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from Hindi and Urdu: An acknowledged leader in a field, from the Mughal rulers of India like Akbar and Shah Jahan, the builder of the Taj Mahal. Maharaja. from Hindi and Sanskrit: A great king. Mantra. from Hindi and Sanskrit: a word or phrase used in meditation. Masala.
Kafir (Arabic: كَافِر, romanized:kāfir; plural:كَافِرُونkāfirūn, كُفَّارkuffār, or كَفَرَةkafara; feminine:كَافِرَةkāfira; feminine plural:كَافِرَاتkāfirāt or كَوَافِرkawāfir) is an Arabic term in Islam which refers to a person who disbelieves the God in Islam, denies his authority ...
t. e. () () Apostasy in Islam (Arabic: ردة, romanized:ridda or ارتداد, irtidād) is commonly defined as the abandonment of Islam by a Muslim, in thought, word, or through deed. It includes not only explicit renunciations of the Islamic faith by converting to another religion [ 1 ] or abandoning religion, [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] but also ...
Shah Abdul Qadir Raipuri was the first person who translated The Quran into Urdu. [81] During Shahjahan's time, the Capital was relocated to Delhi and named Shahjahanabad and the Bazar of the town was named Urdu e Muallah. [82] [83] In the Akbar era the word Rekhta was used to describe Urdu for the first time. It was originally a Persian word ...
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) and ...
Youm-e-Takbir (Urdu: یومِ تکبیر; lit. The day of greatness ) is celebrated as a national day in Pakistan on May 28 in commemoration of Chagai-I and Chagai-II series of nuclear tests. The nuclear tests made Pakistan the seventh nation to possess nuclear weapons and the first in the Muslim world.
While ghazal originated in Arabia evolving from qasida, some of the common features of contemporary ghazal, such as including the takhallus in the maqta ', the concept of matla', etc., did not exist in Arabic ghazal.
Roman Urdu is the name used for the Urdu language written with the Latin script, also known as Roman script. According to the Urdu scholar Habib R. Sulemani: "Roman Urdu is strongly opposed by the traditional Arabic script lovers. Despite this opposition it is still used by most on the internet and computers due to limitations of most ...