu: Mir Taqi Mir (d. 1810), Mirza Ghalib (d. 1869), Mir Anees (d. 1874), Muhammad Iqbal (d. 1938 ...
Urdu literature (Urdu: ادبیاتِ اُردُو, “Adbiyāt-i Urdū”) comprises the literary works, written in the Urdu language.While it tends to be dominated by poetry, especially the verse forms of the ghazal (غزل) and nazm (نظم), it has expanded into other styles of writing, including that of the short story, or afsana (افسانہ).
Bal-i-Jibril is regarded as the peak of Iqbal's Urdu poetry. It consists of ghazals , poems, quatrains , epigrams and advises the nurturing of the vision and intellect necessary to foster sincerity and firm belief in the heart of the ummah and turn its members into true believers.
Meeraji's literary output was immense but he published very little of his poetry during his lifetime. However, Khalid Hasan, in his article "Meera Sen's forgotten lover," [citation needed] records that during Meeraji's lifetime four collections of Meeraji's works were published by Shahid Ahmed Dehlavi, and one by Maktaba-e-Urdu, Lahore.
"Dastur" (Urdu: دستور) is an Urdu nazm (poem) written by the Pakistani poet Habib Jalib. [1] This poem is also known as "Main Nahi Manta". [2] It comes under the resistance poem category because of its relevance and subject. It is written as a voice of protest to a law introduced by General Ayub Khan in 1962, in Pakistan. [3]
Aab-e hayat (Urdu: آبِ حیات, lit. water of life) is a commentary (or tazkira) on Urdu poetry written by Muhammad Husain Azad in 1880. [1] The book was described as "canon-forming" and "the most often reprinted, and most widely read, Urdu book of the past century." [1] [2] The book is regarded as the first chronological history of Urdu ...