12th International Urdu Conference
Zubair Yaqoob
Karachi
The third session of the 2nd day of 12th international Urdu Conference opened with the discussion on ‘An analysis of Nahat in modern times’.
The session chaired by Iftikhar Arif, Theseen Faraqi and Halal Naqvi and discussant were Aziz Ahsan, Farasat Rizvi, and Tahir Sultani. Famous poet Iftikhar Arif said that Nahat should be judged on the standards of literature if someone is writing Nahat for the sake of reward but this cannot be considered in the literature.
If we collect all the poetry on Prophet PUBH it will be as much as the poetry in Urdu, but some people have to make it business and those who were writing the real Nahat left in darkness without any consideration. He said that Iqbal was one of the greatest poets of writing Nahat, he did a lot of work on Nahat and no one else did so. Writing a Nahat not only demanding knowledge but respect and belief as well. Nahat doesn’t belong to any sector group or religious people it is universal. Nahat is as like as other poetries.
The very first poet of the Nahat was Hazrat Abu Talib the uncle of Prophet Muhammad PUBH and it continues since that. In modern times, many people have been done their Ph.D. on Nahat. Aziz Ahsan read his paper on ‘Modern Urdu Naat – Topics and limitations’. He said that without the Prophet PUBH the universe cannot have any existence, Poetry was famous in Arab and they started it since then Nahat is alive.
