Sir Muhammad Iqbal (Urdu: محمد اقبال) (9 November 1877 – 21 April 1938), widely known as Allama Iqbal (علامہ اقبال), was an academic, poet, barrister, philosopher, and politician in British India who is widely regarded as having inspired the Pakistan Movement. He is considered one of the most important figures in Urdu literature, with literary work in both the Urdu and Persian languages...
Allama Muhammad Iqbal
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Abul Kalam Muhiyuddin Ahmed Azad (Urdu: ابو الکلام محی الدین احمد آزاد Abul Kalam Azad; 11 November 1888 – 22 February 1958) was an Indian scholar and a senior political leader of the Indian independence movement. Following India's independence, he became the first Minister of Education in the Indian government. In 1992 he was posthumously awarded India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna...
Ahmad Faraz
Ahmed Faraz (Urdu: احمد فراز, born Syed Ahmed Shah (Urdu: سید احمد شاہ) on 12 January 1931[1] in Kohat, died 25 August 2008) was a Pakistani Urdu poet. He was acclaimed one of the modern Urdu poets of the last century. 'Faraz' is his pen name, (in Urdu takhalus). He died in Islamabad on 25 August 2008. He was awarded Hilal-e-Imtiaz, Sitara-i-Imtiaz and after his death Hilal-e-Pakistan by the government...
Ada Jafri
Ada Jafarey, often spelt Ada Jafri (22 August 1924 – 12 March 2015), was a Pakistani poet who is regarded as the first major Urdu poet who published as a woman and had been called "The First Lady of Urdu Poetry". She was also an author and was considered a prominent figure in contemporary Urdu literature. She had received awards from Pakistan Writers' Guild, the Government of Pakistan and literary societies of North...
Akbar Allahabadi
Akbar Hussain Rizvi, popularly known as Akbar Allahabadi (Urdu: اكبر الہ آبادی ) (October, 1846 ; 15 February 1921), was an Indian Urdu poet...
Daagh Dehlvi
Daagh Dehlvi (Urdu: داغ دہلوی) born Nawab Mirza Khan (Urdu: نواب مرزا خان) (25 May 1831 – 17 March 1905) was an outstanding poet famous for his Urdu ghazals and belonged to the old Delhischool of Urdu poetry. He wrote romantic and sensuous poems and ghazals in simple and chaste Urdu, minimising usage of Persian words. He laid great emphasis on the Urdu idiom and its usage. He wrote under the takhallus (Urdu word for nom de plume) Daagh Dehlvi...
Ehsan Danish
Ehsan Danish (Urdu: احسان دانش — Eḥsān Dāniš, 1914—1982), born Ehsan-ul-Haq (Urdu: احسان اُلحق — Eḥsān-ul-Ḥaq), was a prominent Urdu poet from the Indian subcontinent. At the beginning of his career his poetry was very romantic but later he wrote his poems more for the labourers and came to be called "Šāʿir-e Mazdūr" (Poet of the workmen) by his audience. His poetry inspired the common people’s feelings and he has been compared with Josh Malihabadi...
Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Faiz Ahmad Faiz (Urdu: فیض احمد فیض , born 13 February 1911 – 20 November 1984), MBE, NI, Lenin Peace Prize was an influential left-wing intellectual, revolutionary poet, and one of the most highly-regarded poets of the Urdu language, having been nominated four times for the Nobel Prize for literature. Faiz also wrote poetry in thePunjabi language. A notable member of the Progressive Writers' Movement (PWM), Faiz was an avowed Marxist, for which...
Habib Jalib
Habib Jalib (Urdu: حبیب جالب) was a Pakistani revolutionary poet, left-wing activist and politician who opposed martial law, authoritarianism and state oppression...
Haider Ali Aatish
Khwaja Haider Ali Aatish (1778–1848) (Urdu:خواجہ حیدر علی آتش ) of Lucknow was an Urdu poet. Khwaja Haider Ali Aatish Lakhnawi is one of the giants of Urdu Literature. Aatish and Imam Baksh Nasikh were contemporary poets whose rivalry is well-known. Both had hundreds of disciples...
Jigar Moradabadi
Jigar Moradabadi (Urdu: جِگر مُرادآبادی), was the Pen Name of Ali Sikandar (1890–1960), one of the most famous Urdu poets of the 20th century and a celebrated Urdu ghazal writer.
He received the Sahitya AkademiAward in 1958 for his highly acclaimed poetry collection "Atish-i-Gul"...
Jon Elia
Jaun Elia (Urdu: جون ایلیا, 14 December 1931 – 8 November 2002) was a Pakistani Urdu-language poet, philosopher, biographer, and scholar. He was the brother of journalist and psychoanalyst Rais Amrohvi and journalist and philosopher Syed Muhammad Taqi, and husband of columnist Zahida Hina. He was fluent in Arabic, English, Persian,
Sanskrit and Hebrew...
Josh Malihabadi
Josh Malihabadi (Urdu: جوش ملیح آبادی) (born as Shabbir Hasan Khan; شبیر حسن خان)
(5 December 1894 – 22 February 1982) was a Pakistani poet. He was an Indian citizen until 1958, when he emigrated to Pakistan and became a Pakistani citizen. He wrote ghazals,
nazm and Marsias under the takhallus (Urdu for Pen Name) Josh(جوش) (literally, "Passion" or "Intensity")...
Khwaja Mir Dard
Khwaja Mir Dard (Urdu: خواجہ میر درد) was born in 1721 and died in 1785. He is one of the three major poets of the Delhi School — the other two being Mir Taqi Mir and Mirza Sauda — who are considered the pillars of the classical Urdu ghazal...
Mir Baber Ali Anis
Mir Baber Ali Anees (Urdu: میر ببر علی انیس) was an Urdu poet, born in 1802 in Faizabad, Oudh now in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and died in 1874 in Lucknow, North-Western Provinces. Anis used Persian, Hindi,Arabic, and Sanskrit words fluently in his poetry, and such quality distinguished him from his fellows. Anis wrote prolonged Marsias, which was a custom of his times, but nowadays only selected sections were narrated even in thereligious ceremonies...
Mohsin Naqvi
Mohsin Naqvi (1947−1996) was a renowned Pakistani poet. Naqvi was born on 5 May 1947 in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan. His father Syed Chirag Hussain, was a saddlemaker and later worked as a food vendor. His parents had named him 'Ghulam Abbas' which he later changed to Ghulam Abbas Mohsin Naqvi. Naqvi had six siblings.Naqvi graduated from Government CollegeMultan and earned his masters degree from the University of the Punjab, Lahore...
Momin Khan Momin
Momin Khan Momin (1800–1851) (Urdu: مؤمن خان مؤمنؔ —Moʾmin Xān Moʾmin) was a Mughal era poet known for hisUrdu ghazals and used "Momin" as his taxalluṣ (the Urdu word for nom de plume). He was a contemporary of Mirza Ghalib and Zauq, today his grave lies near the parking area near Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi...
Mirza Ghalib
Ghalib (Urdu: غاؔلب) born Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan (Urdu: مرزا اسد اللہ بیگ خان), on 27 December 1797 – died 15 February 1869), was the preeminent Indian Urdu and Persian-language poet during the last years of the Mughal Empire. He used his pen-names of Ghalib (Urdu: غالب, ġhālib means "dominant") and Asad (Urdu: اسد,Asad means "lion"). His honorific was Dabir-ul-Mulk...
Qateel Shifai
Muhammad Aurangzeb or Qateel Shifai (24 December 1919 - 11 July 2001) (Urdu: قتیل شفا ئی ) was a Pakistani Urdu poet. Qateel Shifai was born as Muhammad Aurangzeb in 1919 in British India (now Pakistan)...
Muhammad Akhtar (Born Muhammad Akhtar محمد اختر ) (1974–1928) (Pseudonym Saghar Siddiqui Urdu:ساغر صدیقی) was an Urdu poet from Pakistan. In spite of his ruined and homeless alone life, he remained famous and successful till and after his death. Saghar is also known as a saint and when he died, he left nothing but a pet, his dog, who also died on the same foot path where Saghar died a year later...
Sagar Siddiqui
Wasi Shah
Syed Wasi Shah (Urdu:Born: 1976, Sargodha) Wasi Shah is Asian Great Urdu poet from Punjab Pakistan. He is wellknown famous and most favorite of teens college girls all age of guys and all teacher professor well educated persons.
Wasi Shah’s poetry books include “Mujhe Sandal Ker do” and his nazams include “Kash main tere Haseen Hathon ka Kangan Hota”. “Aankhein bheeg jaati hain”. and many more nice potry. He is very great and well mannered person, Asian Pakistani are proude of him...
