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 ...

the Urdu poet has always spoken for qaumi yakjahati and muttahida tehzeeb, on communal harmony and co-mingling of cultures. The search yielded delightful results. I found vast amounts of poetry ...

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 ...

In criminal proceedings qit’at besides a Hamd and a marsiya ... is like a fresh and fragrant gust of wind in the realm of Urdu poetry that serves to distinguish him amongst his contemporaries.