draft Urdu poets and writers of Agra

Muslim Saleem reciting his ghazals at Jashn-e-Muslim Saleem at MP Urdu Academy, Bhopal on December 30, 2012.

(The poetry portion of this site is edited by Muslim Saleem, who is poet, writer and journalist of repute. Muslim Saleem’s ash’ar are widely popular due to being connected with grassroots. It was his idea that we created this directory of Urdu poets and writers of Madhya Pradesh-Chief Editor,Ataullah Faizan and Editor (Abdul Ahad Farhan) (See Muslim Saleem’s poetry with English and Hindi translations at this web site, muslimsaleem.blogspot.com and muslimsaleem.wordpress.com) Email: muslimsaleem@rediffmail.com mobiles: 9009217456, 9893611323 phone 0755-2730580. Muslim Saleem is an alumni of Aligarh Muslim University and is DCE of Hindustan Times, Bhopal. Related directories: Urdu poets and writers of India and Urdu poets and writers of Madhya Pradesh on khojkhabarnews.com’s poetry section)

(Note the list of deceased litterateurs in the end of this directory)

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Zindagi ki tarah bikhar jaayen……kyun ham aise jiyen ki mar jaayen

kar di meeras waarison ke sipurd….zindagi kis ke naam mar jaayen

rooh ke karb ka kuchh mudaawa no tha….

doctor neend ki goiyan likh gaya

wo dekhne mein ab bhi tanawar darakht hai

haalanke waqt khod chuka hai jaden tamam.

From Left) Zafar Naseemi, MP Urdu Academy Chairman Saleem Qureshi, Dr. Barqi Azmi, Prof Afaq Ahmad, Dr. Qasim Niazi, Muslim Saleem at Jashn-e-Muslim Saleem at MP Urdu Academy, Bhopal on December 30, 2012.

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MUSLIM SALEEM’S TAZA KALAM

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Dedicated to Hazrat Nazeer Akbarabadi

Nazeer Akbarabadi’s verses on Akbarabad (Agra).

Nazeer Akbarabadi (real name “Wali Muhammad”) was an Urdu poet of 18th century who wrote Urdu ghazals and nazms under nom de plume “Nazeer”. His father was Muhammad Farooq and his mother was the daughter of Nawab Sultan Khan who was the governor of Agra Fort. Agra, the Indian city, was known as Akbarabad after Mughal emperor Akbar at that time.

Nazeer’s date of birth is not certain but most of his biographers believe that he was born in Delhi (then called “Dihli”) in 1735 AD. The period of his birth coincided with the decline of the Mughal empire in India. In 1739 Nazeer was still a child when Nadir Shah attacked Delhi and Muhammad Shah Rangeela was arrested. He was later released but countless people were mercilessly killed in Delhi. The horrors of this plunder were still fresh in the minds of people when 18 years later, in 1757 AD, Ahmad Shah Abdali attacked Delhi. People left Delhi for safer cities. Nazeer along with his mother and grandmother also abandoned Delhi and migrated to Akbarabad. At this time Nazeer was 80 years old.

He left for us about 600 ghazals, although his nazms are said to be more worthy of admiration. In fact, Nazeer’s growing popularity is due to his nazms. He was purely a “People’s poet” and his nazms reflected various aspects of the daily life of his age, all types of religious and social events with even minor details in which common people can be seen laughing, singing, teasing, playing. He wrote nazams about religious and social festivals, such as Diwali, Holi, Eid, Shab-e-baraat, about fruits and about animals and birds, about seasons and even inanimate objects, such as paisa, rupaiaa, rotiyaan, aata-daal (meaning “flour” and “lentils”), “pankha” (meaning “fan”) and “kakrhi” (a kind of cucumber). He wrote nazms about different aspects of human life, such as “muflisi” (Urdu word meaning “poverty”) and “kohrinamah” (chronicle of a leper). The canvas of Nazeer’s nazms is so vast that it encompasses all aspects of human behavior and every person can find nazms that can suit his taste.

Nazeer Akbarabadi’s contemporaries were Mirza Muhammad Rafi Sauda, Mir Taqi Mir, Sheikh Qalandar Bakhsh Jur’at, Inshallah Khan Insha, and Ghulam Hamdani Mushafi. He was young during the age of Sauda and Mir and might be a middle aged man during the age of Jur’at, Insha and Mushafi.

Nazeer died in 1830 AD, at 98. It is said that Nazeer’s poetic treasure consisted of about 200,000 verses but unfortunately a bigger portion of it is destroyed and only 6000 verses are available in printed form. No other Urdu poet used as many words as Nazeer did. Nazeer’s poetry conveyed the plight of the common people in their own everyday language and was very popular among the masses. It was due to this lack of the “elite” element perhaps that Nazir’s genius was not recognized until much later. But in spite of this neglect, some of his poetic treasure is still available and some of his poems, such as “Banjara Nama” (chronicle of a nomad/gypsy), “Kaljug nahin karjug hai yeh”, “Aadmi Naama” (chronicle of man), etc., became immortal. Such poems find their place in school text books and discerning fans of Urdu poetry will not fail to recognize the greatness of Nazeer’s verse.

Though the era of modern nazm credits Altaf Hussain Hali and Muhammad Husain Azad, Nazeer could arguably be considered “Father of Urdu Nazm” because he preceded them.

(Muslim Saleem writes on April 6, 2011

As a poet, Nazeer was firmly connected with the grassroots. Nazeer Akbarabadi has written ghazals and poems in chaste Urdu at a time when most of the poets and writers used Arabisised and Persianised Urdu language. For a long time, Urdu critics continued to ignore Nazeer Akbarabadi until the new generation realised

his worth and termed him as the pioneer of modern Urdu nazm. Nazeer Akbarabadi wrote poems on almost every subject some of which include 1. “sab thaath pada rah jaye ga jab laad chale ga banjara” 2. “Tab dekh baharen Holi ki” and 3. “Adminama”.)

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Urdu poets and writers of Agra

Agra ke aduaba-o-shuara

(Note: this directory is still in the making. Those interested can send material and pictures to me on

muslimsaleem@rediffmail.com

Muslim Saleem)

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Asad Tamanna Akbarabadi

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Ahmar Jalesari: Poet: 4/M, MIG, Shaheed Nagar, Agra (UP)-282001. Mobile: 093597756301.

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Asrar Akbarabadi: Poet. Address: E-3-600, Shaheed Nagar, Agra.

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Aseer Akbarabadi

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Dil Taj Mahli

 ADDRESS;;;;– Dil Taj Mahali, 108, Limra Square Complex,. Raj. Pur Chungi,.. Shamsabad Road, AGRA 282001 (U.P.) India cell No. 09412516386

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Hanif Syed: Short story writer and novelist: 12/34, Sui Katra, Agra-282002. Mob: 09236431364.

(see details in “Urdu poets and writers of Shahjahanpur” on http://www.muslimsaleem.wordpress.com)

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Hyder Ali Rind Akbarabadi

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Kalam Ahmad

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Khalish Akbarabadi

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Laeeq Akbarabadi

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Mahmood Akbarabadi

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Qayyum Meo

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Rahat Qadri

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Saeedullah Mahir Akbarabad

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Shahid Saleem

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Suroor Marehrawi

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Tayyab A. Kazmi

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Dr. Zafar Akbarabadi, poet. He is a resident of Kanpur and not Agra. Address: 69/88, A-Prem Nagar, Chaman Ganj, Kanpur.

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Z Hasan

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Azadi ke baad ke shuara

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Naye shuara

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Maujooda shuara

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Urdu poets and writers of Agra by Muslim Saleem

this directory has been shifted to

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