Alif Allah chambay di booti, murshid mann wich laaee [My master has planted the jasmine plant of Allah’s Alif in my heart.] ... As we move into the modern era of Urdu poetry, ...

Hamd is a poetic genre that exclusively praises Allah. The word hamd comes from Arabic root ‘h,m,d’ and it literally means to praise. The Arabic word Muhammad is also derived from the same ...

Poetry of some classical Urdu poets such as Insha Allah Khan Insha (died 1817) and Mushafi (died 1824) has ample proofs that certain words of European origin had been borrowed by the Urdu language ...

Muslim poets have waxed eloquent not only on Hindu festivals but also on Hindu deities like Shiva, as their poetry is about communal harmony and co-mingling of cultures, writes Rakhshanda Jalil ...

Lovers of Urdu poetry often debate Mir's supremacy over Ghalib and vice versa. Ghalib himself acknowledged, through some of his couplets, that Mir was indeed a genius who deserved respect.