Sahir Hashmi Adeeb, Kanpuri
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Sahir Hashmi Adeeb was a well-known Urdu Poet of the Modern-Urdu
-literature. His full name was Syed Mohammad Rasheed Hashmi. His poetry is special in the sense that it follows strictly the norms and standards laid by the great Urdu poets and legends but addresses the present day’s ambition, challenges, problems, feelings, passion, pain of a common man. He uses skillfully the idioms, the phrases, the traditional terminology and expresses all in the simplest form.
His personality exhibits the extraordinary quality of braveness that helps him to speak the truth with conviction and courage. He touches the heart, he sings melody and he promotes freedom.
A collection of his Ghazal
s, Nazm
s, QuatAat, Rubaiyat
, Dohey etc. was published in 1981 in Naqeeb-e- Khudi. Another collection of his poetry that contains Hamds and Naats was appeared in 1999 in Dikr Hadi –o- Hidayat.
Sahir Hashmi was conferred the prestigious Hasrat Mohani Award for his contributions in Urdu poetry.
Sahir was deeply involved in social and cultural activities and was one of the vibrant intellectuals. He served All India Poonam Cultural Society, Kanpur as President and Adab-e Aaliya, Kanpur as Joint Secretary for several years. During his tenure, All India Poonam Cultural Society published more than 15 books on Urdu poetry and arranged hundreds of Mushairas, a few of those of national level.
He started Payam-e- Adab, an Urdu Magazine in 1947, which could not be continued during partition of India.
For poetry please refer to http://sarhashmi.wordpress.com
Urdu
Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...
-literature. His full name was Syed Mohammad Rasheed Hashmi. His poetry is special in the sense that it follows strictly the norms and standards laid by the great Urdu poets and legends but addresses the present day’s ambition, challenges, problems, feelings, passion, pain of a common man. He uses skillfully the idioms, the phrases, the traditional terminology and expresses all in the simplest form.
His personality exhibits the extraordinary quality of braveness that helps him to speak the truth with conviction and courage. He touches the heart, he sings melody and he promotes freedom.
A collection of his Ghazal
Ghazal
The ghazal is a poetic form consisting of rhyming couplets and a refrain, with each line sharing the same meter. A ghazal may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain. The form is ancient, originating in 6th century...
s, Nazm
Nazm
Urdu Nazm is a major part of the Urdu poetry, that is normally written in rhymed verse and also in modern prose style poems. Nazm has many different forms as,* Doha * Geet * Hamd * Hazal * Hijv...
s, QuatAat, Rubaiyat
Rubaiyat
"Rubāʿī" is Arabic for "quatrain", and is used to describe a Persian quatrain, or its derivative form in English and other languages. The plural form of the word, rubāʿiyāt ,often anglicised rubaiyat , is used to describe a collection of such quatrains.There are a number of possible rhyme schemes...
, Dohey etc. was published in 1981 in Naqeeb-e- Khudi. Another collection of his poetry that contains Hamds and Naats was appeared in 1999 in Dikr Hadi –o- Hidayat.
Sahir Hashmi was conferred the prestigious Hasrat Mohani Award for his contributions in Urdu poetry.
Sahir was deeply involved in social and cultural activities and was one of the vibrant intellectuals. He served All India Poonam Cultural Society, Kanpur as President and Adab-e Aaliya, Kanpur as Joint Secretary for several years. During his tenure, All India Poonam Cultural Society published more than 15 books on Urdu poetry and arranged hundreds of Mushairas, a few of those of national level.
He started Payam-e- Adab, an Urdu Magazine in 1947, which could not be continued during partition of India.
For poetry please refer to http://sarhashmi.wordpress.com