SABEEH Rahmani seemed a bit disappointed and perturbed at the Karachi Arts Council’s recently held International Urdu Conference and he had reasons to be so. He was speaking during the session on naat ...

KARACHI: Poets who compose naat try to express their love and admiration for the Holy Prophet (pbuh). However, they should make sure that the verses they write in naat have literary standards. Poet ...

Hamd is a poetic genre that exclusively praises Allah. The word hamd comes from Arabic root ‘h,m,d’ and it literally means to praise. The Arabic word Muhammad is also derived from the same root and ...