who would be the urdu poet of the century?

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Re: who would be the urdu poet of the century?

@Code_Red

He was a thinker, a phillosopher an relligious propagater and a most of us get impressed by his pro-active religiously charged ideas and motivation …Although he himself is confused sometimes

Arjay uncle, please, be considerate about the grammar Codu uses. Thanks.

@Code_Red

at one place
Saarey jahaan se acha hindustaa.n hamara
hum bulbulain hain iski ye gulsitaan hamara

at another place
***In taza khudaoon main baRa sab se watan hai ***
***ju pairahan iska hai, wo mazhab ka qafan hai ***

Kia ye khula tazaad nahi hai ? (I sound like suhail wirraich )

Would you kindly ask your father this question ? and one more,
In his view who would be poet of century if we keep Iqbal out of the race.
thanks

Codu: do you know that Iqbal’s earlier poetry up until 1905 was very nationalistic and the approach was changed later… and more towards Islam… (One must read Iqbal properly to know all that! :)) If you open Baang-e-Dara for example, (provided you ever did)… you will notice how it is divided in different TIME SPANS and each span is reflective of his evolution towards the final thing that we picture Iqbal as now…

Where it starts with “Himaala”,

Aye Himaalaa, Aye Faseel-e-Kishwar-e-Hindustaan
Choomtaa hai jhuk kar teri peshaani ko aasmaaan

it ends with verses like

Masjid tau banaa dee shab bhar maiN imaaN kee haraarat waaloN naY
Munn apnaa puraanaa paapi hai, barsoN maiN namaazi bun naa sakaa

Arjay uncle: I would love to know what Jameel-ud-Deen Aali per-uncle has to say about it… I am sure his words will make us aware of situation much more…

PS: and do not mind Codu, he has a knack of changing topics to personalities than discussion.

PS 2: Codu, I regard Faiz on the second in if we keep Iqbal out… I would like to know Aali per-uncle’s opinion on that too…