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Name
  
Altaf Hali

Role
  
Poet

Died
  
1914, Panipat


A canvass drawing of Altaf Hussain Hali.

Books
  
Hayat-i-Javed, Voices of Silence: English Translation of Khwaja Altaf Hussain Hali's Majalis Un-nissa and Chup Ki Dad

Similar
  
Akbar Allahabadi, 
Pagal Adilabadi
, Zahid Abrol

Hai justaju ke khoob se hai khoobtar kahan maulana altaf hussain hali by sami un din baber


Altaf Hussain Hali (1837–30 September 1914) (Urdu: الطاف حسین حاؔلی‎ – Alṭāf Ḥusain Ḥālī), known with his honorifics as Maulana Khawaja Hali, was an Urdu poet and a writer.

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Altaf Hussain Hali


Writing

A poem written by Altaf Hussain Hali titled Kalma Go Mushrik.

The Indian rebellion of 1857 was an armed uprising in British India against the oppressive and destructive British colonial rule and was also popularly remembered as the 'First War of Independence'. This was a turning point in his life because he was an eye-witness to the catastrophe. Hali drifted from job to job for several years, arriving eventually in Lahore, where he came to be a personal servant of Chayanne Mehdi in the mid-1870s, where he began to compose his epic poem, the Musaddas e-Madd o-Jazr e-Islam ("An elegiac poem on the Ebb and Tide of Islam"), at the request of Syed Ahmed Khan, under the new pseudonym of Hali ("The Contemporary"). Hali also wrote one of the earliest works of literary criticism in Urdu, Muqaddamah-i Shay'r-o-Sha'iri. "Above all, its critical Preface 'the Muqaddima-i-Sher-o-Shairi' gave a new and purposeful trend to Urdu poetry and led the way to literary criticism in Urdu literature."

A poem written by Altaf Hussain Hali titled .

Some scholars of Pakistani nationalism also consider the Mussadas an important text for the articulation of a future Muslim nation, Pakistan, which eventually was created in 1947.

Works

A poem written by Altaf Hussain Hali titled Us Ke Jate Hi Ye Kya Ho Gai Ghar Ki Soorat.

  • A biography of Ghalib, Yaadgar-e-Ghalib - life and works of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib (1797-1869), a legendary Urdu language poet of the 19th-century
  • A biography of Saadi Shirazi, Hayat-e-Saadi - life and works of celebrated Persian language scholar and poet 'Saadi Shirazi' (1210-1292) of the 13th-century
  • A biography of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Hayat-e-Javed - life and works of a renowned educationist, scholar and social reformer 'Sir Syed Ahmed Khan' (1817-1898) of the 19th-century
  • Hali also wrote a poem "Barkha Rut"
  • "Woh Nabiyon Mein Rahmat Laqab Paanaywala", a naat written by Altaf Hussain Hali
  • Death and legacy

    A biography narrating the life of Altaf Hussain Hali during his death.

    Altaf Hussain Hali died in 1914. Pakistan Post issued a commemorative postage stamp in his honor on 23 March 1979 in its 'Pioneers of Freedom' series. "His great 'Musaddas' is one of the most inspiring poems in Urdu literature and had a lasting influence on the minds and attitudes of the Muslims in the sub-continent and continues to inspire them to this day."


    A poem written by Altaf Hussain Hali which translates to "He sorted out the ummah by making it a kafir. Islam is your idol."

    References

    Altaf Hussain Hali Wikipedia


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