Najm Afandi

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Najm Afandi
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Personal
Born
Mirza Tajammul Hussain

1893[citation needed]
Died1975 (82 years)[citation needed]
Resting placeSakhi Hassan-GraveYard
ReligionIslam
NationalityIndian, Pakistani
EthnicityIndian
Main interest(s)Religious Poetry (Marsiya, Noha)
Notable work(s)Noha: 'Aey Waey Nahre Alqama' 'Raaj dulara Zehra ka' Books: Kainat-e-Najm, Khosha e Anjum, Huan Najm, Rubaiyat Najam Afandi
OccupationPoet, writer
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Najm Afandi (1893–1975) نجم آفندی was an Urdu poet in India.

Life[edit]

Najm Afandi was born in Agra, India in 1893. His father Bazm Afandi was also a poet.[1]

He moved to Hyderabad, Deccan.[citation needed] He started writing poetry early in his life and continued for 65 years.[citation needed]

His nazm durr-e-yateem was popular, which he wrote while he was only 15 or 16 years of age.[citation needed] He experimented with various genres of Urdu poetry.[citation needed] Najm had in the later part of his life dedicated himself to writing marsiya, salaam, manqabat and qasida.[citation needed]

Although he wrote numerous ghazals and nazms, because of the religious nature of his poetry and the issues he dealt with, he was known as 'Shair-e-Ahle-bait.'[citation needed]

Work and Career[edit]

Long before the Progressive Writers Movement came into existence his poetry dealt with the issues and themes which were the hallmark of the movement.[citation needed]

He published five collections of poetry; Mah-e-Wafa, Iqbal-e-Wafa, Jamal-e-Wafa, Ilham-e-Wafa, and he had noted the name of Najm Afandi and Haider Dehlvi as his teachers in each one of them.[citation needed]

He influenced generation of poets who adopted marsia, salam, qasida and other similar genres of poetry in Urdu.[citation needed]

Death[edit]

He died naturally in 1975 in Karachi and is buried at the infamous Sakhi Hassan Graveyard, North Nazimabad.[citation needed]

References[edit]

  1. "COLUMN: The art of marsiya". www.dawn.com. 2 November 2014. Retrieved 24 October 2015.

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