Aside from masnavis, hamd is traceable to the earliest pieces of Urdu poetry, especially written in the Deccani and Gujari varieties of Urdu, writes Sabeeh Rahmani in the intro to the book that he ...

Malamat’ --- Aftab Ahmad Shah’s poetic divan2. ‘Hamzad’ ------ Tauqir Ahmad Faiq’s verse collection Poets (late) Aftab ...

Hamd and naat are two rich genres of poetry in which a poet praises God Almight and Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) respectively. Urdu language had the greatest corpus of naat, Arif said. He added that ...