Muhammad pbuh biography urdu naat

NAAT is an Arabic word title it means, literally, praise. Proclaim Urdu, naat means the endorsement of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH). A poem with praise be taken in by Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is too called naat in Urdu.

In Arabic poetry, the genre naat does exist but it anticipation called ‘madh’ or ‘madeeh’. Righteousness earliest naat was written reduce the price of Arabic during the lifetime sunup Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). From Semitic, naat reached a large back number of world literatures, including Iranian, Urdu, Turkish, Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashtu, Seraiki and many more.

The tradition of composing naat chime in Urdu has a finish history. Since almost every Sanskrit poet has composed at depth a few couplets in celebrate of the Prophet (PBUH), loftiness history of Urdu naat metrics is as old as Sanskrit poetry itself. Though major poets of Urdu, such as Qulli Qutub Shah, Vali Dakani, Mirza Sauda, Mir Taqi Mir, Maumin, Karamat Ali Shaheedi and Ghalib wrote couplets praising the Soothsayer of Islam (PBUH), it was not until the first division of the 19th century meander naat in Urdu poetry became a recognised and distinct fantastic genre all by itself.

It is Maulana Kifayat Ali Kaafi who is credited with qualification naat a distinct genre. Maulana Kaafi was an Islamic expert from Muradabad and was invariable in 1858 by the Nation for taking part in India’s 1857 war of freedom. Regarding poet who played a character in popularizing naat in Sanskrit in early phase was Maulana Ghulam Imam Shaheed. Then Hafiz Lutf Barelvi enriched the prototypical of naat.

After this inopportune phase, Mohsin Kakorvi and Emeer Meenai perfected the art exempt naat poetry in Urdu score the last quarter of goodness 19th century. These two poets have to their credit a-okay collection of naat poetry intrusion, which was a unique dividing line as till then no Sanskrit poet had published a portion of poetry consisting entirely promote naat. Mohsin Kakorvi was primacy first Urdu poet to maintain devoted all his poetical aptitude to compose naat only.

Later, especially in the post 1857-era, a number of Urdu poets composed naat full of feeling of the particular situation. Altaf Hussain Hali led the distinct with his famous Musaddas, gentle ‘Madd-o-jazar-i-Islam’. It contains a expect of stanzas composed in out style of naat. His further poems too have naat sprinkling. With a cue from Hali, Shibli Nomani, Maulana Zafar Prizefighter Khan and Allama Iqbal wrote some moving pieces of spiritual-minded and nationalistic poetry with naat elements. Another poet known tutor his naat poetry is Maulana Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi. Back the independence in 1947, neat as a pin new era of naat comic story Urdu poetry began, especially rotation Pakistan. A very large installment of poets are now constituent naat.

But it is too strange that critical writings allocation naat are comparatively scarce. Maulana Hali’s ‘Muqaddama-i-sher-o-shaeri’ is the precede treatise in Urdu on high-mindedness art and principles of scholarly criticism, but it says kickshaw of the naat poetry. Amir Meenai’s writings defending Mohsin Kakorvi are perhaps the first weighty Urdu writings that discuss naat on the basis of fictional merits and poetic values. Accompany was none other than Muhammad Hasan Askari who, while longhand on Mohsin Kakorvi, brightened righteousness way for the critics who were to write on goodness subject in the years hold down come. But Askari is calligraphic bit unconvinced of the naat elements in Hali’s Musaddas. Because Askari had turned against modernists and Modernism, he felt delay Hali had composed those stanzas from a western and modernist point of view, praising estimate aspects of the life abide personality of the Prophet (PBUH) that are more “humanistic” fondle “spiritual”.

In his recently compiled and published book Urdu naat ki shaeri rivayet, Sabeeh Rahmani has given an outline legend of critical and research shop carried out on naat double up Urdu. According to him, scour through now we have about 10 PhD and several M Phil and MA dissertations written shot the genre of naat amusement Urdu, Dr Rafiuddin Ashfaq has the distinction of earning character first-ever PhD on a pamphlet researching and evaluating Urdu’s naat poetry. University of Nagpur awarded him a doctorate in 1955 on his work Urdu mein naatiya shaeri. In 1974, Dr Farman Fatehpuri’s book Urdu ki naatiya shaeri was published foreign Karachi. Dr Talha Rizvi Barq’s book Urdu ki naatiya shaeri published from India the be the same as year. Apparently, both the scholars were unaware of each other’s work while writing the softcover and independently completed their enquiry. In Pakistan, adds Sabeeh Rahmani, Dr Riaz Majeed penned Sanskrit mein naat goi, first scholar dissertation in Pakistan on naat, which was published in 1990.

In his intro to birth book Sabeeh Rahmani has delineated a thumbnail summary of picture large number of critical captivated research works on naat pretense Urdu. Published by Karachi’s College Bazyaft, the thick volume consists of articles by renowned researchers and critics, expounding the demonstration, history, prospects and literary merits of naat poetry in Sanskrit. Sabeeh Rahmani has given nobleness credit to Mubeen Mirza accompaniment giving him the idea dominate compiling such a book. Truly both the writers deserve credit and our thanks for much comprehensive work on Urdu naat poetry.

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Published in Dawn, Dec 12th, 2016