Sada Chirian Da Chamba: The Poignant Punjabi Folk Song for Rukhsati
Sada Chirian Da Chamba is a popular Punjabi folk song that is often sung at the Rukhsati event of Punjabi Weddings, which is the departure...
Category: Poetry شاعری
Faslon Ko Takalluf Hai Hum Se Agar: Naat by Qari Waheed Zafar
Faslon Ko Takalluf Hai Hum Se Agar by Qari Waheed Zafar: One of the greatest Naat Sharif Faslon Ko Takalluf Hai Hum Se Agar...
Tujh Ko Kitno Ka Lahoo Chahiye Ae Arz-e-Watan – Tina Sani Sings Faiz Ahmed Faiz
تجھ کو کتنوں کا لہو چاہیے اے ارضِ وطن جو ترے عارضِ بے رنگ کو گلنار کریں کتنی آہوں سے کلیجہ ترا ٹھنڈا ہوگا کتنے...
Musarrat Nazir: The First Diva of Pakistani Showbiz
Musarrat Nazir is considered one of the most authentic Punjabi vocalists, famed for her wedding songs that are more popular than ever even after...
Allama Iqbal on Karl Marx, Capitalism and Socialism
In the daily Zamindar of 23rd June 1923 an article of Shamsududin Hasan was published. The writer profusely quoted verses from Iqbal to...
Baal e Jibreel: The Greatest Book of Urdu Poetry Ever Written
Khudi is a concept that Allama Dr. Muhammad Iqbal mainly unleashed in his book Baal e Jibreel and Zarb-e-Kaleem, which remains our favourite compilations...
Chaapp Tilak Sab Cheeni: Hazrat Amir Khursu’s timeless masterpiece
Chaapp Tilak Sab Cheeni is considered as Hazrat Amir Khusru‘s most known Kalam which is basically a praise to his spiritual mentor Hazrat Nizamuddin...
Iqbal on Sufism: A Detailed Study
Iqbal was a Sufi and believed in the supremacy of Ishq over Intellect, the soul over the body. His father was a Sufi and...
Jagjit and Chitra Singh sing Mirza Asadullah Ghalib’s
Mirza Ghalib is considered as the most influential of classic Urdu poets. Although Kalam of Iqbal and Faiz remains fresh and contemprory, most of...
Allama Iqbal on Mansoor Hallaj: Iqbaliyaat
Allama Iqbal on Mansoor Hallaj: Iqbaliyaat Among the mystics of Islam, Mansur Hallaj is a controversial figure. He was executed In 922 for raising the...
Allama Iqbal visits Palestine
Allama Iqbal accompanied by Mautana Ghulam Rasul Mehr left Cairo for Palestine on the 5th December 1931 an 6 P.M. They reached Jerusalem on...
Plato: In words of Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal: The Story of Sheep and the Lion
Platon Plato was born in Athens in Greece in 427 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. Dismayed at the inequities of the Athenian...
A conversation with the Kashmiri poet Agha Shahid Ali
Calligraphy of Coils by Rehan Ansari and Rajinderpal S. Pal – A Conversation with the Kashmiri poet Agha Shahid Ali. If, as Edward Said says...
Armaghan-i-Hijaz (ارمغان حجاز) or Gift from Hijaz by Allama Iqbal
Armaghan-i-Hijaz (ارمغان حجاز) or Gift from Hijaz by Allama Iqbal was the last book of poetry by Allama Iqbal, which was published in November 1938, seven months...
Abdul Rahman Ka Boya Hua Khajoor Ka Darakht – Allama Iqbal’s Poem in Andalucia, Spain
Abdul Rahman I was the founder of a glorious Muslim caliphate in Andalucia, Spain. An Umayyad general who was overthrown in Damasucs by the Abbasids, he...
Philosophy of Iqbal: Analysis of Allama Iqbal’s poem Khizr-e-Rah
The poem ‘Khizr-e-Rah’ by Allama Iqbal describes his feelings and emotions about the Muslim nation as a whole, especially the youth. He is addressing them...
Iqbal’s Views On The Material And Spiritual Future Of Humanity – Dr. Javid Iqbal
IQBAL’S VIEWS ON THE MATERIAL AND SPIRITUAL FUTURE OF HUMANITY Dr. Javid Iqbal Iqbal’s world-view is based on his deep concern with the future...
Bulleh Ki Jaana Mai Kaun: Bulleh Shah’s Evergreen Punjabi Verses meets Voice of Rabbi Shergill
Na Mai Arabi Na Lahori Na Mai Hindi Sheher Nagori Na Hindu Na Turk Peshawri Bulleya! Ki Jaana Mai Kaun? English Translation Neither I am...
The Taste of Eid: Poem by Bina Shah
The Taste of Eid: Poem by Bina Shah The taste of this Eid was bittersweet On the one hand, the cloying sugar-burst of prepared dishes...
Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s Ghazal Gulon Mein Rang Bhare
گلوں میں رنگ بھرے باد نوبہار چلے چلے بھی آو کے گلشن کا کاروبار چلے قفس اداس ہے یارو صبا سے کچھ تو کہو کہیں...
American Amavasya – Poem by N Bajpai
American Amavasya – Poem by N Bajpai Winter They rush out to Dance in falling flakes Nor’easter blankets Monsoon madness Quietly Spring Trees open Tender...
Allama Iqbal letter to Atiya Faizi [Atiya Fyzee-Rahamin]
Excerpted and translated from: 101 Masterpieces of Allama Iqbal’s Letters. (Allama Iqbal kay 101 Shahkaar Khatoot); Compiled by Abdul Rabb Qurayshi [Beacon Books, Lahore,...
